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</font><font size=7><b>Israelis Win Contract <br>
To Secure US Borders<br>
</b></font><font size=4>By Christopher Bollyn <br>
American Free Press<br>
10-5-6<br><br></font><font size=3> </font><font size=4>On Sept. 21,
Michael Chertoff, the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security
(DHS), announced that a consortium headed by the Chicago-based Boeing
Company had won a multi-billion dollar contract to install sensors and
radar along the U.S. border. The deal, the first part of a
multibillion-dollar government plan designed to reduce illegal entry
along the Canadian and Mexican borders calls for cameras, sensors and
even unmanned planes.</font><font size=3> </font><font size=4>When
Chertoff was asked why DHS had chosen the Boeing-led group he declined to
comment. The reason for Chertoff's silence, however, is telling: the
Boeing team includes an Israeli military subcontractor which will play a
key role in "securing" the U.S. border.</font><font size=3>
</font><font size=4>Of interest is the fact that Chertoff's
Israeli mother played a key role in creating that country in its
infancy.</font><font size=3> </font><font size=4>The Boeing team,
which will implement the DHS program called the Secure Border Initiative
(SBI) along the northern and southern borders of the United States,
includes a Merrimack, N.H.-based surveillance technology firm called
Kollsman Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Elbit Systems Ltd. of Haifa,
Israel.</font><font size=3> </font><font size=4>The
Israeli-American team includes Unisys Corp., DRS Technologies Inc., L-3
Communications Holdings Inc., Lucent Technologies Inc., Perot Systems
Corp. and the Israeli-owned Kollsman, which makes the thermo-imaging
cameras used to monitor Israel's borders.</font><font size=3>
</font><font size=4>As Chertoff announced the awarding of the contract,
estimated to be worth some $2.5 billion, he was giving a very lucrative
and sensitive contract to an Israeli company with close ties to the
Israeli military. The contract reportedly does not have a set value.
Payments will be announced as parts for the system are
ordered.</font><font size=3> </font><font size=4>The work
will be done in phases, with the first piece being a 28-mile stretch near
Tucson, Ariz., Chertoff said. This first phase will cost $67 million, he
said. Boeing's proposal includes some 1,800 towers along the borders with
cameras developed by Israel's Elbit Systems Ltd. which can reportedly
spot people up to 9 miles away.</font><font size=3>
</font><font size=4>Elbit Systems says it is "the prime contractor
and systems integrator for the Israel Police Border Control System, a
computerized system for registration and control deployed at every
Israeli border crossing.</font><font size=3>
</font><font size=4>"Elbit Systems has developed and integrated
multi-layered solutions incorporating cutting-edge biometrics, optical ID
and RFID [radio frequency identification] technologies. Our perimeter
security solutions have also been adapted for energy infrastructures and
offshore installations," the company's web site
says.</font><font size=3> </font><font size=4>"We are looking
at a technology that is advanced and can pick a face in the crowd,"
Wayne Esser, capture team leader of the Boeing team, told Washington
Technology.</font><font size=3> </font><font size=4>Elbit provides
Israel's military with a border security surveillance system with
integrated sensors, radars, a "smart fence" and
cameras.</font><font size=3> </font><font size=4>TIES TO ISRAELI
INTELLIGENCE</font><font size=3> </font><font size=4>Kollsman is
not the only player on the Boeing team with ties to Israeli military
intelligence. As AFP has reported previously, Unisys Corp., chaired by
Lawrence A. Weinbach, has integrated Israeli security software into the
computer products it sells to the U.S. government and other clients.
Software from Check Point Software Technologies of Ramat Gan, Israel, for
example, is integrated into Unisys products.</font><font size=3>
</font><font size=4>Elbit Systems is directed by a high-level
board that is comprised of former Israeli major generals, colonels,
ambassadors, and former chiefs of Israel's largest banks and companies.
The company's only non-Israeli director on its board of 18 members is
Timothy Taylor, the British-born president and CEO of Elbit Systems of
America. Taylor speaks to the U.S. media for the Israeli-owned company
while the former Israeli fighter pilots and generals run the company from
Haifa.</font><font size=3> </font><font size=4>SBI is a Chertoff
initiative that is meant to be "a comprehensive plan to control our
borders and stem the flow of illegal immigration. "What we are
looking to do is build a virtual fence," Chertoff said. "We
want to know when anybody or anything is crossing the
border."</font><font size=3> </font><font size=4>While the
Israeli press was quick to report that an Israeli company was part of the
SBI border security program, Chertoff failed to mention it. "Elbit
System's subsidiary Kollsman announced it would supply technology to
identify threats, deter and prevent crossings, and apprehend intruders
along U.S. borders," Israeli daily Ha'aretz
reported.</font><font size=3> </font><font size=4>Huntleigh
U.S.A., another Israeli-owned security company, provided passenger
screening at Boston's Logan Airport on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001.
Huntleigh, which is wholly owned by the Israeli company International
Consultants on Targeted Security (ICTS) apparently failed to intercept
the Arab terrorists who hijacked the two planes that hit the World Trade
Center, according to the government version. Now, the same administration
that failed to stop the terror attacks of 9-11 is hiring an Israeli-owned
company to help protect the entire U.S. land border.</font><font size=3>
</font><font size=4>Christopher Bollyn is a much-traveled
international journalist currently based in Chicago, serving as Midwest
bureau chief for American Free Press. He has written extensively on a
wide variety of subjects including the controversy surrounding
computerized voting systems, the Arab-Israeli conflict and the many
unanswered questions surrounding the 9-11 terrorist
attacks.</font><font size=3> </font><font size=4>Lest we forget -
Israeli security companies had the contracts for the security at the
airports where the alleged 'Arab terrorists' were allowed to pass through
to board the 911 flights. -ed<br>
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