Yes. Moghrabi, I suspected that much.
The U.S. has very few linquists or translators. Israel is playing a huge part in this war because they have the language skills required.
Israelis Trained US Troops in Jenin-style Urban Warfare
By Justin Huggler
March 29, 2003
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0329-07.htm
Israels involvement in Iraq: Torture and Petroleum
Israeli experts in torture have taken part in the torture of the Iraqi prisoners in Abu Ghraib Jail
May 21, 2004
http://s023.dyndns.org/kawther/K20040519A.html#Update_21.05.2004
Israel's Battle in Fallujah
By Rashid Khashana
November 22, 2004
http://english.daralhayat.com/opini...1bf698-c0a8-10ed-002f-992445bfcb5c/story.html
Israelis 'using Kurds to build power base'
By Gary Younge
June 21, 2004
http://www.antiwar.com/blog/index.php?id=P1067
Report: Israel operating hundreds of agents in northern Iraq
By Nathan Guttman
June 21, 2004
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/...1&subContrassID=5&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y
Israeli Interrogator at Abu Ghraib Prison Claim on BBC
July 3, 2004
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=3158747
Israeli interrogators in Iraq
July 07, 2004
http://www.janes.com/security/international_security/news/fr/fr040707_1_n.shtml
Israeli Company to Supply Fuel to US Army in Iraq
February 24, 2004
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=58458
Israel is using Iraqi Kurdistan to spy on Iran and Syria
October 03, 2004
http://www.aljazeera.com/cgi-bin/conspiracy_theory/fullstory.asp?id=162
Israeli intelligence helped creating the fake Iraqi threat
September 19, 2004
http://www.aljazeera.com/cgi-bin/conspiracy_theory/fullstory.asp?id=160
I found this story some time ago. I don't have the link, so I need to post the complete story.
Israeli Business Invasion Into Iraq
By Sharaga Elam
The Israeli daily Ma'ariv reported on April 2, 2004 on a wide scale Israeli
business invasion into Iraq. 70-100 Israeli firms have been storming Iraq over
the last year. "Most of them do not like to speak about it," writes Ma'ariv.
"[They export] Beer, phones, textiles, electronics, buses, bullet-proof vests,
shielded vehicles, everything goes, even fuel. What are the Jordanians doing?
Mediating. The Iraqis? - Buying. The Americans? - Closing their eyes. It is no wonder that in Baghdad rumours circulate that the Israelis, including a former chief of staff, have bought already half of Iraq."
The first shot for this invasion came on July 21, 2003 when Israeli finance
minister Benyamin Netanyahu signed an authorization enabling Israel to trade
with Iraq, according to the Trade with the Enemy Ordinance, pursuant to which Iraq shall not be considered anymore an enemy nation.
In the Israeli official announcement one can read: "Minister Netanyahu signed
the Ordinance amendment after meeting with numerous business people who
expressed their willingness to conduct commercial relations with Iraq, while
presenting the inherent business potential."
This step was conceived skeptically in Washington as it seems capable of
corroborating the views emphasizing the role of Israel and its US lobby in
pushing America towards the Iraq war.
Five months after Netanyahu's declaration, the US published the name of the
states allowed to tender a bid for the reconstruction of Iraq. Though it
supported the war, Israel was missing on this list in order not to annoy and
embarrass Arab countries and especially the Iraqis.
Notwithstanding the impression that Washington tries to create, Israelis are
allowed to participate as sub-contractors in the reconstruction work. This was confirmed by the media officer of the US Program Management Office (PMO) in Iraq, Bruce Cole, in an e-mail to Ma'ariv. "Israeli companies," he wrote, "may act as sub-contractors in construction tenders and are allowed to win tenders for supplying services and equipments."
The Iraqi businessmen dealing with the Israelis are aware in many cases of the identity of their counterparts, but of course not the Iraqi public, who is very hostile towards such developments. Some of the goods, like used cars, are sent to Jordan, where they are stripped from anything that might identify them as originating in Israel. In one case, 1,500 air conditioners still had some
inscriptions in Hebrew and the Jordanian competitors were quick to make public this marketing mistake. The whole shipment had then to be withdrawn and caused heavy losses for the Israeli investors and the cancellation of another project.
Netafim, which makes drip irrigation systems, already sold its smart products
to Iraq during Saddam Hussein's era and naturally hope now to extend its
activities in this country.
Some other Israeli commodities sold are used buses of the Tel Aviv bus company Dan, or bullet-proof vests worth $ 12 million dollars (US) produced by Rabintex, which in 1991-2 had already sold special fire-retardant clothings to Iran. The Israeli defence ministry claims that Rabintex products and that of another company are sold only to the coalition forces in Iraq. These forces are supplied with fuel through the Israeli company Sonol as part of a $70 million contract.
Transclal Trade LTD, logistic services filed the first bill of lading to Iraq
in August 3, 2003; the content of this consignment: 9 tons of electronics and
other consumption goods. Another Israeli transportation company, Agish reports about some 20-30 shipments to Iraq and Ma'ariv estimates the value of goods transported to Iraq through Israel in the last year at $40 million (US). The volume of shipments should increase, considering the expected closing of the Syrian sea ports for traffic to Iraq. In this case the Israeli ports will be of more importance.
Most of the Israeli transportation companies cooperate with Jordanian firms,
who collect the goods at the border between the two countries, and then repack them in order to erase any Israeli traces.
Some of the Israeli companies, writes Ma'ariv, wishing to be active in Iraq,
joined US, European or Arab companies in order to make bids as sub contractors for the real big money by the tenders of the US army and coalition provisional authority.
Ma'ariv estimates, for example, that some 15 Israel companies succeeded in
getting fat Iraqi contracts from Bechtel, who on its side won orders in the
value of billions of US dollars. The procedure, according to an involved
Israeli businessman, is very far from good administration, as the US Defense
Department is not accustomed to manage a country. The Israeli companies who succeed in getting the closed tenders are those who possess excellent US connections.
A list of Israeli companies active in Iraq:
The bus company Dan (used buses)
Rabintex ( bullet-proof vests)
Shirionit Hosem (security doors)
Etz Carmiel (doors and other wood products for border posts)
Tambour (paints)
Tempo (beer and other drinks)
Tami 4 (Water-purifying application)
Trellidor (folding bars)
Tanurgaz (kitchens)
Iridium Israel (mobile satellite communication services)
Sakal (electronic products)
Naan Dan(irrigation equipment)
Sonol (fuel)
In the course of the past year, a new belief has emerged in the town: the
belief in war against Iraq. That ardent faith was disseminated by a small group of 25 or 30 neoconservatives, almost all of them Jewish, almost all of them intellectuals.
A partial list: Richard Perle, Paul Wolfowitz, Douglas Feith,
William Kristol, Eliot Abrams, Charles Krauthammer.
