![]() ![]() ![]() "You got a group of guys that are taking pictures, on top of a roof, of the World Trade Center. Steven Gordon, the attorney for the five Israeli detainees, acknowledged that his clients' actions on Sept. The owner had also cleared out of his New Jersey home, put it up for sale and returned with his family to Israel. Cell phones were lying around office phones were still connected and the property of dozens of clients remained in the warehouse. Three months later 2020's cameras photographed the inside of Urban Moving, and it looked as if the business had been shut down in a big hurry. But when FBI agents tried to interview him again a few days later, he was gone. His attorney insists that his client answered all of the FBI's questions. The FBI also questioned Urban Moving's owner. The FBI searched Urban Moving's offices for several hours, removing boxes of documents and a dozen computer hard drives. One reason for the shift, sources told ABCNEWS, was that the FBI believed Urban Moving may have been providing cover for an Israeli intelligence operation.Īfter the five men were arrested, the FBI got a warrant and searched Urban Moving's Weehawken, N.J., offices. When the men were transferred to jail, the case was transferred out of the FBI's Criminal Division, and into the bureau's Foreign Counterintelligence Section, which is responsible for espionage cases, ABCNEWS has learned. The Palestinians are the problem." The other passengers were his brother Paul Kurzberg, Yaron Shmuel, Oded Ellner and Omer Marmari. The driver of the van, Sivan Kurzberg, told the officers, "We are Israeli. But perhaps the biggest surprise for the officers came when the five men identified themselves as Israeli citizens.Īccording to the police report, one of the passengers told the officers they had been on the West Side Highway in Manhattan "during the incident" - referring to the World Trade Center attack. Another was carrying two foreign passports. One of the passengers had $4,700 in cash hidden in his sock. The arresting officers said they saw a lot that aroused their suspicion about the men. The men were taken out of the van at gunpoint and handcuffed by police. ![]() A police officer pulled the van over, finding five men, between 22 and 27 years old, in the vehicle. 11, the van was spotted on a service road off Route 3, near New Jersey's Giants Stadium. The plate number was traced to a van owned by a company called Urban Moving. Before long, the FBI was also on the scene, and a statewide bulletin was issued on the van. She found the behavior so suspicious that she wrote down the license plate number of the van and called the police. I thought it was very strange," she said. "They were like happy, you know … They didn't look shocked to me. What struck Maria were the expressions on the men's faces. The men were taking video or photos of themselves with the World Trade Center burning in the background, she said. "They seemed to be taking a movie," Maria said. Maria says she saw three young men kneeling on the roof of a white van in the parking lot of her apartment building. But as she watched the disaster, something else caught her eye. ![]() She grabbed her binoculars and watched the destruction unfolding in lower Manhattan. She remembers a neighbor calling her shortly after the first plane hit the towers. Maria, who asked us not to use her last name, had a view of the World Trade Center from her New Jersey apartment building. But a New Jersey homemaker saw something that morning that prompted an investigation into five young Israelis and their possible connection to Israeli intelligence. J- Millions saw the horrific images of the World Trade Center attacks, and those who saw them won't forget them. ![]()
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