Our Purpose Was to Document the Event

our purpose was to document the event

Caption: JOE RAEDLE GETTY IMAGES ON A MISSION Mural of a plane crashing into a building can be seen in background as Marines from Task Force Tarawa search for enemy troops at an Iraqi military headquarters in Nassiriya yesterday.

Weehawken headquarters of Urban Moving Systems at 3 W. 18th St.

An employee of Urban Moving Systems, who would not give his name, said the majority of his co-workers are Israelis and were joking on the day of the attacks.

"I was in tears," the man said. "These guys were joking and that bothered me. These guys were like, Now America knows what we go through."

Three individuals with van were seen celebrating after initial impact and subsequent explosion." sounds too early GUART, AL. New York Post; New York, N.Y. [New York, N.Y]13 Sep 2001: 012.

9/11 Dancing Israelis and Urban Moving Systems - ABC News 20/20 preview, June 21, 2002

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOiCMMMeXE8

Here it’s suggested that saying “our purpose was to document the event” while the audience was packed with military.. Does anyone have a copy of the show?

Sounds like an intelligence mission with the words "our purpose" and "document the event"

The video and photos might show a pre 9/11 Tower without smoke or an event.. Photos do exist of smoke free towers..  

She found the behavior so suspicious that she wrote down the license plate number of the van and called the police. Before long, the FBI was also on the scene, and a statewide bulletin was issued on the van. 

The plate number was traced to a van owned by a company called Urban Moving (Systems) . Around 4 p.m. on Sept. 11, the van was spotted on a service road off Route 3, near New Jersey's Giants Stadium. A police officer pulled the van over, finding five men, between 22 and 27 years old, in the vehicle. The men were taken out of the van at gunpoint and handcuffed by police. 
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A search of "Urban Moving Systems" on the Internet turned up some chilling information. [Rick Martin] was shocked to read details in several New York and New Jersey newspapers that described two groups of Israelis that were stopped and arrested in vans belonging to Urban Moving Systems. Witnesses took down their license plates after the movers were seen videotaping and cheering the attacks on the World Trade Center towers.PR Newswire; New York [New York]29 Nov 2001: 1.
Other allegations involved Israelis claiming to be art students who had backgrounds in signal interception and ordnance. (See related story, Page 8.In fact, he said, the nature of the investigation changed after the names of two of the five Israelis showed up on a CIA-FBI database of foreign intelligence operatives, he said. At that point, he said, the bureau took control of the investigation and launched a Foreign Counterintelligence Investigation, or FCI.
 FBI concluded that at least two of them were in fact Mossad operatives
The FBI questioned Mr. Suter once. However, he left the country afterward and went back to Israel before further questioning. Mr. Suter declined through his lawyer to be interviewed for this article.

After they returned to Israel at the end of November, the five men told local media that they were kept in solitary confinement, beaten, deprived of food and questioned while blindfolded and in their underwear.

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Galloway, Jim. The Atlanta Journal the Atlanta Constitution; Atlanta, Ga. [Atlanta, Ga] 18 Nov 2001: A.15.

At noon Sept. 12, [Roy Barak] and his partner, 25-year-old Motti Butbul, were blue-lighted by a patrol car and pulled into a rest stop. The formal charges were minor: a broken turn signal, a missing fire extinguisher and the fact that Barak had overstayed his six-month visa. Butbul also had no work permit.

Barak, an ex-paratrooper, got a job with Urban Moving Systems of Weehawken, N.J., in the summer of 2000. Starting pay was $7 an hour, plus tips. Mostly Barak stayed east. He saw Miami, delivered furniture to Atlanta and drove by Graceland in Memphis.

Barak thinks it was his past as a paratrooper that triggered suspicions. Barak's cohort had been a cook and was not questioned nearly as intensely, Barak said. Butbul declined to be interviewed.

Angry witnesses had seen the five at a waterfront park in New Jersey apparently laughing, clowning and photographing themselves in front of the burning towers.

Barak had no way of knowing the arrested men were his friends, Israelis working for the same moving company. But he found out quickly.

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LISBERG, ADAM. The Record; Bergen County, N.J. [Bergen County, N.J]15 Sep 2001: A01

 Thunderbird Motel, looking for clues about the boardwalk artisan known as the "rice man." 

Two men aboard the American Airlines flight that crashed into the World Trade Center, Mohamed Atta and Abdulaziz Alomari, were believed to be carrying New Jersey driver's licenses days earlier, said the governor of Maine, where the men apparently lived for some time. Maine Florida?

What happened to Florida?

 Saeed Alghamdi began renting an apartment there in 1991, but it was unclear when he moved onHearthwood Village apartment complex off Columbia Turnpike,

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JAMES RISEN and DON VAN NATTA Jr.Author Information. New York Times, Late Edition (East Coast); New York, N.Y. [New York,

They said Mr. Atta arrived from Maine at Logan International Airport in Boston,

 Sherri Evanina, a F.B.I. spokeswoman in Newark, said five men were detained late Tuesday after the van in which they were driving was stopped on Route 3 in East Rutherford.

She said witnesses had reported seeing the men celebrating the attack on the World Trade Center earlier in the day in Union City.

Angry witnesses reported the men's license plate to the authorities. The plate was registered to Urban Moving Systems, a truck-rental company based in Weehawken, N.J., Ms. Evanina said.

The five men were detained on administrative grounds by the immigration service, officials said. No criminal charges have been filed against them.

Dominik Suter, the owner of Urban Moving Systems, did not return telephone messages left at his office. A woman who answered the phone at the company's offices, but would not give her name, said, ''We have no comment.''

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Saudi diplomat Ahmed Alshehri, based in Bombay, denied that he was the father of both Waleed and Wail Alshehri,Chief Michael Chitwood said yesterday that police and the FBI combed the city's Jetport parking lot before dawn Wednesday until they found the metallic blue rental Nissan Altima driven by [Abdulaziz Alomari] and [Mohamed Atta]Doric resident saw five men in the area of the apartment building, which had a good view of the World Trade Center, either taking photos or videotaping scenes from across the river shortly after the attack

Tucker said investigators across the country have conducted "hundreds of interviews." The first formal arrest came Friday, when a man was stopped at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport for having a false pilot's license.

Tucker said a second arrest warrant was issued yesterday and the suspect taken into custody in New York. Officials declined to name either witness and said the records were sealed.

black boxes," but the recorders on the jets that crashed into the Pentagon and into rural Pennsylvania were badly damaged, Tucker said, and are being returned to the manufacturer in hopes that some data can be retrieved