Israeli Teenager Arrested Over Phone Threats To Jewish Community Centers
by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
Mar 23, 2017
Three weeks after we reported that a St. Louis man, Juan Thompson – a former Intercept reporter and staunch Bernie Sanders supporter – was arrested in connection with at least eight of the dozens of bomb threats made against Jewish organizations across the country, an effort which many described as a “false flag” attempt to implicate and blame “anti-semitic” Trump supporters, today the NYT reported that police arrested an Israeli teenager with dual US-Israeli citizenship in further connection with scores of threats to Jewish institutions, including dozens of community centers in the United States, law enforcement officials said.
A spokesman for the Israeli police Micky Rosenfeld, said the suspect, from the Ashkelon area of southern Israel, had also made threats to institutions in Australia and New Zealand, as well as to at least one commercial airline flight, forcing an emergency landing. “This is the guy we are talking about,” Mr. Rosenfeld said.
Israeli authorities did not immediately identify the teenager, who they said was Jewish and 19. was expected to appear in court later Thursday. The suspect’s motives were not immediately clear although another instance of attempt to instigate a “false flag” reaction appears the most likely explanation; he was being questioned by the international investigations unit of the Israeli police.
As the NYT adds, the inquiry was complicated by what the authorities described as the suspect’s use of “advanced camouflage technologies” to try to cover up his communications, which he made through the internet. When the Israeli police searched the suspect’s house, investigators confiscated computers, an antenna and other equipment.
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