Israeli Company Workers
Were Warned Of 911
Attack
By Yuval
Dror
Ha'aretz Daily
12-20-2
- Odigo, the instant messaging service, says that two of
its workers received messages two hours before the Twin Towers attack on
September 11 predicting the attack would happen, and the company has
been cooperating with Israeli and American law enforcement, including
the FBI, in trying to find the original sender of the message predicting
the attack.
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- Micha Macover, CEO of the company, said the two
workers received the messages and immediately after the terror attack
informed the company's management, which immediately contacted the
Israeli security services, which brought in the FBI.
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- "I have no idea why the message was sent to these two
workers, who don't know the sender. It may just have been someone who
was joking and turned out they accidentally got it right. And I don't
know if our information was useful in any of the arrests the FBI has
made," said Macover. Odigo is a U.S.-based company whose headquarters
are in New York, with offices in Herzliya.
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- As an instant messaging service, Odigo users are not
limited to sending messages only to people on their "buddy" list, as is
the case with ICQ, the other well-known Israeli instant messaging
application.
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- Odigo usually zealously protects the privacy of its
registered users, said Macover, but in this case the company took the
initiative to provide the law enforcement services with the originating
Internet Presence address of the message, so the FBI could track down
the Internet Service Provider, and the actual sender of the original
message.
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