Too strange to be true, yet it is: FBI says they are "familiar" with mysterious traveler.

THEY CLOSED a state highway in Delaware County, OK for three hours because of him over the weekend. Witnesses say they saw a pipe bomb on his roof. When stopped for questioning, he identified himself as an Israeli but declined to show authorities a passport or visa. What local residents -- concerned about terrorism against the region's dam and water supply -- thought was a pipe bomb turned out to be something even stranger: a roof-mounted surveillance camera hooked to video recording equipment inside the man's car, reportedly used for "taking pictures of the area's surroundings."

The Israeli (whom the FBI and local officials refuse to identify; no charges were filed) had been seen asking directions to various local landmarks, and aroused even more suspicions when he refused to use metal utensils or a glass at the local diner for fear of leaving fingerprints. (ILLUSTRATION: Jay is located in the extreme northeastern part of the state, near the Arkansas-Missouri line.)

Sheila K. Stogsdill reported in The Oklahoman:

...A two-mile stretch of State Highway 20, east of Jay, was closed Saturday while an Oklahoma Highway Patrol bomb squad searched the man's car. Authorities had received a report of "possible terrorist activities."

The FBI office in Tulsa was notified, and agents were called to interview the man. He was released after being held for seven hours. The driver, who identified himself as Israeli, was unable to show a passport or visa. ...The FBI received "some hits on his name and said they had dealt with him before," he said.

The man, approximately 40 years old, is married to a U.S. citizen, [Undersheriff Dale] Eberle said. He did show an Arizona driver's license with a Gentry, Ark., address.

Saturday, the Delaware County sheriff's office received a report that a man stopped at a convenience store near Jay and was asking directions to Oklahoma. He was driving a car with what appeared to be pipe bomb attached to the roof.

Eberle said the "pipe bomb" was a video camera inside tubes taking pictures of the area's surroundings. ..."Our concern was for the Pensacola Dam and the two watersheds that feed Tulsa," Eberle said.

Eberle said authorities reviewed the videotape, which showed the surroundings from different angles. The video showed nothing specific, he said. An inventory of the car showed recording devices and tools, Eberle said.

Eberle said the man was in Jay last week asking questions about the community's industry. He also ate at a local diner, but he refused to use a metal fork or a glass because he didn't want to leave his fingerprints, he said.

The unnamed Israeli was released and no futher information about him is available from official sources.

The Joplin Globe reports that the mysterious Israeli refused to answer the questions of local law enforcement and demanded that they contact the FBI and CIA if they wanted explanations. Then, when the FBI was brought in, the agency blandly declared they were "familiar" with the mysterious traveler -- and he was ordered released:

...The Delaware County Sheriff's Department received a report at 9:32 a.m. that someone was driving a car with items that looked like pipe bombs, according to a written release from Delaware County undersheriff Dale Eberle.

The caller described the subject as a Middle Eastern male who was asking for directions to Oklahoma, according to the statement.

The caller stated the subject was driving a car with what appeared to be pipe bombs attached to the roof.

"Delaware County deputies inquired about the suspicious items on top of the subject's car. The subject told deputies that they would have to talk to the CIA and FBI about it and refused to answer further questions," said Eberle in the written release.

The driver reportedly said he was Israeli and was unable to produce a passport or visa, according to Eberle's statement.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation office in Tulsa was notified and agents were called to interview the man.

...The investigation ended at 5 p.m. Saturday with the release of the motorist.

A dispatcher for the FBI in Oklahoma City said the agency was referring all calls to the Delaware County Sheriff's Department. Eberle did not return a message left late Saturday on his cell phone.

One reader commented on the Globe story: "Why in the world was the motorist under investigation released...? Apparently he was driving a car without a license and had no proper ID to even be in America! Totally amazing! Has 9-11 taught us nothing .... even when it is in our own back yard?... I commend the individual who initially called with concern about this motorist. So very sorry that nothing was done concerning the lack of ID...."

This incident follows on the heels of the arrests of several mysterious Israelis -- typically caught acting as if they are on intelligence operations -- who are invariably released. News coverage is usually stricly local.



This follows the arrest of two israeli's spying and attempting to break in to a nuclear fuel plant in Tennessee. They claimed they were "lost movers".

This also follows Israelis who attempted to Penetrate US Nuclear Submarine Base in Kings Bay. Bomb sniffing dogs freaked out when israeli perps tried to enter in a suspicious van.

Don't forget the israeli "art students" who were videotaping and celebrating the 9\11 tragedy. They were arrested and then quitely flown back to israel.

What is really suspicious is;

The Erwin, Tennessee Israeli "movers" have been spirited away, out of the jurisdiction of the local authorities who were investigating and prosecuting them, and, like the "Israeli art student" spies and the "Urban Movers" 9/11 Mossad agents, they have been turned over to immigration officials to be quietly sent back to Israel. We predict the same fate for the King's Bay Israeli "movers."

With the Iraq occupation going very badly and the idea of future attacks on Israel's enemies in the Middle East getting a very sour reaction even from the usually-compliant American public, it may well be that another terror incident is being planned to "rally the American people" again, possibly instigated, guided, or even initiated by Israeli agents, with Iranian or Arab patsies to be fingered as alleged perpetrators to justify an expanded war.

Erwin, Tennessee is near a nuclear fuel facility. A vial of an unknown chemical, described as a "fuel source," was found on the highway there after a high-speed chase, apparently discarded by the fleeing Israelis.

Kings Bay is a supply and mooring point for nuclear submarines.

In addition to the danger of an attack on such facilities, one must also consider the possibility of nuclear or other dangerous materials being stolen by the Israelis for future operations.

Of one thing we may be sure: The Israeli agents who are caught in suspicious places doing suspicious things are tiny slivers of a continent-sized iceberg of war by deception.