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    Report: Deadly NZ quake uncovers Israeli spy ring

    WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — A New Zealand newspaper group is reporting that the deadly February earthquake in Christchurch unearthed a suspected Israeli spy ring.

    Three Israelis died in the quake that killed 181 people. Other Israelis escaped the quake.

    The Fairfax newspaper group, which didn't state how it obtained the information, said one of the Israelis who died was carrying at least five passports.

    Fairfax said New Zealand Prime Minister John Key took four calls from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu following the quake, and that an unaccredited Israeli search and rescue squad searching a cordoned area in Christchurch was stopped by New Zealand officers.

    Key, who is traveling in California, told media Wednesday that it wasn't in the national interest to comment about the report.

     

    1,418 comments

    • petersonofjohn1  •  9 mths ago
      Israelis are the most industrious people on the planet, their spys are in every country.
      From computers to clothing they harvest the ideas, ( Microsoft could not operate without the Israelis)what is going on and take the best back to Israel, it's probable that they were indeed looking at sheep
    • kevin  •  10 mths ago
      Why would anyone spy on New Zealand?
      • Hey YO! 10 mths ago
        because they have a good rugby team?
      • Bridge Dealer 10 mths ago
        Kiwis
      • Judge 10 mths ago
        Their assassination squads like the passport and the 'peaceful' reputation of New Zealand.
        They don't get fondled like US sheep
    • JS  •  10 mths ago
      I wonder how long until this story "disappears" down the memory hole.
      • Dearborn Sux 10 mths ago
        Trust me, it will be out of the public eyes like sh1t through a goose.
      • Regular Joe 10 mths ago
        What story?
    • oakie  •  10 mths ago
      It is difficult why Israel would spy on a country like New Zealand. New Zealand is a
      peaceful, stable, pro-Israel country of 4 Million people.
      If they spy on them, they must spy on every other country.
      Their agency budget must be enormous. US foreign aid at work.
      There is one place you didn't expect your tax dollar to end up!
      • GWC 10 mths ago
        Just because they were there doesn't mean that they were spying on the government of New Zealand.
      • Paul 10 mths ago
        NZ are not pro Israel at all. However they have a pro Israel government under Jewish Zionist John Key
      • Tom 10 mths ago
        Israel does spy on all countries. This includes USA.
    • Marius714  •  10 mths ago
      Israel is planning to create a new Jewish State down under called New Zealot?
      • aussea 10 mths ago
        funny--I like it
      • Nicole 10 mths ago
        i dont know if to lath or cray
      • Regular Joe 10 mths ago
        I say laugh but then cry.
    • C  •  10 mths ago
      #$%$ was Israel spying on, sheep?
      • gofer 10 mths ago
        They were going to steel them!
      • steelerman 10 mths ago
        Radical muslim sheep
      • Thomas 10 mths ago
        They spy on everyone.
    • e w  •  10 mths ago
      Why on Earth would Israel spy on New Zealand? For that matter, why would they spy on the USA when our government has backed them and given them billions over the years?
      Seems to me that it's mighty ungrateful to bite the hand that feeds you.........
    • ron  •  10 mths ago
      deport US politicians one at a time and secure the borders from evil
    • John Smith  •  10 mths ago
      What's there to spy on in New Zealand? Advance sheep herding techniques?
    • Justin  •  10 mths ago
      Every country of worth has spies in every other country of any worth...to think otherwise is pure ignorance!
    • Sherwood O  •  10 mths ago
      Too much behind the scenes going on around the world.. can you imagine what we don't know? Governments keep too much from their own people......
    • Paul  •  10 mths ago
      meanwhile Bachmann who is on record as sayings she considers herself Jewish and Romney both trumpet how much they love Israel and try and outbid each other in promising massive additional military aid. they also both support more bulldozing of Palestinian property and Caterpillar are making armoured bulldozers to be given FREE to Israel to flatten American young people all with the blessing of your corrupt Congress. Makes me sick to think about this evil
    • Steve  •  10 mths ago
      How is the country of New Zealand a threat to Israel?
    • a veteran  •  10 mths ago
      Our taxpayer dollars at work. Tell me again why we pay the Israelis billions of dollars year after year since 1948?
    • F1FAN  •  10 mths ago
      Doesn't everyone have 5 passports?
    • Think kink  •  10 mths ago
      Should united states cut All Aid to Israel?? Do we need Israel or Israel needs us??
    • Sherwood O  •  10 mths ago
      Stop spending the American Tax Payer's Money (extortion money) around the world, bring our jobs back to the USA and those who stand for democracy.. and stop thinking we are stupid! Yes some are but go look up the average education level of the USA and you will see we are not and you Gov't fools continue to play your tricks thinking we won't get it.
    • Billie  •  10 mths ago
      There are Israeli spy rings in almost every country in the world. In 2010, Israeli assassins carried out an extrajudicial murder of a Palestinian in Dubai. Their 26-member team used FAKE British, Irish, French, German and Australian passports as cover.
    • Lent107  •  10 mths ago
      "Key, who is traveling in California, told media Wednesday that it wasn't in the national interest to comment about the report." What? why can't he? isn't he a head of a state?
    • REALITY CHECK  •  10 mths ago
      The UNITED STATES of ISRAEL: There is also the fundamental fact that the wiretap technologies implemented by Verint, Narus and other Israeli companies are fully in place and no alternative is on the horizon. "There is a technical path dependence problem," says the Bush administration official. "I have been told nobody else makes software like this for the big digital switches, so that is part of the problem. Other issues," he adds, "compound the problem" -- referring to the sensitivity of the U.S.-Israel relationship.

      And that, of course, is the elephant in the room. "Whether it’s a Democratic or Republican administration, you don’t bad-mouth Israel if you want to get ahead," says former CIA counterterrorism officer Philip Giraldi. "Most of the people in the agency were very concerned about Israeli espionage and Israeli actions against U.S. interests. Everybody was aware of it. Everybody hated it. But they wouldn’t get promoted if they spoke out. Israel has a privileged position and that’s the way things are. It’s crazy. And everybody knows it’s crazy."
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