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October 13, 2001
Narco News 2001
Armed with Bombs
in Mexican Congress
2 Israelis Arrested Wednesday
A Story Censored by U.S. Press
A Narco News Global Alert

Narco News Commentary: The following two stories, from the daily Crónica de
Hoy of Mexico City, October 12 and 13, 2001, have not been reported nor
refuted by a single U.S. correspondent from wire services or daily newspapers
with offices in Mexico. The stories are documented with an official Mexican
government investigation number and quotes from the Israeli Embassy in Mexico
City.

In the interests of the public's right to know, Narco News publishes
translations of both stories, uncensored and unabridged. We are investigating
the situation and will provide analysis once more information is available.
Certainly, the information, as it stands, is inconvenient to Washington
wartime propaganda and the fact that U.S. media has not reported it raises
issues of press freedom and responsibility that we will also explore in the
coming days.

From October 12:
Mexico will investigate if
Israelis were terrorists
-- They were armed with 9mm pistols, nine grenades, explosives, three
detonators and 58 bullets
-- They were detained by sugar industry workers in the Legislative Palace
By Alejandro Páez and Francisco Mejía

From Crónica de Hoy, Mexico City, October 12, 2001
Unabridged Translation by The Narco News Bulletin
The Attorney General is investigating and interrogating two Israelis (one
already a nationalized Mexican) who were detained in the House of
Representatives Wednesday with two 9mm pistols, nine grenades, explosives,
three detonators and 58 bullets, to determine if they belong to any group
connected with terrorists or subversive groups.
Salvador Gersson Smike, 34, a retired Israeli military official and
nationalized Mexican, and Sar Ben Zui, 27, of Israeli nationality, were held
yesterday in the installations of the metropolitan offices of the Attorney
General, headed by the assistant attorney general for criminal process
Gilberto Higuera Bernal. They were interrogated to clarify the source of the
arms that they carried and to determine if they are guilty of a crime.

Up until now the authorities have not declared about the status of
investigation number PGR/11-15-01 and they will wait until tonight when the
constitutional limit for determining the legal situation of the arrested
parties expires.
Both subjects were detained in the installations of the legislative palace of
San Lazaro when a group of sugar industry workers that had met with the
Speaker of the House, Beatriz Paredes, left to discuss their issues in the
lobby and the two arrested persons arrived and began photographing them.

This activity and the form in which they took the pictures (aiming their
cameras below the belts of the workers) generated tension among the sugar
workers who proceeded to demand their identification immediately.

The Israelis identified themselves as press photographers, but they were not
believed and the workers overcame them and then discovered that they were
armed with pistols and other high caliber arms.

From October 13:
The Isreali Embassy will
monitor the arrest of Sar Ben Zui
By Francisco Mejía
Crónica de Hoy, Mexico City, October 13, 2001
Unabridged Translation by The Narco News Bulletin
The Isreali Embassy in Mexico has confidence that its citizen, Sar Ben Zui,
will be investigated in accordance with the law and the consul, Elias Luf, is
following the investigations, his spokeswoman Hila Engelhart confirmed.
She said that the Embassy does not regulate the entrance of Israelis in
Mexico and doesn't know anything about what the arrested individual was
doing. She said that the citizens of that country that come to Mexico, like
all others from Israel, are not required to have any special visa for their
travels.

As will be remembered, Sar Ben Zui Was detained, with another subject, when
both were allegedly armed inside the House of Representatives.
According to statements by elements of the legislative security staff, the
suspects carried arms, explosives, nine grenades, bullets and a detonator.
In a telephone conversation the spokeswoman assured that the Embassy has
confidence in the Mexican institutions to do what is necessary to enforce the
law. "We are waiting to find out what happened."

She informed that the Embassy doesn't have a program to monitor Israeli
citizens who come to Mexico. In any case, she said, the Mexican secretary of
state should have a registry of all persons who enter national territory.

She indicated that relations between the two countries are very good and that
tourism is promoted by both countries.

Hila Engelhart recalled that it is not the first time that Mexico has
detained an Israeli citizen in its country, however, she said that it is a
situation that happens everywhere.
She reported that both countries collaborate constantly to monitor
exceptional movements that occur and said that "in the case of the arrested
Israelis, we hope the situation with be resolved quickly."

Finally, she said that the Israeli Ambassador is monitoring the arrests.