Israeli company in charge of London Underground Security

[Karl]

It was shocking for me to learn that an Israeli company called VERINT had in 2004 been awarded the contract under London Underground privatisation for the entire security, cctv, etc for the entire underground network including stations, platforms and trains.
This might explain why on 07.07.2005 there are no cctv images of any of the happenings that day.

However it is even more disturbing to learn that the company Verint was delisted by the NASDAQ for fraud and false accounting and that several of it's current directors are former Israeli military and intelligence officers.

I wonder if George Galloway knows about this, i will try and phone him this friday to ask him to try and table a question about why the security of OUR tube network is firstly privatised but secondly handed over to a foreign and yes Israeli company but thirdlly a company by all accounts crooked and under investigation in the USA and removed from nasdaq.

I as o londoner did not know this i have never seen it on tv. I am pretty sure you didnt know this either. And they say we dont have a censored media. I am pretty sure unions, police, mp's, councillors, travellers would want to see security in british hands in the hands of our government or the GLA.
When you think back and recall that on 7/7 the Israeli embassey issued an alert to its employees not to travel. How did they know? Well it seems crystal clear now.

[Karl]

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/69208

if anyone wants to verify

http://www.redherring.com/Article.aspx?a=21042&hed=Nasdaq+Delists+Comverse%2c+Verint

Comverse Technology and its subsidiary Verint Systems lost their battle to stay listed on the Nasdaq after a stock options-backdating scandal and a series of delayed financial reports prompted their twin delisting.
Comverse Technology’s fugitive ex-CEO Jacob Alexander was reportedly found in the African nation of Namibia and has been detained and is awaiting extradition to the United States, the U.S. Attorney’s office in Brooklyn, New York, said Wednesday.
Mr. Alexander was charged with criminal securities fraud and backdating of stock options, but was declared a fugitive when he didn’t show up in court along with two other former Comverse executives.
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation declared him a fugitive and issued a “red notice” with Interpol to alert international police forces that an arrest warrant had been issued for him.
The two other Comverse executives, CFO David Kreinberg and Senior General Counsel William Sorin, did surrender and faced charges. Namibia has no extradition treaty with the U.S., however. Actor Wesley Snipes has also landed in Namibia after fleeing tax evasion charges.
Mr. Sorin has pled guilty and agreed to pay $3 million in fines and restitution to settle civil fraud charges. Mr. Kreinberg has also pled guilty and faces up to 15 years in prison. He has agreed to pay $2.4 million in restitution.
Meanwhile Mr. Alexander remains in Namibia awaiting an extradition hearing so he can be escorted back to the U.S. He has reportedly been spending his time investing in solar energy-powered housing projects for the poor in hopes of remaining in the good graces of local officials.

[Karl]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1113837.stm

Bob Kiley was a CIA agent according to the BBC

[nico]

f....hell. It's shocking.

Please do so. let GG know about. I am sure he'll talk about it in the next show, and welldone karl.

[maycm]

What's your slant here? The fact that it's a foreign company, probably corrupt if your information is correct (a perfectly valid critisism and one that should be investigated), or the fact that it is an ISRAELI corrupt company?

I don't see the relevence unless you have a personal agenda to push here, and frankly it's not welcome.

As for the Israeli embassy issuing warnings and there being some relevence to 7/7, that's truly in the relams of the conspiricy nutjobs if you ask me. Governments all over the world issue travel warnings all the time and because one coincides with an event such as this is irrelevent. Did they specify London Transport as the travel method to be avoided? I think not.

Regarding the CCTV - there may be a point there. The "official" word from the London Police was as follows:

[Karl]

These Israeli security firms need to be investigated in light of the London bombings, because they provide "security technology" for the tube lines that were bombed. They have perfected their "security" skills in Israel and Iraq and then apply them in Britain and the U.S.A. This is a pattern. The same thing happened at Heathrow when the PanAm flight went down, the same thing occurred at Boston and Newark airports on 9/11. Remember no cctv of any highjackers at any of the airports and how did the highjackers get on the planes without buying a ticket first?

Isn't it time for nations like the UK to use their own brains and people to protect their citizens and stop outsourcing their most fundamental obligations to dodgy Israeli "security" firms?

Who guards the guards?

The slant is this. I as an informed person born and bred in london and travelling occasionally by tube did not know the tube security was run by an Israeli firm.
Secondly the particular firm has got issues such as it's directors being convicted of fraud. Thirdly the firm cant be doung a very good job. Think about all the muggings and pickpocketing etc that goes on in the underground. Even rapes. Not to mention 7/7 where NO cctv has been released. De Menezes who was shot 7 times in the head again NO cctv. I believe this contract should be taken away from them and put back into UK hands.

And yes i do have a problem with Israel which is an APARTHEID state and should have sanctions for warcrimes and failure to abide by UN resolutions.

[IRiSHMaFIA]

[Karl]

[Lostinthestates]

I do agree with you too! It seems that because of what the Nazis did to the Jews during WW II they seem to be exempt from any international scrutiny - and if you do say something against them you are a Nazi yourself - I think it is a tragedy what is happening in Israel - but that is a complete different matter!

[Karl]

this is a sourced verified news item NOT a conspiracy item
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/69208

[PaintDry]

Since Craig Murray was a guest on George's show a few weeks ago, I have been watching his site. Today's entry is most interesting in regard to the security of the London Underground.

http://www.craigmurray.co.uk/

[faceless]

If this isn't the definition of a conspiracy then I don't know what is. The sooner people start realising that the word conspiracy doesn't have to mean a load of fanciful pedantry and that there is a genuine threat to the people of the world by small groups of power-brokers the better.

[alan1254]

From my point of view you have to think Churchill and the Lucitania/ Pearl Harbour , what advantage would Isreal gain , well it seems pretty obvious its the same (its reasonably well documented that Chuchill knew that pearl harbour was going to happen , but didnt inform the US to drag them into the second world war , and it is certain that he was aware of the threat to the Lucitaina and ignored it to drag the US into the first world war)