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Conspiracy Theory: My encounter with Mossad

Friday 29th September
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Getting to work saw a combination of my personal indiscipline, sheer madness of Lagos traffic with Murphy's Law(whatever could go wrong always will at the worst possible time) at its quintessence ensuring my arrival at 10am!! It didnt begin to get exciting however till my cell phone got off its usual passive profile, ringing and showing an out-of-town number. Well, you pick a call which is what I did. On the other end was a foreign voice doing damage to the name I so pride myself to be identified by. I forgave the offence and acknowledged she's connected to the crrect target. She wanted to know whether I'd seen a mail inviting me to an interview in a sophisticated hotel not far from Nigeria's hub of commerce where my current workplace s located on Victoria Island.

Eight hours later was when the mail got read. Yes, I'd be glad to attend an interview was my return correspondence. A couple of activities and plenty hours afterwards, I returned to a sane V.I when the working population was home enjoying a deserved public holiday on October 2 courtesy Independence anniversary. Converting this opportunity would sure irrevocably change my entire existence and upgrade my experience in a superlative manner. So, I wanted this job and put up what capacity I had to get it. I simply answered the questions posed by the three-man foreigner panel the way my frame of mind and person afforded. Standard questions: Tell us about yourself, your interests, experiences; where do you see yourself five years from now; why do you want to work with Comverse, etc. That was after a rich history of the company as well as the identity of the panel has been poured into my brain via the ear gates. Done, they let me go.

Tuesday October 3
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Brimming over with expectation of turnaround eventuality of my being selected for the job since I wasnt confident in my output at the interview, my heart was in my mouth when other events led to checking up on my mailbox and there it was sitting in the inbox. Bottomline, they regret...

News bits
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My heart was really burning over the missed opportunity and to assess what I had passed up I did what should have been done in the first place. Ask who Comverse was, not from Comverse but from disinterested, outside voices. And it began to pour in. The company was what its supposed to be, the no.1 communications value-added services provider that started in Israel and transmuted into an American enterprise. What I missed was the person of its immediate past president/chief executive. His first name was Jacob, was a former Israeli intelligence officer who became high-tech enterpreneur.

My theory
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Google led me to sources where I got info that Mr. Jacob fled the U.S after FBI got after him ostensibly for backdating his stock options in the then fledgling Comverse Technologies but the real scoop was that the wiretapping of the entire communications infrastucture set up by American intelligence apparatus was implemented with Comverse hardware and software. What I put together was that this access to privileged info by Comverse not only secured advantage to Israel but has been compromised through reverse wiretapping mechanisms and is being leveraged by America's enemies notably the terrorists.
This was what made enemies of FBI and Comverse, turning Mr Jacob to a running fugitive.

Connecting Nigeria
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The week leading to the Comverse interview was when Mr Jacob got arrested, not in Israel or anywhere in Europe or the whole of the Americas. He was arrested by Namibian security in the South West of Africa. Now, I ask--could it be that the man was heading for Nigeria? Were not those recruiters Israeli intelligence conducting reconnaissance and picking candidates for Mossad? Now, I wonder at the equivocation in the reply I got from the HR Director when I asked the interview panel why they were in Nigeria. She said, the company was in Nigeria cos their clients-- Celtel, MTN, others--are here. To this, I told them, "You are welcome." Their response was enthusiastic.

For those who understand this country, what a haven it would have been in sheltering an Israeli on a mission to help secure the most beautiful of all lands!!

posted by momentum @ 11:13 AM