Ramzi
10-06-03, 22:28
ISRAEL ORDERS MOSSAD TO MURDER AMERICANS IN THE USA
Israel is embarking upon a more aggressive approach to the 'war on
terror' that will include staging targeted killings [murders] in the
United States and other friendly countries, former Israeli
intelligence officials told United Press International [UPI].
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has forbidden the practice until
now, these sources said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
The Israeli statements were confirmed by more than a half dozen
former and currently serving U.S. foreign policy and intelligence
officials in interviews with United Press International.
But an official at the Israeli Embassy in Washington told UPI: "That
is rubbish. It is completely untrue. Israel and the United States
have such a close and co-operative intelligence relationship,
especially in the field of counter-terrorism, that the assertion is
ludicrous."
With the appointment of Meir Dagan, the new Director of Israel's
Mossad secret intelligence service, Sharon is preparing "a huge
budget" increase for the spy agency as part of "a tougher stance in
fighting global jihad [or war against all evils]," one Israeli
official said.
Since Sharon became Israeli Prime Minister, Tel Aviv has mainly
limited its practice of targeted killings [murders] to the West Bank
and Gaza because "no one wanted such operations on their territory,"
a former Israeli intelligence official said.
Another former Israeli government official said that under
Sharon, "diplomatic constraints have prevented the Mossad from
carrying out 'preventive operations' (targeted killings [murders]) on
the soil of friendly countries until now."
He said Sharon is "reversing that policy, even if it risks
complications to Israel's bilateral relations."
A former Israeli military intelligence source agreed: "What Sharon
wants is a much more extensive and tough approach to global
terrorism, and this includes greater operational maneuverability."
Does this mean assassinations on the soil of allies?
"It does," he said.
"Mossad is definitely being beefed up," a U.S. government official
said of the Israeli agency's budget increase. He declined to comment
on the Tel Aviv's geographic expansion of targeted killings [murders].
An FBI spokesman also declined to comment, saying: "This is a policy
matter. We only enforce federal laws."
A congressional staff member with deep knowledge of intelligence
matters said: "I don't know on what basis we would be able to protest
Israel's actions." He referred to the recent killing of Qaed Salim
Sinan al Harethi, a top Al-Qaida leader, in Yemen by a remotely
controlled CIA drone.
"That was done on the soil of a friendly ally," the staffer said.
But the complications posed by Israel's new policy are real.
"Israel does not have a good record at doing this sort of thing,"
said former CIA counter-terrorism official Larry Johnson.
He cited the 1997 fiasco where two Mossad agents were captured after
they tried to assassinate Khaled Mashaal, a Hamas political leader,
by injecting him with poison.
According to Johnson, the attempt, made in Amman, Jordan, caused a
political crisis in Israeli-Jordan relations. In addition, because
the Israeli agents carried Canadian passports, Canada withdrew its
Ambassador in protest, he said. Jordan is one of two Arab nations to
recognize Israel. The other is Egypt.
At the time, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said: "I have
no intention of stopping the activities of this government against
terror," according to a CNN report.
Former CIA officials say Israel was forced to free jailed Hamas
founder Sheikh Ahmad Yassin and 70 other Jordanian and Palestinian
prisoner being held in Israeli jails to secure the release of the two
would-be Mossad assassins.
Phil Stoddard, former Director of the Middle East Institute, cited a
botched plot to kill Ali Hassan Salemeh, the mastermind of the 1972
Munich Olympics massacre. The 1974 attempt severely embarrassed
Mossad when the Israeli hit team mistakenly assassinated a Moroccan
waiter in Lillehammer, Norway.
Salemeh, later a CIA asset, was killed in Beirut, Lebanon, in 1976 by
a car bomb placed by an Israeli assassination team, former U.S.
intelligence officials said.
"Israel knew Salemeh was providing us with preventive intelligence on
the Palestinians and his being killed pissed off a lot of people,"
said a former senior CIA official.
But some Israeli operations have been successful.
Gerald Bull, an Ontario-born U.S. citizen and designer of the Iraqi
supergun -- a massive artillery system capable of launching
satellites into orbit, and of delivering nuclear chemical or
biological payloads from Baghdad to Israel -- was killed in Belgium
in March 1990. The killing is still unsolved, but former CIA
officials said a Mossad hit team is the most likely suspect.
Bull worked on the supergun design -- codenamed Project Babylon --
for 10 years, and helped the Iraqis develop many smaller artillery
systems. He was found with five bullets in his head outside his
Brussels apartment.
Israeli hit teams, which consist of units or squadrons of the Kidon,
a sub-unit for Mossad's highly secret Metsada department, would stage
the operations, former Israeli intelligence sources said. Kidon is a
Hebrew word meaning "bayonet," one former Israeli intelligence source
said.
This Israeli government source explained that in the past Israel has
not staged targeted killings [murders] in friendly countries
because "no one wanted such operations on their territory."
This has become irrelevant, he said.
Dagan, the new hard-driving Director of Mossad, will implement the
new changes, former Israeli government officials said.
Dagan, nicknamed "the gun," was Sharon's adviser on counter-errorism
during the government of Netanyahu in 1996, former Israeli overnment officials say.
A former military man, Dagan has also undertaken
extremely sensitive diplomatic missions for several of Israel's prime
ministers, former Israeli government sources said.
Former Israel Defense Forces Lt. Col. Gal Luft, who served under
Dagan, described him as an "extremely creative individual -- creative
to the point of recklessness."
A former CIA official who knows Dagan said the new Mossad Director
knows "his foreign affairs inside and out," and has a "real killer
instinct."
Dagan is also "an intelligence natural" who has "a superb analyst not
afraid to act on gut instinct," the former CIA official said.
Dagan has already removed Mossad officials whom he regards s "being
too conservative or too cautious" and is building up "a constituncy
of senior people of the same mentality," one former long-time Israeli
operative said.
Dagan is also urging that Mossad operatives rely less on secret
sources and rely more on open information that is so plentifully
provided on the Internet and newspapers.
"It's a cultural thing," one former Israeli intelligence operative
explained. "Mossad in the past has put its emphasis on Humint (human
intelligence) and secret operations and has neglected the whole field
of open media, which has become extremely important."
[COMMENTS PUBLISHED IN THE http://www.WhatReallyHappened.com
(1/15/2003):
"ISRAEL TO KILL IN U.S., ALLIED NATIONS''. "Israel is embarking upon
a more aggressive approach to the 'war on terror' that will include
staging targeted killings [murders] in the United States and other
friendly countries, former Israeli intelligence officials told United
Press International [UPI]." -- "And why is the US Government allowing
murders on US soil? I mean, it should be obvious that the US is
condoning these extra-judicial executions, or else they would stop
signing those checks that pay for Israel's bullets! So, the US
Government, while not dirtying its own hands, is allowing Israeli
intelligence to walk into the United States and simply kill anyone
they want. Death Squads in the USA. Think about it. Think about who
is behind it."
http://www.WhatReallyHappened.com
"No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise
infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand
jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the
militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger; nor
shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in
jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case
to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or
property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be
taken for public use, without just compensation." -- 5th Amendment to
the United States Constitution.
http://www.WhatReallyHappened.com
[Copyright © 2001-2003 United Press International -- 1999-2003 News
World Communications, Inc.]
Israel is embarking upon a more aggressive approach to the 'war on
terror' that will include staging targeted killings [murders] in the
United States and other friendly countries, former Israeli
intelligence officials told United Press International [UPI].
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has forbidden the practice until
now, these sources said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
The Israeli statements were confirmed by more than a half dozen
former and currently serving U.S. foreign policy and intelligence
officials in interviews with United Press International.
But an official at the Israeli Embassy in Washington told UPI: "That
is rubbish. It is completely untrue. Israel and the United States
have such a close and co-operative intelligence relationship,
especially in the field of counter-terrorism, that the assertion is
ludicrous."
With the appointment of Meir Dagan, the new Director of Israel's
Mossad secret intelligence service, Sharon is preparing "a huge
budget" increase for the spy agency as part of "a tougher stance in
fighting global jihad [or war against all evils]," one Israeli
official said.
Since Sharon became Israeli Prime Minister, Tel Aviv has mainly
limited its practice of targeted killings [murders] to the West Bank
and Gaza because "no one wanted such operations on their territory,"
a former Israeli intelligence official said.
Another former Israeli government official said that under
Sharon, "diplomatic constraints have prevented the Mossad from
carrying out 'preventive operations' (targeted killings [murders]) on
the soil of friendly countries until now."
He said Sharon is "reversing that policy, even if it risks
complications to Israel's bilateral relations."
A former Israeli military intelligence source agreed: "What Sharon
wants is a much more extensive and tough approach to global
terrorism, and this includes greater operational maneuverability."
Does this mean assassinations on the soil of allies?
"It does," he said.
"Mossad is definitely being beefed up," a U.S. government official
said of the Israeli agency's budget increase. He declined to comment
on the Tel Aviv's geographic expansion of targeted killings [murders].
An FBI spokesman also declined to comment, saying: "This is a policy
matter. We only enforce federal laws."
A congressional staff member with deep knowledge of intelligence
matters said: "I don't know on what basis we would be able to protest
Israel's actions." He referred to the recent killing of Qaed Salim
Sinan al Harethi, a top Al-Qaida leader, in Yemen by a remotely
controlled CIA drone.
"That was done on the soil of a friendly ally," the staffer said.
But the complications posed by Israel's new policy are real.
"Israel does not have a good record at doing this sort of thing,"
said former CIA counter-terrorism official Larry Johnson.
He cited the 1997 fiasco where two Mossad agents were captured after
they tried to assassinate Khaled Mashaal, a Hamas political leader,
by injecting him with poison.
According to Johnson, the attempt, made in Amman, Jordan, caused a
political crisis in Israeli-Jordan relations. In addition, because
the Israeli agents carried Canadian passports, Canada withdrew its
Ambassador in protest, he said. Jordan is one of two Arab nations to
recognize Israel. The other is Egypt.
At the time, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said: "I have
no intention of stopping the activities of this government against
terror," according to a CNN report.
Former CIA officials say Israel was forced to free jailed Hamas
founder Sheikh Ahmad Yassin and 70 other Jordanian and Palestinian
prisoner being held in Israeli jails to secure the release of the two
would-be Mossad assassins.
Phil Stoddard, former Director of the Middle East Institute, cited a
botched plot to kill Ali Hassan Salemeh, the mastermind of the 1972
Munich Olympics massacre. The 1974 attempt severely embarrassed
Mossad when the Israeli hit team mistakenly assassinated a Moroccan
waiter in Lillehammer, Norway.
Salemeh, later a CIA asset, was killed in Beirut, Lebanon, in 1976 by
a car bomb placed by an Israeli assassination team, former U.S.
intelligence officials said.
"Israel knew Salemeh was providing us with preventive intelligence on
the Palestinians and his being killed pissed off a lot of people,"
said a former senior CIA official.
But some Israeli operations have been successful.
Gerald Bull, an Ontario-born U.S. citizen and designer of the Iraqi
supergun -- a massive artillery system capable of launching
satellites into orbit, and of delivering nuclear chemical or
biological payloads from Baghdad to Israel -- was killed in Belgium
in March 1990. The killing is still unsolved, but former CIA
officials said a Mossad hit team is the most likely suspect.
Bull worked on the supergun design -- codenamed Project Babylon --
for 10 years, and helped the Iraqis develop many smaller artillery
systems. He was found with five bullets in his head outside his
Brussels apartment.
Israeli hit teams, which consist of units or squadrons of the Kidon,
a sub-unit for Mossad's highly secret Metsada department, would stage
the operations, former Israeli intelligence sources said. Kidon is a
Hebrew word meaning "bayonet," one former Israeli intelligence source
said.
This Israeli government source explained that in the past Israel has
not staged targeted killings [murders] in friendly countries
because "no one wanted such operations on their territory."
This has become irrelevant, he said.
Dagan, the new hard-driving Director of Mossad, will implement the
new changes, former Israeli government officials said.
Dagan, nicknamed "the gun," was Sharon's adviser on counter-errorism
during the government of Netanyahu in 1996, former Israeli overnment officials say.
A former military man, Dagan has also undertaken
extremely sensitive diplomatic missions for several of Israel's prime
ministers, former Israeli government sources said.
Former Israel Defense Forces Lt. Col. Gal Luft, who served under
Dagan, described him as an "extremely creative individual -- creative
to the point of recklessness."
A former CIA official who knows Dagan said the new Mossad Director
knows "his foreign affairs inside and out," and has a "real killer
instinct."
Dagan is also "an intelligence natural" who has "a superb analyst not
afraid to act on gut instinct," the former CIA official said.
Dagan has already removed Mossad officials whom he regards s "being
too conservative or too cautious" and is building up "a constituncy
of senior people of the same mentality," one former long-time Israeli
operative said.
Dagan is also urging that Mossad operatives rely less on secret
sources and rely more on open information that is so plentifully
provided on the Internet and newspapers.
"It's a cultural thing," one former Israeli intelligence operative
explained. "Mossad in the past has put its emphasis on Humint (human
intelligence) and secret operations and has neglected the whole field
of open media, which has become extremely important."
[COMMENTS PUBLISHED IN THE http://www.WhatReallyHappened.com
(1/15/2003):
"ISRAEL TO KILL IN U.S., ALLIED NATIONS''. "Israel is embarking upon
a more aggressive approach to the 'war on terror' that will include
staging targeted killings [murders] in the United States and other
friendly countries, former Israeli intelligence officials told United
Press International [UPI]." -- "And why is the US Government allowing
murders on US soil? I mean, it should be obvious that the US is
condoning these extra-judicial executions, or else they would stop
signing those checks that pay for Israel's bullets! So, the US
Government, while not dirtying its own hands, is allowing Israeli
intelligence to walk into the United States and simply kill anyone
they want. Death Squads in the USA. Think about it. Think about who
is behind it."
http://www.WhatReallyHappened.com
"No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise
infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand
jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the
militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger; nor
shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in
jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case
to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or
property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be
taken for public use, without just compensation." -- 5th Amendment to
the United States Constitution.
http://www.WhatReallyHappened.com
[Copyright © 2001-2003 United Press International -- 1999-2003 News
World Communications, Inc.]