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Mossad assassinations on American soil?:

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/j011703.html

http://usinfo.state.gov/cgi-bin/washfile/display.pl?p=/products/washfile/latest&f=03011704.tlt&t=/products/washfile/newsitem.shtml

State Department Briefing covering the Israeli assassinations story

QUESTION: UPI has a story that says Israel is mounting a major assassination program abroad. They've been notably unsuccessful on occasion in four or five countries. My question is: What is the U.S. view of Israel suddenly deciding to increase the funding for Mossad just for this purpose? The story had very good sources, both here and in Israel. And I'm wondering --

MR. BOUCHER: I'm not going to evaluate the story. I'm not going to evaluate the sources. I'm not going to evaluate the intentions of the Israelis.

QUESTION: Do you agree with their decision, though? And possibly --

MR. BOUCHER: What decision? Go ask the Israelis. If they tell you what they've decided to do, I will comment then.

QUESTION: If I might, Richard. The story actually indicates that Israel is prepared to undertake targeted killings in the United States and quotes U.S. officials as being aware of this policy.

MR. BOUCHER: Again, I'm not going to try to react to a whole bunch of anonymous sources in a speculative article.

QUESTION: Well, could you say whether the U.S. would be prepared to allow Israel to undertake targeted killings of potential terrorists in the United States?

MR. BOUCHER: If you show me something where the Israeli Government says that they are going to undertake targeted killings of terrorists in the United States, I will react at that time. I think our views on targeted killings in the region is well known. It has not changed. Our views of the importance of everybody in this country respecting U.S. law is very clear and well known. And I'm not going to try to speculate on something that anonymous sources of that kind have put in the press.

[Note the refusal to state that the US would not allow Israeli assassinations to take place on US soil. ]

-http://www.dailytelegraph.news.com.au/printpage/0,5942,5856444,00.html

Israel unleashes its death squads

19jan03

ISRAELI death squads have been authorised to enter "friendly" countries and assassinate opponents in a move that raises the prospect of political killings in Australia.

Agents of the Israeli secret service Mossad have been given free rein to kill those deemed to be a threat to the Jewish state – wherever they are hiding.Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who has until now refused permission for assassinations on the home ground of allies, has reversed the policy as part of a more aggressive approach to terrorism.The move was revealed by former Mossad agents in a series of interviews with US news agency United Press International. It was later confirmed by US intelligence officials.They said the policy raised the potential for killings in countries with close ties to Israel, including the US, Britain and Australia.One Mossad official told UPI the policy shift was prompted by "a huge budget" increase for the agency as part of "a tougher stance in fighting global jihad (or holy war)"."Targeted killings" have, in the main, been restricted to the West Bank and Gaza because "no one wanted such operations on their territory", one Israeli official said.But that is changing with the appointment late last year of new Mossad director Meir Dagan.Another former Mossad agent told UPI: "Diplomatic constraints have prevented Mossad from carrying out preventive operations (assassinations) on the soil of friendly countries until now."Mr Sharon and Mr Dagan were now "reversing that policy, even if it risks complications to Israel's bilateral relations".A third source said Mr Sharon wanted "greater operational maneuverability" for Mossad.Asked if that meant assassinations within allied countries, he said: "It does."The move comes in the wake of the assassination by the CIA of al-Qaeda suspects in Yemen.Qaed Sinan Harithi and five other suspects were killed last year when a unmanned Predator spy plane fired a Hellfire missile at their car.That attack is thought to have limited the ability of the US to protest about Mossad killings abroad."That (the Predator attack) was done on the soil of a friendly ally," an official at the US Congress said. "I don't know on what basis we would be able to protest Israel's actions."Israel has in the past sent hit squads to kill opponents in hostile countries such as Lebanon, and snatch squads have been used extensively throughout the world.Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann was captured in Argentina in 1960, taken to Israel and executed.In 1986, scientist Mordechai Vanunu was snatched in Rome and transported to Israel after revealing details of Israel's nuclear weapons program. He was sentenced to 18 years jail, only being released from solitary confinement in 1998.One of the few known cases of Mossad hitmen carrying out an assassination on friendly soil occurred on July 21, 1973, when a Mossad team shot dead Moroccan waiter Ahmed Bouchikhi as he walked home from the cinema with his pregnant wife in the Norwegian ski resort of Lillehammer.The assassins apparently mistook Bouchikhi for Hassan Salameh, a PLO intelligence chief suspected of masterminding the killing of 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics.Gullow Gjeseth, who led a Norwegian Government inquiry into the shooting, said: "This was much more than a murder. This was a violation of Norwegian sovereignty."In January 1996, Israel paid undisclosed damages to Bouchikhi's family, but refused to admit responsibility for the killing.Mossad is thought to have struck again in October 1995, when the head of the Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad, Fathi al-Shikai, was gunned down on the streets of Malta. The hit, though never formally claimed, had all the trademarks of the agency.A return to such killings is expected to raise concerns among Israel's Western allies.The assassinations are likely to be carried out by a unit of Mossad's secret Metsada department called the Kidon, a Hebrew word meaning "bayonet".The agents will have to answer to Mr Dagan, who has been described by a CIA agent as having a "real killer instinct".Officially, Israel has refused to confirm or deny the policy change.Kim Farber, a diplomat at the Israeli Embassy in Washington, told UPI: "There is so little information available on this, there is nothing I can add."A spokesman for Foreign Minister Alexander Downer yesterday refused to comment on the possibility of Mossad agents operating in Australia.

http://www.themercury.news.com.au/printpage/0,5942,5856444,00.html

Israel unleashes its death squads

19jan03

SRAELI death squads have been authorised to enter "friendly" countries and assassinate opponents in a move that raises the prospect of political killings in Australia.

Agents of the Israeli secret service Mossad have been given free rein to kill those deemed to be a threat to the Jewish state – wherever they are hiding.Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who has until now refused permission for assassinations on the home ground of allies, has reversed the policy as part of a more aggressive approach to terrorism.The move was revealed by former Mossad agents in a series of interviews with US news agency United Press International. It was later confirmed by US intelligence officials.They said the policy raised the potential for killings in countries with close ties to Israel, including the US, Britain and Australia.

One Mossad official told UPI the policy shift was prompted by "a huge budget" increase for the agency as part of "a tougher stance in fighting global jihad (or holy war)"."Targeted killings" have, in the main, been restricted to the West Bank and Gaza because "no one wanted such operations on their territory", one Israeli official said.But that is changing with the appointment late last year of new Mossad director Meir Dagan.Another former Mossad agent told UPI: "Diplomatic constraints have prevented Mossad from carrying out preventive operations (assassinations) on the soil of friendly countries until now."Mr Sharon and Mr Dagan were now "reversing that policy, even if it risks complications to Israel's bilateral relations".A third source said Mr Sharon wanted "greater operational maneuverability" for Mossad.Asked if that meant assassinations within allied countries, he said: "It does."The move comes in the wake of the assassination by the CIA of al-Qaeda suspects in Yemen.Qaed Sinan Harithi and five other suspects were killed last year when a unmanned Predator spy plane fired a Hellfire missile at their car.That attack is thought to have limited the ability of the US to protest about Mossad killings abroad."That (the Predator attack) was done on the soil of a friendly ally," an official at the US Congress said. "I don't know on what basis we would be able to protest Israel's actions."Israel has in the past sent hit squads to kill opponents in hostile countries such as Lebanon, and snatch squads have been used extensively throughout the world.Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann was captured in Argentina in 1960, taken to Israel and executed.In 1986, scientist Mordechai Vanunu was snatched in Rome and transported to Israel after revealing details of Israel's nuclear weapons program. He was sentenced to 18 years jail, only being released from solitary confinement in 1998.One of the few known cases of Mossad hitmen carrying out an assassination on friendly soil occurred on July 21, 1973, when a Mossad team shot dead Moroccan waiter Ahmed Bouchikhi as he walked home from the cinema with his pregnant wife in the Norwegian ski resort of Lillehammer.The assassins apparently mistook Bouchikhi for Hassan Salameh, a PLO intelligence chief suspected of masterminding the killing of 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics.Gullow Gjeseth, who led a Norwegian Government inquiry into the shooting, said: "This was much more than a murder. This was a violation of Norwegian sovereignty."In January 1996, Israel paid undisclosed damages to Bouchikhi's family, but refused to admit responsibility for the killing.Mossad is thought to have struck again in October 1995, when the head of the Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad, Fathi al-Shikai, was gunned down on the streets of Malta. The hit, though never formally claimed, had all the trademarks of the agency.A return to such killings is expected to raise concerns among Israel's Western allies.The assassinations are likely to be carried out by a unit of Mossad's secret Metsada department called the Kidon, a Hebrew word meaning "bayonet".The agents will have to answer to Mr Dagan, who has been described by a CIA agent as having a "real killer instinct".Officially, Israel has refused to confirm or deny the policy change.Kim Farber, a diplomat at the Israeli Embassy in Washington, told UPI: "There is so little information available on this, there is nothing I can add."A spokesman for Foreign Minister Alexander Downer yesterday refused to comment on the possibility of Mossad agents operating in Australia.

Wednesday, January 15, 2003
WAR ON TERROR
Report: Israel targets
enemies on U.S. soil
Country purportedly changing strategy to assassinate militants in friendly areas
Posted: January 15, 2003
6:55 p.m. Eastern

© 2003 WorldNetDaily.com In a radical change in policy, Israel is expected to ratchet up its fight against terrorism by assassinating its enemies on American soil as well as in other friendly countries, according to United Press International. Former Israeli intelligence officials speaking on condition of anonymity say the new plan includes overseas targeted killings ? a practice which up until now has been rejected by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. Jerusalem's current assassination policy has been primarily confined to the West Bank and Gaza. "What Sharon wants is a much more extensive and tough approach to global terrorism, and this includes greater operational maneuverability," one former military source told UPI. Another former Israeli government official told the agency that under Sharon, "diplomatic constraints have prevented the Mossad from carrying out 'preventive operations' (targeted killings) on the soil of friendly countries until now." UPI says it confirmed the claims with over a half dozen U.S. foreign-policy and intelligence officials. Sharon also is planning a "huge budget" increase for Israel's Mossad intelligence service as part of "a tougher stance in fighting global jihad," said one official. Mossad is now under new management in the person of Meir Dagan. "Mossad is definitely being beefed up," a U.S. government official told UPI about the budget hike, but the FBI declined to comment, saying, "This is a policy matter; we only enforce federal laws." The U.S. has its own recent record of targeting enemies on foreign soil. On Nov. 5, a remote-controlled CIA drone aircraft attacked and killed six alleged members of the al-Qaida terror network in Yemen, an ally of the U.S. Though immediate reaction from the Bush administration was subdued, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said the death of Qaed Salim Sinan al Harethi, a top al-Qaida leader, was a "good thing." Just days prior to the strike, President Bush had stated: "The only way to treat [terrorists] is [for] what they are ? international killers. And the only way to find them is to be patient, and steadfast, and hunt them down. And the United States of America is doing just that." In Israel's case, the new policy may be easier said than done. "Israel does not have a good record at doing this sort of thing," former CIA counter-terrorism official Larry Johnson told UPI. He cites the 1997 capture of two Mossad agents who had tried to use poison to assassinate Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal in Amman, Jordan. The incident sparked political difficulties between Israel and Jordan, not to mention Canada, since the Mossad agents held Canadian passports. Israel ended up releasing Hamas founder Sheikh Ahmad Yassin and some 70 other Jordanian and Palestinian prisoners to secure the freedom of its two agents, according to former CIA officials. Mossad also tried twice to kill Ali Hassan Salemeh, who masterminded the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre. The first attempt in 1974 was botched when the hit team murdered the wrong victim, a Moroccan waiter in Norway. Salemeh later became an asset to the CIA, but was killed in Beirut in 1976 by a car bomb placed by Mossad's strike force. "Israel knew Salemeh was providing us with preventive intelligence on the Palestinians and his being killed pissed off a lot of people," a former senior CIA official told UPI. Despite the failures, there have been some successes reported. One involves the 1990 killing of Gerald Bull, a Canadian-born U.S. citizen and designer of the Iraqi supergun. That weapon is a huge artillery that can launch satellites and deliver weapons of mass destruction from Baghdad to Israel. Though his death officially is unsolved, ex-CIA agents say Mossad is most likely responsible.

http://worldnetdaily.com/news/printer-friendly.asp?ARTICLE_ID=30513

Wednesday, January 15, 2003
WAR ON TERROR
Report: Israel targets
enemies on U.S. soil
Country purportedly changing strategy to assassinate militants in friendly areas
Posted: January 15, 2003
6:55 p.m. Eastern

In a radical change in policy, Israel is expected to ratchet up its fight against terrorism by assassinating its enemies on American soil as well as in other friendly countries, according to United Press International. Former Israeli intelligence officials speaking on condition of anonymity say the new plan includes overseas targeted killings ? a practice which up until now has been rejected by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. Jerusalem's current assassination policy has been primarily confined to the West Bank and Gaza. "What Sharon wants is a much more extensive and tough approach to global terrorism, and this includes greater operational maneuverability," one former military source told UPI. Another former Israeli government official told the agency that under Sharon, "diplomatic constraints have prevented the Mossad from carrying out 'preventive operations' (targeted killings) on the soil of friendly countries until now." UPI says it confirmed the claims with over a half dozen U.S. foreign-policy and intelligence officials. Sharon also is planning a "huge budget" increase for Israel's Mossad intelligence service as part of "a tougher stance in fighting global jihad," said one official. Mossad is now under new management in the person of Meir Dagan. "Mossad is definitely being beefed up," a U.S. government official told UPI about the budget hike, but the FBI declined to comment, saying, "This is a policy matter; we only enforce federal laws." The U.S. has its own recent record of targeting enemies on foreign soil. On Nov. 5, a remote-controlled CIA drone aircraft attacked and killed six alleged members of the al-Qaida terror network in Yemen, an ally of the U.S. Though immediate reaction from the Bush administration was subdued, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said the death of Qaed Salim Sinan al Harethi, a top al-Qaida leader, was a "good thing." Just days prior to the strike, President Bush had stated: "The only way to treat [terrorists] is [for] what they are ? international killers. And the only way to find them is to be patient, and steadfast, and hunt them down. And the United States of America is doing just that." In Israel's case, the new policy may be easier said than done. "Israel does not have a good record at doing this sort of thing," former CIA counter-terrorism official Larry Johnson told UPI. He cites the 1997 capture of two Mossad agents who had tried to use poison to assassinate Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal in Amman, Jordan. The incident sparked political difficulties between Israel and Jordan, not to mention Canada, since the Mossad agents held Canadian passports. Israel ended up releasing Hamas founder Sheikh Ahmad Yassin and some 70 other Jordanian and Palestinian prisoners to secure the freedom of its two agents, according to former CIA officials. Mossad also tried twice to kill Ali Hassan Salemeh, who masterminded the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre. The first attempt in 1974 was botched when the hit team murdered the wrong victim, a Moroccan waiter in Norway. Salemeh later became an asset to the CIA, but was killed in Beirut in 1976 by a car bomb placed by Mossad's strike force. "Israel knew Salemeh was providing us with preventive intelligence on the Palestinians and his being killed pissed off a lot of people," a former senior CIA official told UPI. Despite the failures, there have been some successes reported. One involves the 1990 killing of Gerald Bull, a Canadian-born U.S. citizen and designer of the Iraqi supergun. That weapon is a huge artillery that can launch satellites and deliver weapons of mass destruction from Baghdad to Israel. Though his death officially is unsolved, ex-CIA agents say Mossad is most likely responsible.

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2003/1/15/172506.shtml

Israel to Rub Out Terrorists in Allied Countries
NewsMax Wires
Wednesday, January 15, 2003
Israel is embarking upon a more aggressive approach to the war on terror that will include staging targeted killings in the United States and other friendly countries, former Israeli intelligence officials told United Press International.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 U.S. foreign policy and intelligence officials in interviews with UPI.With the appointment of Meir Dagan, the new director Israel's Mossad secret intelligence service, Sharon is also preparing "a huge budget" increase for the spy agency as part of "a tougher stance in fighting global jihad (or holy war)," one Israeli official said.Since Sharon became Israeli prime minister, Tel Aviv has mainly limited its practice of targeted killings 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) 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.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 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-terrorism during the government of Netanyahu in 1996, former Israeli government 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 as "being too conservative or too cautious" and is building up "a constituency 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."Regarding Mossad's new policy and budget increase, Kim Farber an Israeli Embassy official said, "There is so little information available on this, there is nothing I can add.

Guest

9/11 Hijacker Attended US Military School:

http://www.warwithoutend.co.uk/middle-east-and-asia/2002/12/31/9-11-hijacker-attended-us-military-school.php

Not A Rotten Tooth Limey · Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2003 3:45 pm Post subject:

Ok...so Israel is going to do what the CIA and MI-5 have been doing for years. Intelligence agencies killing people in other countries is far from a new idea.

Guest · Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2003 4:44 pm Post subject:

Yes your right, I agree, its not as if they havent done it before, and as you say we in the west have done it for a long time now.

Its what we do with any of these people that are caught in the act that maters though.

Seeing as old Saddam seems to have authorised the same, especially it seems in the UK with regard to assasinating Iraqi opposition leaders.

Thats if we are to believe Brit and Cia intelligence sources.

MI5 are apparantly monitoring Iraqi sleeper cells in the UK as we speak.

Whats good for the goose is good for the gander, I agree with you there.

Alpha · Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2003 9:45 am Post subject:

Alpha

Israeli Mossad Associated with tragic World Trade Center Attack:

http://www.warwithoutend.co.uk/middle-east-and-asia/2002/12/31/9-11-hijacker-attended-us-military-school.php

Alpha · Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2003 9:52 am Post subject:

Alpha · Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2003 10:01 am Post subject:

Guest-cd46 · Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2003 5:32 pm Post subject:

Cluck cluck cluck chicken Alpha

Hunnibee · Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2003 7:58 pm Post subject:

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