MOSSAD’s
atrocities around the World
Ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossad
Israeli Intelligence network Mossad’s Motto: "By Way Of Deception, Thou Shalt
Do War."[4
Americas
[edit] Argentina
In 1960, the Mossad discovered
that the Nazi leader
Adolf
Eichmann was in Argentina. A team of five Mossad agents slipped into
Argentina and through surveillance, confirmed that he
had been living there under the name of Ricardo Klement. He was abducted on May
11, 1960 and taken to a hideout, where the agents put an SS cap on him and
compared him to a photograph of Eichmann in SS uniform, confirming that it was
Eichmann. He was subsequently smuggled to Israel aboard an El Al flight where
he was tried and executed. Argentina protested what it considered as the
violation of its sovereignty, and the United
Nations Security Council noted that "repetition of
acts such as [this] would involve a breach of the principles upon which
international order is founded, creating an atmosphere of insecurity and
distrust incompatible with the preservation of peace" while also
acknowledging that "Eichmann should be brought to appropriate justice for
the crimes of which he is accused" and that "this resolution should
in no way be interpreted as condoning the odious crimes of which Eichmann is
accused."[6][7] Mossad
abandoned a second operation, intended to capture Josef Mengele.[8]
[edit] United
States
During the 1990s, the Mossad
discovered a Hezbollah
agent operating within the United States in order to procure materials needed
to manufacture IEDs and other weapons. In a joint
operation with U.S. intelligence, the agent was kept under surveillance in
hopes that he would betray more Hezbollah operatives, but was eventually
arrested.[9]
The Mossad informed the FBI and CIA in August 2001 that
based on its intelligence as many as 200 terrorists were slipping into the
United States and planning "a major assault on the United States."
The Israeli intelligence agency cautioned the FBI that it had picked up
indications of a "large-scale target" in the United States and that
Americans would be "very vulnerable."[10]
However, "It is not known
whether U.S. authorities thought the warning to be credible, or whether it
contained enough details to allow counter-terrorism teams to come up with a
response,"[11]
The Mossad has a history of credibility issues, before and after 9-11[12][13] [14][15] which
continue to influence the perceptions of the reliability or veracity of
information provided to U.S., and other intelligence agencies around the world.
A month later, terrorists struck at the World Trade
Center and the Pentagon.[16]
[edit] Uruguay
Mossad assassinated Latvian Nazi collaborator Herberts Cukurs in 1965.[17]
[edit] Europe
[edit] Austria
The Mossad gathered information on Austrian politician Jörg Haider using a mole.[18]
[edit] Belgium
The Mossad is alleged to be
responsible for the killing of Canadian engineer and ballistics
expert Gerald
Bull on March 22, 1990. He was shot multiple times in the head outside his Brussels
apartment.[19]
Bull was at the time working for Iraq on the Project
Babylon supergun.[20] Others,
including Bull's son, believe that the Mossad is taking credit for an act they
did not commit to scare off others who may try to help enemy regimes. The
alternative theory is that Bull was killed by the CIA. Iraq and Iran are also
candidates for suspicion.[21]
[edit]
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Assisted in air and overland evacuations of Bosnian Jews from war-torn Sarajevo to
Israel in 1992 and 1993.[citation needed]
[edit] Cyprus
The killing of Hussein Al Bashir in Nicosia, Cyprus, in
1973.[22]
[edit] France
The alleged killing of Zuheir Mohsen in 1979.[23]
The alleged killing of Atef Bseiso in Paris in 1992. French police believe that a team of assassins followed Atef Bseiso from Berlin, where
that first team connected with another team to close in on him in front of a
Left Bank hotel, where he received three head-shots at point blank range.[24]
The killing of Yehia El-Mashad in 1980.[25]
The killing of Dr. Mahmoud Hamshari with an
exploding telephone in his Paris apartment in 1972.[22]
The killing of Dr. Basil Al-Kubaissi in Paris in 1973.[22]
The killing
of Mohammad Boudia in Paris in 1973.[22]
On April 5, 1979, Mossad
agents are believed to have triggered an explosion which destroyed 60 percent
of components being built in Toulouse for an Iraqi reactor. Although an environmental
organization, Groupe des écologistes français, unheard
of before this incident, claimed credit for the blast,[2]
most French officials discount the claim. The reactor itself was subsequently
destroyed by an Israeli air strike in 1981.[2][26]
The Mossad allegedly assisted Morocco's
domestic security service in the disappearance of dissident politician Mehdi Ben Barka in 1965, in
exchange for the safety of Moroccan Jews[citation needed].
[edit] Germany
Operation
Plumbat (1968) was an operation by Lekem-Mossad
to further Israel's nuclear program. The German freighter "Scheersberg A", disappeared
on its way from Antwerp
to Genoa along
with its cargo of 200 tons of yellowcake, after supposedly being transferred to an
Israeli ship.[27]
The sending
of letter
bombs during the Operation Wrath of God campaign. Some of these attacks were not fatal. Their purpose might not have been
to kill the receiver. Some of the more famous examples of the Mossad letter
bombs were those sent to Nazi war-criminal Alois Brunner.[28]
The alleged targeted killing
of Dr Wadie Haddad, using poisoned chocolate, in 1978. The
PFLP-EO movement dissolved after his killing[citation needed].
The Mossad discovered that Hezbollah had
recruited a German national named Steven Smyrek, and
that he was travelling to Israel. In an operation conducted by the Mossad, the CIA, the German Internal
Security agency Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz, and
the Israeli Internal Security agency Shin Bet, Smyrek was kept under constant surveillance, and arrested
as soon as he landed in Israel.[29]
[edit] Greece
The killing of Zaiad Muchasi by an explosion in
his Athens hotel room in 1973.[22]
[edit] Italy
The Mossad abducted nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu in Rome and
smuggled him to Israel in 1986 after American-Israeli
Mossad agent Cheryl Bentov lured him
from the United Kingdom.[30]
The killing of Wael Zwaiter.[31][32]
[edit] Malta
The killing of Fathi Shiqaqi. Shiqaqi a leader of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, was shot several times in the head in 1995 in front of the
Diplomat Hotel in Sliema, Malta.[33]
[edit] Norway
Main article: Lillehammer affair
On July 21, 1973, Ahmed
Bouchiki, a Moroccan waiter
in Lillehammer,
Norway, was killed by Mossad agents. He had been mistaken for Ali Hassan Salameh,
one of the leaders of Black September, the Palestinian group responsible for the Munich
massacre, who had been given shelter in Norway. The Mossad agents had used
fake Canadian passports, which angered the Canadian
government. Six Mossad agents were arrested, and the incident became known as
the Lillehammer affair. Israel subsequently paid
compensation to Bouchiki's family.[34][35][36]
[edit] United
Kingdom
In 1986, Mossad used an
undercover agent to lure nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu from the
United Kingdom to Italy where he was abducted and transported to Israel where
he was tried for treason because of his role in exposing Israel's nuclear programme.[36]
Mossad assisted the UK
Intelligence organisation MI5 following the 7/7 bombings in London.
According to the 2007 edition of a book about the Mossad titled “Gideon’s
Spies,” shortly after the 7/7 London underground bombings, MI5 gathered
evidence that a senior al-Qaeda operative known only by the alias Mustafa
travelled in and out of England shortly before the 7/7 bombings. For months,
the real identity of Mustafa remained unknown, but in early October 2005,
Mossad told MI5 that this person was, in fact, Azhari
Husin, a bomb-making expert with Jemaah
Islamiyah, the main al-Qaeda affiliate in Southeast
Asia. Husin studied in Britain and reports claim that
he met the main 7/7 bomber, Mohammad Sidique Khan, in
late 2001 in a militant training camp in the Philippines (see Late 2001). Meir
Dagan, the head of Mossad, apparently also told MI5 that Husin
helped plan and recruit volunteers for the bombings. Mossad claimed that Husin may have been in London at the time of the bombings,
and then fled to al-Qaeda’s principal haven in the tribal area of Pakistan,
where he sometimes hid after bombings. Husin was
killed in a shootout in Indonesia in November 2005.[37] Later
official British government reports about the 7/7 bombings did not mention Husin.[38]
[edit] Switzerland
In February 1998, five Mossad agents were caught wiretapping
the home of a Hezbollah
agent in a Bern
suburb. Four agents were freed, but the fifth was tried, found guilty,
sentenced to one year in prison, and following his release was banned from
entering Switzerland for five years.[39]
[edit] Soviet
Union/Russia
The Mossad was involved in
outreach to Refuseniks in the Soviet Union during the crackdown on Soviet Jews in the 50's, 60's, 70's,
and 80's. Mossad helped establish contact with Refuseniks
in the USSR, and helped them acquire Jewish religious items, banned by the
Soviet government, in addition to passing communications into and out of the
USSR.
[edit] Ukraine
In February 2011, a
Palestinian engineer, Dirar Abu Seesi,
was allegedly pulled off a train by Mossad agents enroute to the capital Kiev from Kharkov. He had
been planning to apply for Ukrainian citizenship, and reappeared in an Israeli
jail only 3 weeks after the incident.[40]
[edit] Middle
East
[edit] Egypt
·
Provision of intelligence for
the cutting of communications between Port Said and Cairo in 1956.
·
Mossad spy Wolfgang
Lotz, holding West German citizenship,
infiltrated Egypt in 1957, and gathered intelligence on Egyptian missile sites,
military installations, and industries. He also composed a list of German
rocket scientists working for the Egyptian government, and sent some of them
letter bombs. After the East German head of state made a state visit to Egypt,
the Egyptian government detained thirty West German citizens as a goodwill
gesture. Lotz, assuming that he had been discovered,
confessed to his cold war espionage activities.
·
Provision of intelligence on
the Egyptian Air Force for Operation
Focus, the opening airstrike of the Six-Day War.
·
Operation Bulmus 6 –
Intelligence assistance in the Commando Assault on Green Island, Egypt during the War
of Attrition.[citation needed]
·
Operation Damocles - A campaign of assassination
and intimidation against German rocket scientists employed by Egypt in building
missiles.
[edit] Iran
Prior to the Iranian Revolution of 1978–79, SAVAK (Organization
of National Security and Information), the Iranian secret
police and intelligence service was created under the guidance of United
States and Israeli intelligence officers in 1957 to protect the regime of the shah by arresting, torturing, and executing the
dissidents (especially Leftists). After security relations between the United
States and Iran grew more distant in the early 1960s which led the CIA training team to
leave Iran, Mossad
became increasingly active in Iran, "training SAVAK personnel and carrying
out a broad variety of joint operations with SAVAK."[41][42]
The Mossad discovered Iran's covert nuclear program before it officially became
known, and conducted espionage operations against nuclear facilities in the
country.
A US intelligence official
told The Washington Post that Israel
orchestrated the defection of Iranian general Ali
Reza Askari on February 7, 2007.[43] This has
been denied by Israeli spokesman Mark Regev. The Sunday Times reported that Askari had been a Mossad asset since 2003, and left only
when his cover was about to be blown.[44]
Le Figaro
claimed that the Mossad was possibly behind a blast at the Iranian
Revolutionary Guard's Imam Ali military base, on 12 October 2010. The explosion
at the base killed 18 and injured 10 others. The base is believed to store
long-range missiles, including the Shahab-3, and
also has hangars. It is one of Iran's most secure military bases.[45]
Iranian Intelligence Minister Heydar Moslehi has accused Mossad
of assassination plots and killings of Iranian Physicists in 2010. Reports have
noted that such information has not yet been evidently proven. Iranian state TV
broadcast a stated confession from Majid Jamali-Fash, an Iranian man who claimed to have visited
Israel to be trained by the Mossad.[46]
The Mossad is believed to have
assassinated Masoud Alimohammadi, Ardeshir Hosseinpour, Majid Shahriari, and Darioush Rezaeinejad, scientists involved in the Iranian nuclear program. It is also
suspected of being behind the attempted assassination of Iranian nuclear
scientist Fereydoon Abbasi.[47][48]
[edit] Iraq
Former Iraqi MiG-21, currently on display at the Israeli Air Force Museum in Hatzerim
Assistance in the defection
and rescuing of the family of Munir Redfa, an Iraqi pilot who
defected and flew his MiG-21 to Israel in 1966: "Operation
Diamond". Redfa's entire family was also
successfully smuggled from Iraq to Israel. Previously unknown information about
the MiG-21 was subsequently shared with the United States.
Operation Sphinx[2]
– Between 1978 and 1981, obtained highly sensitive information about Iraq's Osirak
nuclear
reactor by recruiting an Iraqi nuclear scientist in France.
Operation Bramble Bush II – In the 1990s,
the Mossad began scouting locations in Iraq where Saddam
Hussein could be ambushed by Sayeret Matkal commandos
inserted into Iraq from Jordan. The mission was called off due to Operation Desert Fox and the ongoing
Israeli-Arab peace process.
[edit] Jordan
In what is thought to have
been a reprisal action for a Hamas suicide-bombing in Jerusalem on July 30,
1997 that killed 16 Israelis, Benjamin Netanyahu authorised
an operation against Khaled Mashal,
the Hamas representative in Jordan.[49] On
September 25, 1997, Mashal was injected in the ear
with a toxin (thought to have been a derivative of the synthetic opiate Fentanyl
called Levofentanyl).[50][51]
Jordanian authorities apprehended two Mossad agents posing as Canadian tourists
and trapped a further six in the Israeli embassy. In exchange for their
release, an Israeli physician had to fly to Amman and deliver an antidote for Mashal. The fallout from the failed killing eventually led
to the release of Sheik Ahmed Yassin,
the founder and spiritual leader of the Hamas movement, and scores of Hamas
prisoners. Netanyahu flew into Amman on September 29 to apologize personally to
King Hussein, but was met instead by the King's brother, Crown Prince Hassan.[50]
[edit] Lebanon
The provision of intelligence
and operational assistance in the 1973 Operation Spring of Youth special forces raid on Beirut. The sending of letter bombs to PFLP member Bassam Abu Sharif. Sharif was severely wounded,
but survived.[52]
The targeted killing of Ali Hassan Salameh,
the leader of Black September, on January 22, 1979 in Beirut by a car
bomb.[53][54]
The killing of Ghassan Kanafani, also by a
car bomb, in 1972.[55]
Providing intelligence for the
killing of Abbas al-Musawi,
secretary general of Hezbollah, in Beirut in 1992.[22]
Allegedly killed Jihad Ahmed Jibril,
the leader of the military wing of the PFLP-GC, in Beirut in 2002.[56]
Allegedly killed Ghaleb Awwali, a senior
Hezbollah official, in Beirut in 2004.[57]
Alllegedly killed Mahmoud al-Majzoub, a leader of Palestinian Islamic Jihad, in Sidon in
2006.[58]
The Mossad was suspected of
establishing a large spy network in Lebanon, recruited from Druze, Christian,
and Sunni
Muslim communities, and officials in the Lebanese government, to spy on Hezbollah and
its Iranian Revolutionary Guard
advisors. Some have allegedly been active since the 1982
Lebanon War. In 2009, Lebanese Security Services supported by Hezbollah's
intelligence unit, and working in collaboration with Syria, Iran, and possibly
Russia, launched a major crackdown which resulted in the arrests of around 100
alleged spies "working for Israel".[59]
Previously, in 2006, the Lebanese army uncovered a network that allegedly
assassinated several Lebanese and Palestinian leaders on behalf of Israeli
intelligence agency Mossad.[60]
[edit] Pakistan
In a September 2003 news
article, it was alleged by Rediff News that General Pervez Musharaf, the
then-President of Pakistan, decided to establish a clandestine relationship
between Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and Mossad via officers of the two
services posted at their embassies in Washington, DC.
In January 2009 it was alleged
by Indian news agencies that Mossad officers lead a rescue mission to extract
an Indian former member of parliament and an Israeli cultural attache who where arrested on the
charges of producing methamphetamine.
[edit] Syria
Eli Cohen,
a spy for the Mossad, infiltrated the highest echelons of the Syrian
government, was a close friend of the Syrian President, and was considered for
the post of Minister of Defense. He gave his Mossad handlers a complete plan of
the Syrian defenses on the Golan Heights, the Syrian Armed Forces order of
battle, and a complete list of the Syrian military's weapons inventory. He also
ordered the planting of trees by every Syrian fortified position under the
pretext of shading soldiers, but the trees actually served as targeting markers
for the Israel Defense Forces. He was discovered by Syrian and Soviet
intelligence, tried in secret, and executed in 1965.[61] His
information played a crucial role during the Six Day War.
The alleged killing of Izz El-Deen Sheikh Khalil, a senior
member of the military wing of Hamas, in an automobile booby trap in September 2004 in Damascus.[62]
The alleged killing of Muhammad
Suleiman, the alleged head of Syria's nuclear program, in 2008. Suleiman was killed by a sniper firing from a boat while on a beach in Tartus.[63]
The alleged killing of Imad Mughniyah, a senior
leader of Hezbollah complicit in the 1983 United States embassy bombing,
with an exploding headrest in Damascus in 2008.[64]
[edit] United
Arab Emirates
Main article: Assassination of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh
The Mossad is suspected of
killing Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, a senior Hamas military commander, in January
2010 at Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The team which carried
out the killing is estimated, on the basis of CCTV and other evidence, to have
consisted of at least 26 agents traveling on bogus passports. The operatives
entered al-Mabhouh's hotel room, where Mabhouh was subjected to electric shocks and interrogated.
The door to his room was reported to have been locked from the inside.[65][66][67][68][69] Although
the UAE police and Hamas have declared Israel responsible for the killing, no
direct evidence linking Mossad to the crime has been found. The agents' bogus
passports included six British passports, cloned from those of real British
nationals resident in Israel and suspected by Dubai, five Irish passports,
apparently forged from those of living individuals,[70] forged
Australian passports that raised fears of reprisal against innocent victims of
identity theft,[71]
a genuine German passport and a false French passport. Emirati police say they
have fingerprint and DNA evidence of some of the attackers, as well as retinal
scans of 11 suspects recorded at Dubai airport.[72][73] Dubai's
police chief has said "I am now completely sure that it was Mossad,"
adding: "I have presented the (Dubai) prosecutor with a request for the
arrest of (Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu and the head of
Mossad," for the murder.[74]
[edit] Africa
[edit] Morocco
In September 1956, the Mossad established a secretive network in Morocco to
smuggle Moroccan Jews to Israel after a ban on immigration to
Israel was imposed.[75]
In early 1991, two Mossad
operatives infiltrated the Moroccan port of Casablanca
and planted a tracking device on the freighter Al-Yarmouk,
which was carrying a cargo of North Korean missiles bound for Syria. The ship was
to be sunk by the Israeli Air Force, but the mission was later
called off by Prime Minister Yitzhak
Rabin.[76]
[edit] Tunisia
The 1988 killing of Khalil al-Wazir (Abu Jihad).[77]
The alleged killing of Salah Khalaf in 1991.[78]
[edit] Uganda
For Operation Entebbe in 1976, Mossad provided
intelligence regarding Entebbe International Airport[79] and
extensively interviewed hostages who had been released.[80]
[edit] South
Africa
After the Mossad discovered
the presence of two Iranian
agents in Johannesburg on a mission to procure advanced weapons
systems from Denel,
a Mossad agent was deployed, and met up with a local Jewish contact. Posing as
South African intelligence, they abducted the Iranians, drove them to a
warehouse, and beat and intimidated them before forcing them to leave the
country.[81]
[edit] Sudan
After the 1994
AMIA bombing, the Mossad began gathering intelligence for a raid by Israeli
Special Forces on the Iranian
embassy in Khartoum
as retaliation. The operation was called off due to fears that another attack
against worldwide Jewish communities might take place as revenge. The Mossad
also assisted in Operation Moses, the evacuation of Ethiopian
Jews to Israel from a famine-ridden region of Sudan in 1984, also
maintaining a relationship with the Ethiopian government.
[edit] Zimbabwe
The Mossad secretly evacuated
Zimbabwean Jews out of the country due to fears of persecution by the
Zimbabwean government, which was allied with the Palestine Liberation Organization
and Libya.[when?] The
Mossad infiltrated the Zimbabwean government's Central Intelligence Organization,
in response to the supply of uranium from the Congo via Zimbabwe to North Korea,
Syria, and Iran.[citation needed]
[edit] Oceania
[edit] New
Zealand
Further information: Israel-New Zealand relations
In July 2004, New Zealand
imposed diplomatic sanctions on Israel over an incident in which two
Australian based Israelis, Uriel Kelman
and Eli Cara, who were allegedly working for Mossad, attempted to fraudulently
obtain New Zealand passports by claiming the identity
of a severely disabled man. Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom later apologized to New Zealand for their
actions. New Zealand cancelled several other passports believed to have been obtained
by Israeli agents.[82]
Both Kelman and Cara served half of their six-month
sentences and, upon release, were deported
to Israel. Two others, an Israeli, Ze'ev Barkan, and a New Zealander, David Reznick,
are believed to have been the third and fourth men involved in the passport
affair but they both managed to leave New Zealand before being apprehended.[83]