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The Dubai Job page 1
One year ago, an elite Mossad hit squad traveled to Dubai to kill a high-ranking member of Hamas. They completed the mission, but their covers were blown, and Israel was humiliated by the twenty-seven-minute video of their movements that was posted online for all the world to see. Ronen Bergman reveals the intricate, chilling details of the mission and investigates how Israel's vaunted spy agency did things so spectacularly wrong
Monday, January 18, 2010. Morning
At 6:45 a.m., the first members of an Israeli hit squad land at Dubai International Airport and fan out through the city to await further instructions. Over the next nineteen hours, the rest of the team at least twenty-seven members will arrive on flights from Zurich, Rome, Paris, and Frankfurt. They have come to kill a man named Mahmoud Al-Mabhouh, a Hamas leader whose code name within the Mossad the Israeli intelligence agency is Plasma Screen.
Most of the operatives here are members of a secretive unit within the Mossad known as Caesarea, a self-contained organization that is responsible for the agency's most dangerous and critical missions: assassinations, sabotage, penetration of high-security installations. Caesarea's "fighters," as they are known, are the elite of the Mossad. They rarely interact with other operatives and stay away from Mossad headquarters north of Tel Aviv, instead undergoing intensive training at a separate facility to which no one else in the agency has access. They are forbidden from ever using their real names, even in private conversation, and with the exception of their spouses their families and closest friends are unaware of what they do. As one longtime Caesarea fighter recently told me, "If the Mossad is the temple of Israel's intelligence community, then Caesarea is its holy of holies."
In the course of reporting this story, GQ has learned that this is Caesarea's second attempt to kill Al-Mabhouh. On a previous trip to Dubai two months earlier, in November 2009, the same team tried to poison him. It is not known precisely how the team administered the toxin in their first attempt, though the suspicion is that they either slipped it into a drink or smeared it on one of the fixtures in his hotel room. Al-Mabhouh fell mysteriously ill but eventually recovered, and was never aware he'd been poisoned by Israeli operatives. This time, nothing will be left to chance; it has been determined in advance that the team will leave Dubai only after they have confirmed with their own eyes that Plasma Screen is dead.*
Al-Mabhouh has been on the Mossad's list of assassination targets (see box on page 40) since 1989, after he and an accomplice named Muhammad Nasser abducted and murdered two Israeli soldiers near the Negev Desert in southern Israel. In an interview he gave to the Al Jazeera network, Al-Mabhouh recalled one of those killings in detail. "We disguised ourselves as religious Jews with skullcaps on our heads like rabbis," he said. He went on to describe picking up the soldier, Avi Sasportas, at a place called Hodayah Junction and offering him a ride. "I was driving, and the door behind me was neutralized. We took care of that beforehand. I told him in Hebrew, 'Get in on the other side, the door's broken.' He walked around and sat in the back seat. I and Abu Sahib [Nasser] had a predetermined signal. We had fixed that at the right moment I would make a sign with my hand, because I could see what was happening on the road in front and behind. And indeed, about three kilometers after the crossroads I signaled to Abu Sahib. Abu Sahib shot him with his Beretta pistol. I heard him breathe heavily and die. He took two bullets in the face and one in the chest and died from the first shot. Breathed out and that's it, finished." The only thing he regretted, Al-Mabhouh said, was that he was driving the car at the time, and so it was Nasser who got to shoot the soldier in the face.
In both killings, the two men desecrated the soldiers' bodies and photographed each other stomping triumphantly on them before burying them in a ditch by the roadside. (The body of the second soldier wasn't discovered until seven years later, with the aid of a hand-drawn map that Al-Mabhouh and Nasser had sketched from memory after the killing. In a deal mediated by the Palestinian Authority, Nasser eventually handed over the sketch to Israel, and in exchange he was removed from Israel's most-wanted list.)
The need to eliminate Al-Mabhouh, however, has only intensified over time, not just out of a desire to avenge the deaths of the two soldiers but because of his longtime role in the militant activities of Hamas financing and planning suicide bombings in Israel and the trafficking of huge amounts of rockets and sophisticated weaponry into Gaza, which have been used to devastating effect since the start of the second intifada in 2000. Support for Hamas's terrorist activities has come largely from the extremist Quds Force (part of Iran's Revolutionary Guard), with whom Al-Mabhouh has formed closer and closer ties over the years. In the mind of Mossad chief Meir Dagan, liquidating Al-Mabhouh is worth the risk of sending such a large team on a mission into a hostile country, though the wisdom of this choice will be severely questioned in the aftermath of the job.
* Israel has not confirmed nor has it denied that this mission was carried out by the Mossad, though no one seriously doubts that to be the case. The sequence of events described here is based largely on the exhaustive investigation conducted by the Dubai chief of police, Lieutenant General Dhahi Khalfan Tamim. In-depth interviews were conducted with former and current members of the Mossad and with high-ranking intelligence experts in Israel and Europe. The Mossad, in response to the long list of questions submitted formally by GQ, stated that it does not comment on its activities or those attributed to it.
http://bit.ly/g9i92s 8 jan 2011, 02:36 , Respect -
Maria The Dubai Job page 2
In 1997 the Mossad tried to assassinate Khaled Mashal, the political leader of Hamas, by spraying a chemical agent on his ear as he walked down a street in Amman, Jordan. The mission failed and the two Mossad members were captured when Mashal turned in the street to greet his daughter at the moment the assassins sprayed the poison. In order to win the release of their operatives, Israel handed over the antidote to the poison and also freed from prison the spiritual leader and founder of Hamas, Sheikh Yassin. In a humiliating blow to the agency, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was forced to admit that the Mossad plot had been a terrible failure. For the next several years, morale within the agency plummeted, and its reputation for daring and success was tarnished.
Then, in 2002, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon tapped Dagan, a former military commander with a reputation for ruthless, brutal efficiency, to restore the spy agency to its former glory and preside over, as he put it, "a Mossad with a knife between its teeth." "Dagan's unique expertise," Sharon said in closed meetings, "is the separation of an Arab from his head." Dagan immediately announced that the Mossad would devote most of its resources to what he considered the two key threats to Israel's survival: the Iranian nuclear program and terrorism from the Iranian-supported groups Hezbollah, Hamas, and Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
The number and frequency of covert operations increased dramatically. There were several acts of sabotage of the Iranian nuclear program: two mysterious crashes of Iranian aircraft associated with the program, fires breaking out at two important laboratories, damage inflicted upon Iranian nuclear centrifuges, and the disappearance of two Iranian scientists and the killing of a third. There was also a mysterious explosion at a Syrian plant where Scud missiles were being fitted with chemical warheads, and the Mossad is credited with the discovery of a nuclear reactor in Syria, built with North Korean assistance, whose existence the Syrian authorities had managed to conceal for over five years. (The Syrian nuclear facility was subsequently destroyed by the Israeli Air Force in September 2007 after the United States proved reluctant to do so.)
The number of complex targeted assassinations carried out by the Mossad also increased under Dagan. The most high-profile of these was the elimination in Damascus of Imad Mughniyeh, Hezbollah's military chief. Among other terrorist acts, Mughniyeh was responsible for the bombing of the U.S. embassy and the Marine barracks in Beirut in 1983, and the bombings in Buenos Aires of the Israeli embassy in 1992 and a Jewish cultural center in 1994. In February 2008 his head was blown off by an explosive device that had been planted in the driver's-side headrest of his rental car. Dagan's Mossad is also believed to be responsible for the death of General Mohammed Suleiman, a close aide of Syria's President Bashar Al-Assad, who headed that country's nuclear program and handled military cooperation with Iran, Hamas, and Hezbollah. Suleiman was killed in the Syrian city of Tartus in August 2008 by a sniper's bullet that hit him as he stood on his balcony after his daily swim. (According to other reports, he was shot by the sniper as he swam in the sea with his bodyguards.)
Because of these successes, Dagan's tenure as director of the Mossad was repeatedly extended, most recently by Benjamin Netanyahu in October 2009, and today he is one of the longest-serving directors in Israel's history. Notorious for his aggressive, verbally abusive style of leadership, he is an ideologically rigid man who, according to several people inside the organization, shows the door to anyone who dares to voice an opinion different from his. As one Mossad veteran told me, "It is extremely difficult to get your opinion heard in his presence, unless it supports his. He is unable to accept criticism or even another opinion. It's almost as if he treats his opposition like an enemy." Dagan is also reported to have stated on several occasions that he does not believe there is anyone within the Mossad today who is worthy to replace him.
Several Mossad operatives who have attended meetings in Dagan's office describe a ritual that he goes through when preparing a team for a dangerous mission. During the meeting, Dagan points to a large photograph hanging on his office wall of a bearded Jew wrapped in a prayer shawl, kneeling on the ground with his arms in the air. The man's fists are clenched, and his piercing eyes look straight ahead. Next to him stand two German SS officers, one holding a club and the other a pistol. "This man," Dagan says, "was my grandfather, Dov Ehrlich." He then explains that shortly after the photo was taken, on October 5, 1942, his grandfather was murdered by the Nazis along with his family and thousands of other Jews in the small Polish town of Lukow.
"Look at this photograph," Dagan tells the Caesarea fighters. "This is what must guide us and lead us to act on behalf of the State of Israel. I look at the picture and vow that I will do everything I can to ensure that something like this will never happen again."
Tuesday, January 19, 2010. Before dawn
The mission will be run by operatives working under the assumed names Gail Folliard, Kevin Daveron, and Peter Elvinger, who arrive in Dubai in the very early hours of the nineteenth. They immediately go to separate hotels, where Folliard and Daveron pay for their rooms in cash, but most of the other team members are using a prepaid credit card called a Payoneer, a fact that will be significant to the investigation to come. Counting the unsuccessful attempt to poison Al-Mabhouh in November, this is the team's fifth trip to Dubai in the past nine months. The purpose of the other trips was to do surveillance and to verify beyond any doubt that the man they intend to kill is indeed Mahmoud Al-Mabhouh. This is not a simple matter. Back in July 1973, a Caesarea hit team on a mission to liquidate the head of the Palestinian terrorist organization Black September the group responsible for the murders of eleven Israeli team members at the Munich Olympics mistakenly killed a Moroccan waiter in Lillehammer, Norway. The killers were caught and spent years in jail, and the Israeli government paid substantial damages to the victim's family. The reputation of the Mossad and of Israel was badly harmed by the botched mission, and since then the agency has implemented complex mechanisms to ensure that they never make such a mistake again.
http://bit.ly/h8ybch
8 jan 2011, 02:42 , Respect -
Maria The Dubai Job page 3
Israeli spies have been monitoring Al-Mabhouh's e-mail and online activities through a Trojan horse planted on his computer (and possibly through a human source who has betrayed him, though Hamas rejects this theory), and they know he will be arriving in Dubai later today. At ten thirty, Elvinger strolls through a Dubai mall, where he is soon joined by five other team members. A little more than an hour later, their meeting breaks up and the group disperses. The only thing they can do until Al-Mabhouh's arrival is review plans and contingencies and wait to see how their target's movements unfold. As one veteran of Caesarea field operations told me, "In this type of assassination, when the target is not in his home base and is not following a daily routine, it is the target who dictates to the killers how and when he will be killed."
As far as the Mossad is concerned, there are two types of countries in the world. There are "base countries" (essentially, the West), in which the Mossad, like most other intelligence agencies, is able to operate with relative ease. In these countries, operatives have access to multiple getaway routes in case of emergency (and there are Israeli embassies to escape to as a last resort); it is assumed that if a Mossad spy is caught in a base country, a discreet solution can likely be found with the assistance of the local intelligence services an option referred to in the Mossad as the "soft cushion"). "Target countries," however, are enemy states in which operating undercover is significantly more dangerous. There are no easy escape routes (and no friendly embassy to run to), and being caught in these countries will almost certainly result in physical torture and either a protracted jail term or, quite possibly, death. Given that Al-Mabhouh is based in Syria and that the countries he regularly visits are Iran, Sudan, and China, it makes sense that Dubai, while undeniably a target country, is the location of choice for such a mission.
Afternoon
Al-Mabhouh is expected to land in Dubai at 3 p.m. At 1:30, Kevin Daveron leaves his hotel and heads to the team's designated meeting place the lobby of a different hotel, where none of the team members is staying, that was selected in advance for its convenient location. On the way to the meeting, he walks through the lobby of a third hotel and enters the restroom. When he emerges, he is no longer bald but now has a full head of hair and is wearing glasses. The security camera outside the entrance to the men's and women's bathrooms was recording all of this in real time. Had an alert guard noticed what was going on, the mission might have ended quite differently, with the target alive and the team members imprisoned in a hostile country.
Gail Folliard also leaves her hotel and on her way to the meeting uses the same restroom entrance as Daveron, from which she too emerges in a wig. Oddly, Folliard and Daveron are the only ones at the meeting who have changed their appearances. Given that the operatives are under the constant gaze of security cameras throughout the city, the "new" Daveron and Folliard run the risk of being linked to the "old" Daveron and Folliard through the identity of the individuals they've met with and passed by throughout the day the kind of mistake that is almost incomprehensible for an elite Mossad team to make.
By two thirty, there are surveillance teams located at the entrances to every hotel Al-Mabhouh has stayed at on past trips to Dubai. There is also a team posted at the airport, ready to follow him into the city.
Al-Mabhouh is also traveling under a false identity. His Palestinian passport (the Palestinian Authority issues travel documents that are not recognized for travel to most countries but are valid in Dubai) identifies him as Mahmoud Abdul Ra'ouf Mohammed and gives his occupation as a "merchant."
At three twenty-five, two men standing in the lobby of the glitzy Al Bustan Rotana Hotel, dressed in tennis gear and holding rackets, report to the command team that their target has arrived and is checking in. The news of his arrival is conveyed to all the teams waiting at the other hotels, and they now return to the central meeting place. In the Al Bustan, Al-Mabhouh takes the elevator to his room, and the two Mossad operatives, tennis rackets still in hand, ride up in the same elevator. One of them follows Al-Mabhouh down the corridor at a discreet distance, in order to confirm his room number and to get a sense of the layout of the hotel floor.
A little after four o'clock, the command team, with the exception of Elvinger, makes its way to the Al Bustan. Elvinger takes a car to another hotel and places two phone calls from its business center. The first is to the front desk of the Al Bustan, to book a room for the night. He requests room 237, which the surveillance team has reported is directly across the corridor from 230. His second call is to an airline to reserve a seat on an evening flight to Zurich via Qatar.
In the lobby of the Al Bustan, the surveillance team relays that the target is exiting the hotel and heading to a nearby mall, the same one in which Elvinger met the group of team members earlier. It is here that the recording of events from the Dubai police investigation becomes uncharacteristically vague. Until now, the authorities have established a clear, detailed timeline. By studying hundreds of hours of closed-circuit security footage, they have meticulously reconstructed the movements of the many characters involved in the unfolding drama. But when Al-Mabhouh arrives at the mall, the river of information suddenly goes dry. What did he do during the next four hours, which were to be the last of his life? Where did he go? With whom did he meet? The official report does not provide even a sketchy outline of the missing hours.
http://bit.ly/gmVykX 8 jan 2011, 02:44 , Respect -
Maria The Dubai Job page 4
According to Israeli intelligence sources, Al-Mabhouh met with a banker who was assisting him with various international weapons transactions, and with his regular contact from the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, who flew in to coordinate the delivery of two large shipments of weapons to Hamas the following month. The Dubai police had good reason to gloss over this part of the narrative, if they were indeed aware of it. Providing details of Al-Mabhouh's contacts would have been highly embarrassing to authorities eager to paint Dubai as a squeaky-clean international business center. It would also have served as a reminder that the victim of this cold-blooded Israeli execution had a fair amount of blood on his hands, raising inconvenient questions about why Al-Mabhouh was there in the first place questions that the media largely forgot to ask in the furor that erupted after his assassination.
Late afternoon
At four twenty-seven, Peter Elvinger enters the lobby of the Al Bustan carrying a small suitcase. He walks over to where Kevin Daveron is sitting, places the suitcase beside him, and then heads to the reception desk, where he checks in and receives the key to the room that he booked by phone earlier that afternoon. He then walks back to Daveron, hands him the key to room 237, and exits the hotel without retrieving his suitcase. Elvinger's role in the operation is now over. By seven thirty, he will be at the airport preparing to leave the country.
For the next several hours until the operation is completed Daveron and Folliard are in command. At four forty-five, Daveron crosses the lobby, taking the suitcase with him, and rides the elevator up to the second floor. A few minutes later, Folliard arrives at the Al Bustan and goes straight up to 237.
At five thirty-six, another operative arrives in the lobby wearing a baseball cap; minutes later, he emerges from the elevator on the second floor wearing a wig. He too goes to 237. At approximately six thirty, four more men enter the hotel and go up to the room in pairs. Two of the men are carrying bags, and all four wear baseball caps that partially conceal their faces. These are the men who will carry out the assassination.
Evening
Just before six forty-five, the surveillance team in the lobby of the Al Bustan is replaced. After sitting for four hours in the lobby, rackets in hand, the fake tennis players finally leave the scene. At 8 p.m., the seven-person group in 237 makes its move. Daveron and Folliard stand guard in the corridor while one of the other operatives reprograms the electronic lock on the door of 230. The intention is to rig the mechanism so that the hit men can enter the room using an unregistered electronic key while also being careful not to accidentally disable Al-Mabhouh's own key.
There are some questions about timing that are worth pausing over here. Why did the assassins wait an hour and a half in 237 before breaking into Al-Mabhouh's room? And why did they arrive at the hotel at six thirty, two hours after Al-Mabhouh left for the mall and Daveron got the key to room 237? The long delay suggests two things: first, that the team knew exactly what Al-Mabhouh's schedule was and how long he would be away from the hotel. (Presumably they wanted to postpone entry into Al-Mabhouh's room for as long as possible, so as not to run the risk of someone else, such as a maid, entering unexpectedly.) And second, it suggests considerable confidence in the ability of their operative to disable the electronic lock on Al-Mabhouh's door. The speed with which he did this indicates that this part of the operation was extremely well rehearsed. And since the team did not know in advance which hotel Al-Mabhouh would be staying at, one has to assume that as part of his preparation for the mission, the lock picker practiced disabling every type of lock in use in all the major hotels in Dubai.
At this delicate moment, as the team is beginning to break into Al-Mabhouh's room, they are temporarily disturbed by a hotel guest who steps off the elevator on the second floor. The footage from the security cameras shows Daveron quickly moving toward him, blocking his line of sight and engaging him in idle conversation. When the guest finally walks off, it's clear that the lock tampering has been successful. Daveron and Folliard return to 237, and the assassins enter 230 to wait for their target.
At eight twenty-four, Al-Mabhouh returns to the hotel and goes straight to his room, passing Daveron in the elevator bank and Folliard in the corridor. He has no reason to be suspicious his key works as it should, and the door bears no visible sign of forced entry. Once he is inside, Daveron and Folliard stand guard.
Twenty minutes later, it is over. The assassins exit room 230, somehow managing to leave the room chained from the inside. The team meets briefly in 237, presumably to gather their things and report back to the command center outside Dubai; then they begin to exit. The assassins are the first to leave. Minutes later, Folliard follows arm in arm with another operative, and Daveron is the last to emerge from room 237. Within four hours, most of the team has left Dubai.
http://bit.ly/ePeEj7 8 jan 2011, 02:46 , Respect -
Maria The Dubai Job page 5
What occurred in room 230 during those twenty minutes? How did Mahmoud Al-Mabhouh die? It's impossible to know for sure. As in the attempt on Al-Mabhouh's life two months earlier, the Mossad wanted his death to appear to be due to natural causes. This was critical, as it would buy the Caesarea fighters precious time to leave the emirate before the alarm was sounded. A "noisy" kill would set off a wide-scale manhunt that would result in the temporary shutdown of Dubai International Airport (and of air traffic in and out of Dubai in general), trapping the Mossad operatives inside the country. With nowhere to hide and no way to escape, they would almost certainly have been apprehended. And once in the hands of the Dubai police, there would have been considerable pressure on the authorities to punish them to the full extent of the law, which in Dubai would have likely meant death sentences for at least some of those involved. There would have been little the Mossad or Israel could have done to save its operatives.
According to the official police report, the killers first injected Al-Mabhouh with a poison, then smothered him with a pillow. Saeed Hamiri, M.D., of the Dubai forensic lab, said the crime-scene investigators found a trickle of blood on Al-Mabhouh's pillow, bruises on his nose, face, and neck, and an injection mark on his right hip. Along with signs of struggle in the room a damaged headboard, for example these details would seem to suggest that the target was smothered to death. But one has to wonder about the plausibility of these conclusions. (The Dubai chief of police did not respond to several requests from GQ for an interview.)
Given how vital it was to this mission that Al-Mabhouh's death appear natural, it's doubtful that the Caesarea fighters would have planned to smother him in his room. If indeed there was a struggle and the chronology of events raises serious doubts about the details in the police report the question is whether it occurred before the poison was administered or while it was taking effect. The drug purportedly used was succinylcholine, which, if administered in a large enough dose, leads to total muscular paralysis and, once the muscles necessary for breathing cease functioning, to asphyxia and death. According to toxicology experts I spoke with, however, the drug is also detectable in the body long after death, and it's hard to believe that the Mossad operatives wouldn't be aware of this. If they were and chose to use the drug anyway, it speaks perhaps to their assumptions about what type of investigation they expected would take place, or if one would take place at all.
There is good reason to believe, however, that to this day the Dubai police are not sure how Al-Mabhouh died. In terms of their forensic medical evidence, they may in fact be unable to prove he was murdered. Their investigation, after all, was triggered not by autopsy findings which, according to sources connected to the Dubai police, were inconclusive but by the evidence contained in CCTV footage.
When Al-Mabhouh's body was discovered by a hotel maid, at around one thirty the following afternoon, roughly seventeen hours after he'd been killed, there was at first no reason to suspect foul play. Because he had been using a false passport, the police had no initial inkling of who he really was. It was only when Al-Mabhouh failed to contact his headquarters in Damascus that his Hamas colleagues began to suspect something was wrong and sent one of Al-Mabhouh's men to the Dubai city morgue, where he was shocked to discover his commander's body.
It was at that point, approximately a week after his death, that the Hamas leadership in Damascus contacted Lieutenant General Dhahi Khalfan Tamim, chief of the Dubai Police, and informed him that they believed Al-Mabhouh had been killed by the Mossad. According to European intelligence sources, Tamim's initial reaction was to rage at them on the phone, verbally abusing senior Hamas officials for using Dubai as a battleground for espionage and terrorism. "Take yourselves and your bank accounts and your weapons and your forged fucking passports and get out of my country," he reportedly shouted. Once he calmed down, though, a cursory review of the hotel-security footage from the cameras outside room 230 at the time of Al-Mabhouh's death convinced Tamim that he needed to open an investigation immediately.
So it may well be that the authorities first arrived at the conclusion that Al-Mabhouh was assassinated and only then revisited and adjusted their pathology findings so as to avoid admitting to the world that, despite their massive investment in the state-of-the-art security systems that blanket the country, they were unable to say with any certainty how Al-Mabhouh had died. In a press conference held on February 15, Tamim announced that Al-Mabhouh had been killed by a hit squad and announced that their forensic tests indicated that he'd been suffocated. Lab tests, he said, were still under way. Nearly two weeks later, on February 28, he announced the discovery of the exact cause of death. That Al-Mabhouh's body was reportedly sent back to Syria on January 28, however, and buried after a big funeral procession on January 29, calls into question these findings.
http://bit.ly/ii6Y0G - 7 jan 2011
Mossad tracked target with trojan, email
Nearly a year ago, a senior member of Hamas died in a hotel in Dubai. Local police blamed Israel's elite intelligence agency, Mossad, and posted a 27-minute video showing activities of the victim and what are identified as Israeli operatives inside the hotel before and after the alleged assassination.
Now, a GQ feature unveils details about the operation, how the victim had survived a poisoning attempt two months earlier and how such an advanced group of spies were unmasked by simple hotel video cameras and other standard security measures. http://bit.ly/g9i92s
Israeli officials have not confirmed or denied that Mossad carried out the mission: "No one seriously doubts that to be the case," according to the GQ article.
Not surprisingly, the early stages of the operation appear to have involved the use of the internet. Israeli spies learned Mahmoud Al-Mabhouh would be arriving in Dubai on 19 January 2010, by monitoring his email and online activities via a trojan horse planted on his computer, according to GQ. http://bit.ly/gmVykX
The spies part of a secretive unit within the Mossad known as "Caesarea" didn't know what hotel Al-Mabhouh would be staying at, so they staked out different hotels he was known to visit.
When he is spotted arriving at the Al Bustan Rotana Hotel, the operatives converged there and used various disguises to track his movements and get into his room. They must not have been too concerned about video surveillance cameras in the hotel as they were caught on camera talking to each other, standing in the lobby in tennis gear with rackets for hours, and exchanging room keys and suitcases. Dubai police studied hundreds of hours of closed-circuit security footage to reconstruct the activities of the operatives and Al-Mabhouh.
One operative is seen in the footage reprogramming the electronic lock to Al-Mabhouh's room so they can use an unregistered electronic key on the door without disabling Al-Mabhouh's key. It's unclear, though, how the operatives managed to leave the room with the door chained on the inside, according to the article.
The operatives were linked to each other by their comings and goings at the hotel on the video footage, guest registers during that and previous Al-Mabhouh visits, the use of prepaid debit cards issued by a company whose chief executive is a veteran of an elite Israeli Defense Force commando unit, and the use of a private switchboard in Austria that connected the operatives' phone calls without them having to call each other directly, the report said. The operatives also used forged foreign identities.
"False identities and cover stories are no longer any match for well-placed security cameras, effective passport control, and computer software that can almost instantly track communications and financial transactions," the article said.
http://bit.ly/g6XIkF
MOSSAD BEHIND EGYPT CHURCH BLAST
by: Hassan Hanizadeh
The explosion at a church in the Egyptian city of Alexandria, which left 21 people killed and another 80 Muslims and Christians wounded, raises one question: Who was behind the blast?
Although, at first glance, the finger is pointed at extremist Wahabi or Salafi groups, it goes without saying that no Muslim, whatever their political leanings may be, will ever commit such an inhumane act.
Attacks on churches in Egypt, Lebanon, Iraq and Tunisia can be analyzed in the context of a Zionist scenario aimed at driving a wedge between Muslims and Arab Christians.
Since the emergence of Islam, Muslims and Christians in the East have always coexisted peacefully as Islam pays due respect to the freedom of divine faiths especially Christianity.
In Egypt, too, Muslims and Christians are living in peace and harmony. Never, ever have the Christians in Egypt complained of any problems keeping them from carrying out their religious duties.
The fresh plot by terrorists to target churches is an organized Zionist scenario aimed at creating a rift between Muslims and Christians.
Following its intelligence and security failures in Egypt and the apprehension of a number of Mossad agents by Egyptian intelligence apparatus, the Zionist regime of Israel is set to exact vengeance on the Egyptian nation.
For years, Israel and the United States have resorted to radical groups with no affiliation to divine faiths to carry out acts of terror against Christians in Islamic countries.
Based on this scenario, the Israeli regime urges deviant anti-religion groups to conduct terrorist operations against Christians.
Such a process will create a chasm between Christians and Muslims, which, in turn, usually tends to reinforce the desire among Christians to establish an independent government and steer clear of the central government.
Political experts believe that the U.S., the Israeli regime and Britain have crafted a long-term joint security program in the Middle East and North Africa to downsize the world of Islam and disintegrate the countries there.
Part of the scenario is to divide Sudan into northern and southern parts, split Egypt into a Christian-populated country and a Muslim-populated one and trigger a new civil strife in Lebanon among Shias and Sunnis.
Therefore, North Africa is now faced with fresh political developments, namely a plebiscite to determine whether or not the north of the country should be separated from the south.
A referendum supervised by the United Nations and the European Union is slated to be held in southern Sudan on January 9 to decide whether or not the region should break away from the central government.
The West, including the United States, is making the preliminary arrangements for the vote, which is a foregone conclusion as people in south Sudan backed by Washington and the EU are sure to give a strong yes to autonomy.
The establishment of a non-Arab Christian government in the heart of Islamic Sudan will result in the Israeli regime infiltrating into the east bank of the river Nile, only to be a pain in the neck for Muslim nations in North Africa.
After south Sudan is separated from the north, the Israeli regime will, thanks to its physical presence on the ground, take control of the water flow in the river and hold the 11 countries on both sides of the Nile to political ransom.
Leaders in south of the African country had already announced they would establish broad political relations with Tel Aviv once they break away from the north.
Another scenario on the West's agenda is to lay the groundwork for the formation of a Coptic government in Upper Nile in Egypt.
Given the peaceful coexistence between Coptic Christians and Muslims in Egypt, it is not possible to turn the former against the latter without first psychologically inciting them.
Suicide attacks on churches in Egypt and the killing of Christians are part of the psychological warfare launched by the US, the UK and Israel to divide Christians and Muslims.
Therefore, the recent scuffles between Muslims and Christians in Naj' Hammadi region in Qena governorate in southern Egypt as well as the blast at the Alexandria church are a prelude for the dangerous Western-engineered scenario to unfold in one of the key Islamic-Arab nations.
Following last year's bloody battles in Naj' Hammadi, over 15,000 Coptic Christians residing in the United States staged a protest rally, calling for Western countries to step in to help them.
Coptic Christians wrote more than 4,000 letters to U.S. President Barack Obama the same day, calling for a halt to what they called Egyptian Muslims crackdown on Christians.
Such circumstances will undermine the grounds for peaceful coexistence between Egyptian Muslims and Christians, and set the scene for Coptic Christians inside Egypt to change their outward view.
All the existing evidence proves that the Alexandria church explosion, though appearing to have been carried out by extremist groups, is the handiwork of the Israeli intelligence service Mossad.
Hassan Hanizadeh is editorialist of the Tehran Times.
The fact is lost on no one that the United States, Britain and the Israeli regime have what it takes to provoke ethnic and religious divisions in Islamic nations.
Therefore, if the Egyptian people, Muslims and Christians alike, do not react to Israeli plots, they will unintentionally get involved in a civil war, which could lead to Egypt's disintegration.
Source: Press TV
http://bit.ly/hA8Hp4
Ex-Mossad agent: Israel uses 'false flag' in most operations to avoid suspicion in Arab states.
Mossad 'Regularly' Faked Australian Passports
SYDNEY - Israel's Mossad has regularly faked Australian passports for its spies, an ex-agent said on Thursday, as anger grew over the use of foreign travel documents for an alleged assassination.
Former Mossad case officer Victor Ostrovsky told ABC public radio that the spy agency had used Australian passports for previous operations before last month's assassination of a top Hamas commander in Dubai that has been blamed on Israel.
He said agents had little trouble passing themselves off as Australians as few people in the Middle East have much knowledge about the country.
"Consider the fact that Australians speak English and it's an easy cover to take, very few people know very much about Australia," he said.
"You can tell whatever stories you want. It doesn't take much of an accent to be an Australian or New Zealander, or an Englishman for that matter.
"And I know people had been under Australian cover not once (but) quite a few times. So why not use it (again)?"
Australia summoned the Israeli ambassador and warned that the countries' friendly ties were at risk after Dubai police named three Australian passport-holders in a list of new suspects in the murder of Mahmud al-Mabhuh.
Britain, Ireland, France and Germany expressed similar outrage after people holding documents from their countries were also linked to the January 20 killing in a luxury Dubai hotel.
Israel has previously dismissed claims from Ostrovsky, who is now an author and has detailed various accusations against the country in his books.
He said Mossad prefers to use "false flag" passports as Israeli papers frequently invoke suspicion in the Middle East.
"They need passports because you can't go around with an Israeli passport, not even a forged one, and get away or get involved with people from the Arab world," he said.
"So most of these (Mossad) operations are carried out on what's called false flag, which means you pretend to be of another country which is less belligerent to those countries that you're trying to recruit from."
Ostrovsky said Mossad had a "very, very expensive research department" dedicated to manufacturing the fake documents which simulates different types of paper and ink.
"If they create a passport at a top level for use of that nature... I don't think anybody will be able to find the difference," he said, adding there was no chance any of the people named as suspects were Mossad agents.
"Except for James Bond, who actually pronounces or announces his arrival at the scene by saying, 'I'm Bond, James Bond', most people who work in the intelligence field don't present themselves by their real name," he said.
The Australian newspaper said Ali Kazak, a former Palestinian representative to Australia, had warned in 2004 that a Mossad agent in Sydney had obtained 25 false Australian passports.
In March 2004, two suspected Mossad agents were arrested in New Zealand and later convicted for fraudulently trying to obtain passports from the country, prompting diplomatic sanctions.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=17853 10 jan 2011, 23:45 , Respect -
Maria 10 jan 2011
Iran: 'Mossad assassin' reveals training methods
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8PPBv5Wz1c
Taught how to follow people.'
Man Tehran says was behind nuclear scientist's assassination tells Iranian TV of how he was taken to guarded facility outside Tel Aviv, trained in explosives, surveillance.
A man suspected of spying for Israel and assassinating an Iranian nuclear scientist was exposed on Iranian television Monday.
The suspect, Majid Jamali Fesh (28), said he had visited Tel Aviv and met with senior Israeli security officials. He also said he was trained in explosives.
The man, who Iran claims is a Mossad agent, did not say in the television interview when he visited Tel Aviv. "I was taught how to follow people, avoid being followed myself, and how to plant bombs on the bottom of under cars," he said.
The suspect, who was referred to as a "terrorist" by Iranian TV, said, "We traveled from Tel Aviv along the fast highway to Jerusalem, and a half-hour later we reached the headquarters."
The suspect described the facility as being surrounded by a 3-4 kilometer (1.9-2.5 mile) wall with numerous cameras installed on it. He did not specifically mention Mossad during the interview.
Masoud Ali-Mohammadi
The suspect also said that during his stay at the facility outside Tel Aviv he was given the home address of Iranian nuclear scientist Masoud Ali-Mohammadi and details about the neighborhood, "so that I would be completely familiar with the area and the operational conditions of the assassination."
Earlier Monday, Iranian television reported that authorities had arrested a "network of spies" linked to Israel's intelligence service. Iran said the network was behind the assassination of Ali-Mohammadi.
A remote-controlled bomb killed the Tehran University scientist in the Iranian capital on January 12, 2010.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said the scientist was killed in 'Zionist style' and promised to avenge his death.
"We uncovered important and sensitive information and espionage teams and Mossad operations, and as a result we dealt a major blow to the Zionist regime's intelligence and security organizations," state television quoted a statement issued by the Intelligence Ministry as saying.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4011845,00.html
11 jan 2011
Iran presents: Equipment used by 'Mossad spies'
Laptop with secure system
Intelligence minister showcases computer, weapons allegedly given to suspected spies by Mossad. 'We obtained good intelligence, managed to locate people linked to Zionist regime,' he says during press conference in Tehran.
The Islamic Republic's Intelligence Ministry on Tuesday publicly exhibited computers, weapons and secret equipment allegedly used to carry out the assassination of an Iranian nuclear scientist last year.
The Iranian government claimed that the computer used by the assassins were encrypted so they could contact their operators while staying outside of the country.
The ayatollahs' regime claimed on Monday that it had arrested more than 10 people on suspicion of involvement in the murder of Masoud Ali Mohammadi %u2013 a senior physician who was killed in Tehran last year after a booby-trapped motorcycle was placed near his home.
Forging equipment revealed at press conference
Iranian Intelligence Minister Heidar Moslehi convened a special press conference on Tuesday to announce the discovery, and presented the reporters with equipment that Mossad allegedly gave the secret agents.
Among the items was a laptop computer, which according to Irna news agency was confiscated during the arrest of the suspected spies.
The reporters were also presented with several guns and ammunition, as well as the instrument in which the assassins allegedly hid the explosives that killed Prof. Mohammadi.
The Iranian minister also displayed "spying equipment designed to make videos and pictures, a radio transmitter, a box with documents and equipment to forge documents."
During the press conference, Moslehi noted that Iranian intelligence managed to infiltrate Israeli intelligence services and trace Mossad agents who he said were operating in Iran.
Weapons allegedly supplied by Mossad
"We obtained good intelligence and managed to penetrate into the intelligence of this regime, on order to locate people who are linked to the Zionist regime," he added.
The Iranian TV network broadcasted on Monday an interview with 28-year-old Majid Jamali Fash, one of the key suspects arrested for his links to the spying network.
During the interview, Fash claimed he traveled to Tel-Aviv and met a number of senior IDF officers.
"I received sabotage training," he said, but did not reveal the date of his visit to Israel.
"I was trained how to follow and avoid being followed, as well as how to attach a bomb underneath a vehicle," he said during the televised "confession".
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4012307,00.html
Iranian minister discusses infiltration to Mossad
One of the 'agents' arrested
In Tehran press conference Iranian Intelligence Chief Heidar Moslehi reveals how Islamic Republic exposed Israeli spy network, says 10 suspects linked to Mossad arrested.
Iranian Intelligence Minister Heidar Moslehi said Tuesday that Iranian intelligence managed to infiltrate Israeli intelligence services and trace Mossad agents who he said were operating in Iran. He said that 10 people were arrested on suspicion of being involved in the assassination of a nuclear scientist in Tehran last year.
In a press conference in Tehran, Moslehi provided more details on the exposure of the spy network allegedly responsible for the assassination of Masoud Ali Mohammadi. "Iranian intelligence infiltrated the Zionist regime's intelligence system and located the regime's networks," he said. "We aquired solid intelligence and managed to place our people in the regime's intelligence in order to trace people connected to the Zionist regime."
Masoud Ali Mohammadi
The Iranian official did not miss the opportunity to slam Israel calling it a "terrorist regime."
Moslehi addressed an interview given by one of the supposed spies Monday and said he was linked to one of the terrorist networks. The Iranian minister noted there were other networks which cannot be exposed as they are still being investigated.
He also mentioned the June post-election riots. "An intelligence gold mine was created in Iran and the enemies sought to take advantage of that. They thought that because of the riots the Iranian intelligence was busy with the elections."
Moslehi warned any nations cooperating with Israel in such plots that Iran would consider them "bases for terrorist jobs" and threats to the entire Middle East. He said that all high ranking scientists in the region were in risk of being targeted by Israel. "Our intelligence achievements prove that the Zionist regime opposes the scientist progress in Islamic countries and nations in the reion," he said, explaining his reason for Israel's alleged actions.
On Monday, Iran announced its probe into the January 2010 slaying of physics professor Masoud Ali Mohammadi had led its agents to infiltrate the Mossad and uncover other plots.
Mohammadi was killed by a bomb-rigged motorcycle parked outside his house. Possible explanations have never been clear, particularly as he had no known link to Iran's nuclear work.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4012108,00.html
12 jan 2011
Iran: Spies didn't know about each other
Islamic Republic's intelligence minister says team that assassinated nuclear scientist in January 2010 was not involved in similar incident in November. Two killings were only operations carried out by Mossad on Iranian soil in 2010, he adds.
Iranian Intelligence Minister Heidar Moslehi on Wednesday offered new details on the assassination of two nuclear scientists in his country, stressing that two separate teams were involved in the two incidents.
According to Moslehi, the team of assassins arrested on suspicion of being involved in the January 2010 incident was not involved in the second killing, which took place about two months ago. He added that those were the only two assassinations committed by the Israeli Mossad in Iran in the past year.
The Iranian government announced Monday that it had arrested more than 10 people in connection with the assassination of senior physicist Prof. Masoud Ali Mohammadi with a booby-trapped motorcycle activated outside his house on January 12, 2010.
The main suspect in the assassination, Majid Jamali Fash, confessed to the allegations in a television interview and spoke about his recruitment to the Israeli secret service.
The Iranian intelligence minister was asked at the end of Wednesday's cabinet meeting in Tehran whether the suspects had also been involved in the assassination of another nuclear scientist later in the year.
"They were compartmentalized and didn't know about each other," Moslehi responded. Physicist Majid Shahriari was killed on November 29 after motorcyclists attached explosive devices to a car he was travelling in. Another scientist, Dr. Fereidoun Abbasi, was injured the same day in a similar assassination attempt.
Moslehi provided additional details on the Iranian investigators' suspicions. Asked by reporters whether the Mossad had carried out any additional operations in Iran in a direct manner, he replied, "Only in these assassinations."
According to the minister, the spies arrested in Mohammadi's assassination are all of Iranian descent. Jamali Fash is suspected of committing the murder itself, while the other detainees are suspected of aiding him.
"The man who rented him an apartment, the man who sold him the motorcycle, and the man who planted the bomb %u2013 none of them knew about each other," Moslehi said.
On Tuesday, the Islamic Republic's Intelligence Ministry publicly exhibited computers, weapons and secret equipment allegedly used to carry out the assassination of the Iranian nuclear scientist last year.
The Iranian government claimed that the computers used by the assassins were encrypted so they could contact their operators while staying outside of the country.
On Monday, Iranian TV broadcast an interview with Jamali Fash, who claimed he had traveled to Tel Aviv and met a number of senior IDF officers. "I received sabotage training," he said, but did not reveal the date of his visit to Israel.
"I was trained how to follow and avoid being followed, as well as how to attach a bomb underneath a vehicle," he said during the televised "confession".
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4012670,00.html 15 jan 2011, 19:52 , Respect -
Maria 15 jan 2011
Egypt postpones trial of suspected Mossad agent
Trial of Egyptian businessman Tareq Abdelrazek delayed after lawyer resigns, citing his refusal to represent a 'traitor.'
The trial of an Egyptian man charged with spying on behalf of Israel was postponed on Saturday, after his lawyer withdrew from the case saying his client was a "traitor."
The Emergency State Security court postponed the hearing until Monday to allow the suspect, Tareq Abdelrazek, to hire a new lawyer.
Two Israelis, accused of spying on Egypt, will be tried in absentia.
The court session was held amid tight security. More than 500 soldiers were deployed around the court house, while nearby streets were cordoned off.
In December, Abdelrazek was arrested and charged with working for Israel's intelligence service, the Mossad, and supplying them with information about Egyptian citizens.
Abdelrazek, who owns an import-export company, is also accused of attempting to recruit spies in Syria and Lebanon for Mossad. He allegedly received 37,000 dollars from Israel for his activities.
Emergency courts do not provide the right to an appeal
http://bit.ly/haFyka
16 jan 2011
Germany issues new arrest warrant for Israeli suspect in Dubai hit
Uri Brodsky, who was released on bail in Germany last year, is suspected of involvement in assassination of Hamas official Mahmoud al-Mabhouh; Dubai authorities claim at least 27 Mossad operatives were involved in hit.
Germany has issued a new arrest warrant for an Israeli national suspected of involvement in the assassination of Hamas official Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, according to a report published in Der Spiegel. The man, who has been identified as Uri Brodsky, was released on bail in Germany in August 2010.
Brodsky allegedly helped obtain a German passport used by one of the assassins, a man identified as Michael Bodenheimer, to enter Dubai prior to the assassination there a year ago. Dubai authorities claim at least 27 Mossad operatives were involved in the hit.
According to foreign media reports, in 2009 "Brodsky" helped "Bodenheimer" to obtain a German passport through a Cologne law firm. The passport application indicated that Bodenheimer was entitled to a German passport because his parents were victims of Nazi persecution. In his dealings with the law firm, and when he entered Germany, Brodsky reportedly used the name Alexander Verin.
Brodsky was arrested on June 4, 2010 at Warsaw's international airport, on the basis of a German arrest warrant. Six weeks later he was extradited to Germany. After less than 24 hours in jail there, he was released on bail of 100,000 euro.
According to Der Spiegel, the count of passport forgery was removed from Brodsky's charge sheet in exchange for a 60,000 euro fine.
The charges against Brodsky in the new arrest warrant were not specified in the report in the German weekly.
http://bit.ly/ed82pF
18 jan 2011
Israel Spies Trial
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUW3E0haPrs
The trial of an Israeli Spy ring is underway in Cairo. The accused are an Egyptian in police custody and two Israeli officers who are being tried in absentia. The men face charges of gathering information on Arab countries' telecommunication networks for Israel.
Press TV's May Kamel reports from Cairo. 3 feb 2011, 09:09 , Respect -
Maria 31 jan 2011
Iran: Mossad enlists through Arad website
Moslehi: Severe penalties for spies
Intelligence minister warns youth against 'falling prey' to promises of cash rewards for information.
Iranian Intelligence Minister Heidar Moslehi claims that the Born to Freedom Foundation, which offers a cash reward for information on Ron Arad, is actually a branch of Mossad working to enlist spies from Iran and other Arab countries.
Moslehi adds that his ministry has discovered the identities of Iranian citizens who gave the foundation information on the missing navigator and used them to reveal inner workings of the Israeli intelligence agency.
"The Zionist regime is interested in finding spies in different countries using this site, and enlisting them in order to lead its intelligence operations in Muslim states," he said.
Moslehi also called on Iranian youth not to "fall prey" to the foundation's tactics. "The Zionist website is meant to attract youths to espionage," he said, adding that Iranian intelligence has found "a large number of people who made contact with this site".
"We used some of these people in order to penetrate Mossad bases and that is how we have made use of them," Moslehi told IRNA.
Ron Arad. Missing since 1986
The Born to Freedom Foundation offers $10 million to anyone who hands it information leading to the whereabouts of Ron Arad, missing since 1986, or any other missing Israeli soldier.
But the minister claims that Iranian citizens who cooperated were misled. "Anyone who cooperated with the site and asked for money after handing over information was made fun of by the managers of the site," Moslehi said.
He also urged others who may have cooperated to turn themselves in. "Those who do not come forward will get severe penalties in court," he warned. "The Ministry of Intelligence gives citizens good protection and prevents the Zionist regime's organizations from leading them astray."
Recently Iran announced it had uncovered an Israeli spy ring which was responsible for the assassination of nuclear scientist Massoud Ali Mohammadi in Tehran last year. Iranian television aired an interview with the main suspect, who said he was enlisted and trained by Mossad.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4021571,00.html
3 febr 2011
Egyptian woman: Mossad used me to topple Mubarak regime
Pro-government TV channel interviews woman who claims she was sent to Qatar by US organization, trained by 'Israelis and Jews'. Why confess? Mubarak 'was like father to me', she says.
'Israeli connection' to Egypt riots? A young Egyptian woman claims that the Mossad trained her to assist in bringing down Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's regime. In an interview with Egypt's Al Mehwar network the woman, who noted that her facebook page was extremely popular, said that she was sent by an American organization to be specially trained "by Israelis and Jews" in Qatar.
The woman remained anonymous and was interviewed with her voice distorted and her face blurred. She told of her training and financial support from an American organization called Freedom House. She claims that her trainers were Jews and Israelis whose main job was recruiting "young and unexperienced" students from universities.
The organization is well known, and its website states that its purpose is to "support the expansion of freedom around the world" and that it was founded by "prominent Americans concerned with the mounting threats to peace and democracy".
According to the young woman, after her initial recruitment, she was sent to Doha in Qatar with a group of other young people for the next stage in the process. "We received intensive training for four days. The trainers had different citizenships but a predominant number among them were Israelis," she said.
At the end of the interview the woman was asked what led her to confess her secret activities. At this point, she burst into tears and answered that President Mubarak was "like a father to me," which is why she decided to share what happened to her.
Protests in Cairo escalated to violence after Mubarak's supporters started to confront the opposition supporters in al-Tahrir Square. At least five people were killed and according to doctors' reports, the number of those injured at the square reached 1,500. Mubarak announced that he would not be running for another term in office in the next elections, but protestors are demanding his immediate resignation.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4023319,00.html
18 febr 2011
Mossad agent Mike Harari implicated in Bali bombing, 9/11 - check out his false passports!
Moshe Ivgy played Mossad agent Mike Harari in Steven Spielberg's Munich (2005)
Did Steven Spielberg turn the man who organized the Bali hotel bombing - and the mass slaughter of 9/11 - into a Hollywood hero?
Spielberg's 2005 film Munich follows the exploits of Mossad agent Mike Harari (played by Moshe Ivgy) as he attempts to track down and kill the Black September guerrillas who organized the kidnapping of Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics in 1972.
According to former Soviet nuclear weapons specialist Dmitri Khalezov, the real-life Mike Harari befriended him while the two were living in Thailand in 2001, effectively admitted to organizing 9/11, then later tried to set Khalezov up to take the rap for 9/11-related crimes. (For details, check out my latest, two-hour interview with Khalezov and Gordon Duff which will soon be archived here; or my earlier interviews with Duff and Khalezov; or Khalezov's book.)
According to Khalezov, Mike Harari was arrested by Thai police for organizing the Bali hotel bombing, which Khalezov, like Australian journalist Joe Viallis (who was allegedly murdered for his trouble) says was done with a Mossad micro-nuke. Khalezov says Harari was arrested under the name Hadji Mohamed Husseini. Below are Khalezov's pictures of Mike Harari and his Thai "concubine," copies of the false passports Harari used (which Khalezov obtained from Thai police records of Harari's/"Husseini's" arrest), and a disputed TV image of a much younger Harari.
Dmitri Khalezov responds to a questioner about why the TV image above doesn't look like Khalezov's Harari:
Harari's arrest
I don't think that there are could be a lot of photos with Mike Harari, especially "well known" ones. This guy is not so stupid, actually. What is known to me (also from him personally, but also from other
serious people) that in 1990 (well before the Internet became widely used) the Israeli Government in the most official manner kindly requested all mass media outlets all over the world to surrender all pictures of Mike Harari to the Israeli state (citing some plausible reasons and supporting the request with some cash, of course), and not to keep any copies of them. And after that successful operation Harari was more than careful not to allow anyone to have his pictures.
Alleged TV image of a younger Harari (disputed by Khalezov)
I am actually quite a rare person who managed to obtain a couple of his real photos. In 2005 (after I was released from prison) I attempted to find some pictures of Mike Harari in his younger age desperately searching the Internet. I was not able to find any. And I repeated these searches at least twice a year. At one moment I noticed that one of the old picture with Noriega has appeared, but I am not quite sure if it is really genuine and not a part of the Mossad pre-emptive disinformation game. But when it comes to the picture of him on the TV-screen this one was not available I guess till very recent. And the fact of its appearance could be counted as a disinfo operation as well.
Harari's concubine
To be honest with you I have never seen Harari before 2001 and I have no clue how he looked like before, since I have never seen his previous pictures either, but only saw his character portrayed by various actors in various movies (most importantly - by a Soviet-Georgian actor Vakhtang Kikabidze in the famous KGB-sponsored serial "TASS was authorized to declare"). That is why I simply have no chance to compare his former pictures with the new ones due to the total absence of the former (thanks to the careful policy of the Mossad described above).
That is why to claim that there are "well known pictures of Mike Harari" is a bit bold claim, in my humble opinion. If such "well known pictures" of him do exist, they are certainly not in the wilderness of the Internet, but exclusively inside secret files of a few lucky secret-services.
Harari's Guinean diplomatic passport (with his handwritten note)
All I could say that the guy I have a picture of is indeed Mike Harari, simply because it can't be anyone else. Mike Harari is such a unique person, with such a unique biography, such a unique character, and
variety of other unique personal features, that you can't simply find any other man that could pass for him and to perfectly match all Harari's actual features (including his ability to assassinate American colonels in the Philippines and his ability to invite an Israeli Ambassadors to his apartment for a drink, for example).
How many Israeli people do you actually know who are about ~1927 year of birth, know perfect French, English, reasonable Spanish, recently arrived from the Philippines to Bangkok (because of the murder committed there against an American colonel), leaves in the compound guarded by the Israeli security, has penchant for diplomatic passports, claims to be the best friend of Khun Sa, Cao Ky, Noriega and Bush Senior, and also invites the local Israeli Ambassador to visit him in his apartment?
Harari's passport
If it is not Mike Harari, then who it is? That is why you don't have to doubt - the man I knew in Bangkok in 2001-2003 is Mike Harari and no one else. It is not 100%, it is 101%. And the photo I have is of that man. But you have to be prepared - the Mossad (and the French alike, and I guess the CIA as well) will deny it of course. And will plant various "innocently looking" [dis]info that will cast doubt on what I claim. So, don't be surprised if you see something like this.
http://truthjihad.blogspot.com/2011/02/mossad-agent-mike-harari-implicated-in.html
Lebanon sentences Israel spy to death
A military court in Lebanon has sentenced a man to death after finding him guilty of spying for Israel's intelligence service, Mossad.
According to the charge sheet, Amin Ibrahim al-Baba, a Lebanese, was convicted of providing Mossad with information that aided Israeli attacks on Lebanon in 2006.
"A military court has sentenced Amin Ibrahim al-Baba to death ... for contacting Israeli intelligence and providing information that aided Israeli attacks on Lebanon," a judicial official told AFP on Friday.
He was also found guilty of spying on Lebanon's Hezbollah Resistance Movement and the Islamic Jihad for several years and passing on the sensitive information about the movements to Israel in return for money.
The charge sheet said the information that Baba had transferred to Mossad facilitated the assassination of brothers Mahmud and Nidal Mazjoub of the Islamic Jihad movement in 2006.
He was also found guilty of entering Lebanon's archenemy, Israel. Lebanon and Israel are technically in a state of war.
Baba, 44, was arrested in the southern coastal city of Sidon in April 2006, when Beirut launched a nationwide crackdown on Israeli spy cells.
So far, more than 100 people, including members of the country's security forces and telecommunications personnel, have been arrested on suspicion of spying for Israel's notorious intelligence service.
A number of the suspects have admitted to their role in helping Israel identify targets inside Lebanon, mostly belonging to Hezbollah, which Tel Aviv heavily bombed during its 2006 war against the country.
If convicted, the spies will face life sentences with hard labor. Should they be found guilty of contributing to the loss of Lebanese life, the agents will face the capital punishment.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/165837.html 24 feb 2011, 13:40 , Respect -
Maria 24 febr 2011
Woman accuses Mossad after husband went missing in Ukraine
KIEV, (PIC)-- A Ukrainian woman has pointed the finger at the Israeli Mossad after the suspicious disappearance of her husband on February 18.
Dirar Abu Seesi, chief operating officer of the Gaza Strips power station, had gone missing while taking the train during a visit to Ukraine, the local Raed media center reported.
"I accuse the Mossad of kidnapping my husband because I know all Palestinians are targeted, Abu Seesi`s wife Aqila said, adding that her husband has no political ties.
"My husband shares no hostility with any figures in Palestine or the Ukraine, and he`s not wealthy or a big businessman so that he would be abducted by a gang, she said.
According to Raed, the operator of the train where Abu Seesi was last seen as well as another employee had made statements that two hours after departure two unidentified plain-clothed men produced security IDs and escorted Abu Seesi off the train. But the witnesses later switched accounts under pressure from local police denying a train abduction that night.
According to rights activist in the Ukraine, there are no cooperation agreements between the Ukrainian intelligence and its Israeli counterpart the Mossad. He stressed that if the latter was behind Abu Seesi`s disappearance, it would raise a number of questions regarding the Mossads activities in the Ukraine.
http://bit.ly/eH8IRB