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Gerald Celente Feb 2010

Mossad's License To Kill

The Mossad assassins could have felt only satisfaction when the news broke that they had succeeded in killing Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, a top Hamas military commander, in Dubai last month.

The Israeli government's refusal to comment on the death has once more gained worldwide publicity for Mossad, its feared intelligence service. Its ruthless assassinations were made famous by the film Munich, which detailed Mossad's attacks on the terrorists who killed Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympics. Long ago, the agency had established that silence is the most effective way to spread terror among its Arab enemies.

Al-Mabhouh had moved to the top of Mossad's list of targets, each of which must be legally approved under guidelines laid down over half a century ago by Meir Amit, the most innovative and ruthless director-general of the service. Born in Tiberius, King Herod's favourite city, Amit had established the rules for assassination.

"There will be no killing of political leaders, however extreme they are. They must be dealt with politically. There will be no killing of a terrorist's family unless they are also directly implicated in terrorism. Each execution must be sanctioned by the incumbent prime minister. Any execution is therefore state-sponsored, the ultimate judicial sanction of the law. The executioner is no different from the state-appointed hangman or any other lawfully-appointed executioner."

I first met Amit in 2001 and through him, I talked to the spies of Mossad, thekatsas, and finally, to the assassins, the kidon, who take their name from the Hebrew word for bayonet. They helped me write the only book approved by Mossad, Gideon's Spies. Amit said the book "tells like it was – and like it is".

Amit showed me a copy of those rules at our first meeting. After two years of training in the Mossad academy at Herzlia near Tel Aviv, each recruit to thekidon is given a copy.

The killing in Dubai is a classic example of how Mossad goes about its work. Al-Mabhouh's 11 assassins had been chosen from the 48 current kidon, six of whom are women.

It has yet to be established how al-Mabhouh was killed, but kidon's preference is strangling with wire, a well-placed car bomb, an electric shock or one of the poisons created by Mossad scientists at their headquarters in a Tel Aviv suburb.

The plan to assassinate Mahmoud al-Mabhouh had been finalised in a small conference room next to the office of Meir Dagan, who has run Mossad for the past eight years. The 10th director-general, Dagan has a reputation as a man who would not hesitate to walk into a nameless Arab alley with no more than a handgun in his pocket.

Only he knows how many times he has asked a prime minister for legal permission to kill a terrorist who could not be brought to trial in an Israeli court, along with the kidon to whom he shows the legally stamped document, the licence to kill.

Mahmoud al-Mabhouh's name had been on such a document, which would have been signed by Benyamin Netanyahu. That, like every aspect of a kidon operation, would be firmly denied by a government spokesman, were he to be asked. This has not stopped Dubai's police chief, Lt-General Tamin, from fulminating against the Israeli prime minister.

Two years ago this week, Dagan sent a team of kidon to Damascus to assassinate Imad Mughniyeh. His Mossad file included details of organising the kidnapping of Terry Waite and the bombing of the US Marine base near Beirut airport, killing 241 people. The United States had placed a £12.5 million bounty on his head. Dagan just wanted him dead.

Mossad psychiatrists, psychologists, behavioural scientists, psychoanalysts and profilers – collectively known as the "specialists" – were told to decide the best way to kill Mughniyeh.

They concluded that he would be among the guests of honour at the Iranian Cultural Centre celebrations in 2008 for the celebration of the Khomeini Revolution. The team rigged a car-bomb in the headrest of the Mitsubishi Pajero they discovered Mughniyeh had rented, to be detonated by a mobile phone. As Mughniyeh arrived outside the Culture Centre at precisely 7pm on February 12, the blast blew his head off.

At Mughniyeh's funeral in Beirut, his mother, Um-Imad, sat among a sea of black chadors, a sombre old woman, who wailed that her son had planned to visit her on the day after he died. She cried out she had no photograph to remember him by. Two days later she received a packet. Inside was his photograph. It had been posted in Haifa.

The list of kidon assassinations is long and stretches far beyond the Arab world. In their base deep in the Negev Desert – the sand broken only by a distant view of Israel's nuclear facility at Dimona – the kidon practise with a variety of handguns, learn how to conceal bombs, administer a lethal injection in a crowd and make a killing look accidental.

They review famous assassinations – the shooting of John F Kennedy, for example – and study the faces and habits of potential targets whose details are stored on their highly restricted computers. There, too, are thousands of constantly updated street plans downloaded from Google Earth.

Mossad is one of the world's smallest intelligence services. But it has a back-up system no other outfit can match. The system is known as sayanim, a derivative of the Hebrew word lesayeah, meaning to help.

There are tens of thousands of these "helpers". Each has been carefully recruited, sometimes by katsas, Mossad's field agents. Others have been asked to become helpers by other members of the secret group.

Created by Meir Amit, the role of the sayanim is a striking example of the cohesiveness of the world Jewish community. In practical terms, a sayan who runs a car rental agency will provide a kidon with a vehicle on a no-questions basis. An estate agent sayan will provide a building for surveillance. A bank manager sayan will provide funds at any time of day or night, and a sayandoctor provides medical assistance.

Any of these helpers could have been involved in the assassination of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh. Mossad has recently expanded its network of sayanim into Arab countries.

A sayan doctor in the West Bank provided details of the homoeopathic concoction Yasser Arafat used to drink. When he died in 2004, his personal physician, Dr al-Kurdi, said "poisoning is a strong possibility in this case".There have been reports that more than a dozen terrorists have died from poisoning in the past five years,.

Within the global intelligence community, respect for Mossad grew following thekidon assassination of Dr Gerald Bull, the Canadian scientist who was probably the world's greatest expert on gun-barrel ballistics. Israel had made several attempts to buy his expertise. Each time, Bull had made clear his dislike for the Jewish state.

Instead he had offered his services to Saddam Hussein, to build a super-gun capable of launching shells containing nuclear, chemical or biological warheads directly from Iraq into Israel. Saddam had ordered three of the weapons at a cost of $20 million. Bull was retained as a consultant for a fee of $1 million.

On the afternoon of March 20, 1990, the sanction to kill Bull was given by the then prime minister, Yitzhak Shamir. Nahum Admoni, the head of Mossad, sent a three-man team to Brussels, where Bull lived in a luxury apartment block. Each kidon carried a handgun in a holster under his jacket.

When the 61-year-old Bull answered the doorbell of his home, he was shot five times in the head and the neck, each kidon firing their 7.65 pistol in turn, leaving Bull dead on his doorstep. An hour later they were out of the country on a flight to Tel Aviv.

Within hours, Mossad's own department of psychological warfare had arranged with sayanim in the European media to leak stories that Bull had been shot by Saddam's hit squad because he had planned to renege on their deal.

The same tactics had been placed on stand-by on October 24, 1995, for the assassination of Fathi Shkaki who, like Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, had reached the top of Mossad's target list as a result of his terrorist attacks.

Two kidon – code-named Gil and Ran – had left Tel Aviv on separate flights. Ran flew to Athens, Gil to Rome. At each airport they collected new British passports from a local sayan. The two men arrived in Malta on a late-afternoon flight and checked into the Diplomat Hotel overlooking Valetta harbour.

That evening, a sayan delivered a motorcycle to Ran. He told hotel staff that he planned to use it to tour the island. At the same time, a freighter that had sailed the previous day from Haifa bound for Italy radioed to the Maltese harbour authorities that it had developed engine trouble. While it was fixed, it would drop anchor off the island. On board the boat was a small team of Mossad communications technicians. They established a link with a radio in Gil's suitcase.

Shkaki had arrived by ferry from Tripoli, Libya, where he had been discussing with Colonel Gadaffi what Mossad was convinced was a terrorist attack. The two kidon waited for him to stroll along the waterfront. Ran and Gil drove up on the motorcycle and Gil shot Fathi Shkaki six times in the head. It had become a kidon signature.

When the police came to search Shkaki's bedroom they found a "Do not disturb" sign on his door – a signature that was repeated in last month's Dubai killing.

Gordon Thomas is the author of 'Gideon's Spies'.

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Nizar dan PAS membuat kesilapan strategik?

Apabila keputusan Mahkamah Tinggi di Malaysia membuat keputusan yang memihak kepada Tuanku Al Sultan, Nizar Jamaludin menghamburkan kenyataan yang mempertikaikan keputusan mahkamah (akur tapi mengkiritik) dan melabelkan keputusan tersebut sebagai satu tragedi kepada demokrasi dan yang paling aneh sekali beliau berkata keputusan tersebut akan membawa kepada 'absolute monarchy'. Bagaimana keputusan mahkamah tersebut membawa kepada 'absolute monarchy' tidak dijelaskan. Namun jelas kenyataan akhbar tersebut adalah kenyataan yang penuh emosi

Sekalipun PAS meminta penyokong-penyokongnya bertenang, namun kenyataan yang dikeluarkan oleh pemimpin parti jelas tidak menerima keputusan tersebut. Ini tidaklah menghairankan, namun aku tertanya-tanya adakah PAS membuat kesalahan taktikal dalam dengan tindak balas dan kenyataan akhbar mereka atau memang ada dalam doktrin perjuangan mereka untuk tidak mengiktiraf kerajaan monarki berparlimen atau mereka terlalu angkuh dan 'over estimate' keupayaan mereka.

Katakan kehendak PAS diikuti, dan satu pilihanraya baru dijalankan dan keputusannya masih sama. Ketika itu kuasa melantik MB berada ditangan Sultan, agak-agak PAS apa yang Tuanku Sultan akan lakukan setelah PAS memalukan beliau? Tuanku Sultan melantik MB dari PAS sekalipun DAP menyerahkan senarai mereka. Jawatan MB secara hakiki bukan milik PAS tetapi lantikan atas ikhsan Tuanku Al Sultan, namun tidakan PAS amat berlebihan .

Bukankah lebih bijak PAS berdiam diri dan memperkuat barisan mereka dari menghina Sultan mereka sendiri?. Pilihanraya berlangsung 5 tahun sekali, Jika benar PAS kuat, tak usah mengelabah,giliran pasti sampai, namun aksi Nizar seolah-olah seperti seekor beruk mendapat bunga. Terlajak perahu boleh dialih, terlajak kata nanti jadi celako..celako..celako

Kalau Hidup Dengan Mata Pedang, Maka Matipun Dengan Mata Pedang

Maka ada beberapa pihak telah pergi membuat laporan kepada Polis (yang mereka sangat tidak sukai) tentang beberapa blogger yang telah menghasilkan gambar-gambar pemimpin kesayangan mereka yang telah diedit begitu rupa sehingga menghasilkan gambaran yang sangat tidak manis dan kurang ajar. Begitulah.

Namun yang menghairankan budaya edit-mengedit gambar-gambar ini telah dimulakan oleh blogger-blogger pendokong fahaman mereka tanpa apa-apa sekatan dan laporan polis. Malah puak puak yang membuat laporan polis tadi tersengih-sengih melihat imejan-imejan tersebut didalam blog-blog yang serupa kurang ajarnya dengan blog satu lagi. Malah mereka menghasilkan buku-buku kartun yang dilancarkan secara rasmi oleh pemimpin utama mereka. OK je....

Namun bila terkena batang hidung sendiri mereka lupa pula budaya yang mereka bawa dahulu. Pepatah Inggeris kan ada berkata IF YOU LIVE BY THE SWORD YOU'LL DIE BY THE SWORD.

Jika dahulu kerja menghina orang bila sampai giliran kita kena hina..tahan ajelah. Jika dahulu kita memfitnah orang bila sampai giliran kita difitnah, sabar je lah. Adat hidup memang cam tu. Adat dunia yang bulat sekejap kita kat atas sekejap kita kat bawah. Tanyalah Kickdefella...dahulu dia menendang, bila kena tendang... ok je..

THOSE WHO CANNOT LAUGH AT THEMSELVES LEAVE THE JOB TO OTHERS.

Cellphone and Cigarett- What Do They Have in Common

Something to ponder...

Bila Nik Aziz Mengajak UMNO berbincang pasal Islam...

Ini satu hal yang mengejutkan. Setahu aku PAS sentiasa mempersendakan keislaman UMNO. Satu cara halus untuk memberitahu massa bahawa Islam UMNO adalah Islam plastik.Islam palsu. Momokan ini bukan baru, momokan ini telah bermula berpuluh-puluh tahun dahulu.
Malah mereka mengajak Pemuda UMNO berdialaog dengan tajuk benarkah UMNO berada dilandasan Islam sebenar?

Tiba-tiba Guru Suci PAS hendak mengajak UMNO berdialog pasal Islam?. Kalau Islam UMNO Islam plastik, Islam yang diragukan, Islam momokan, Islam yang diragui landasannya, atas dasar apa pula PAS hendak mengajak UMNO berdialog?. Jika benar PAS hendak berdialog aku nampak dua sahaja kesimpulan. Islam UMNO sama betul dengan Islam PAS atau Islam PAS sama plastik dengan Islam UMNO!.

Adakah mereka akan menghantar ulamak kepala lutut untuk berdialog?

Salam untuk ulamak-ulamak kepala lutut....

Musim dimana semua benda boleh dijual- 2

Hari ini ada berita tersisip di NST dimana Dato' Ahmad Zahid Hamidi mengingatkan pegawai tentera yang menjual maklumat kepada kedutaan negara asing untuk sedikit bayaran akan diambil tindakan. Beliau mengingatkan lagi Military Intelligence memantau pergerakan mereka.

Nampaknya kita tidak berpuas hati dengan sekadar menjual ayat-ayat Al Quran sahaja. Kita kini sanggup menjual maklumat keselamatan negara untuk sedikit keuntungan. Pak Menteri hanya memberi amaran kosong sahaja. Begitulah halnya dengan negara yang sudah semakin rosak dan rapuh.Pada pendapat aku mereka yang menjual maklumat negara seharusnya dikesan dan dilupuskan oleh pihak MI tanpa banyak soal. Tidak ada soal keadilan dan pembelaan kepada yang membahayakan keselamatan negara.

Diakhbar yang sama beberapa lagi pegawai Pejabat Tanah dihadapkan ke mahkamah kerana menerima sogokan. Ini lebih parah kerana kita menjual maruah kita sebagai seorang Islam dengan sedikit keuntungan.

Adalah sesuatu yang sukar untuk kita nafikan bahawa 90% orang -orang yang menerima sogokan adalah orang Melayu Islam, sedangkan agama Islam melarangkan kita menerima atau memberi sogokan. Tentu ada yang bermulut gatal akan segera menuduh UMNO punya kerja, tetapi dari pengalaman aku lebih 50% pegawai kerajaan adalah penyokong pembangkang. Jadi aku andaikan sebahagian mereka juga adlah penyokong pembangkang. Jadi ini bukan soal poltik atau apa, ini adalah soal pokok dimana masyarakat tanpa kira umur dan jantina sudah menganggap menerima rasuah sebagai sesuatu yang tidak pelik. Sebagai sesuatu yang biasa-biasa.

Jika hal-hal ini tidak dibendung kita menuju kebinasaan.

Salam untuk negara yang semakin runtuh...