Abu Nidal began his long and bloody career in the PLO, only
to become a bitter rival of Yasser Arafat. It was a situation that the
Israeli Mossad, in a manner similar to their CIA cousins, would seek to
exploit.
Israeli
penetration of Palestinian organizations was common, but it was clearly not
the whole story. Most intelligence sources I consulted agreed that it was
standard practice to use penetration agents not simply to neutralize or
destroy the enemy but to try to manipulate him so that he did one's bidding
without always being aware of doing
Whatever jobs [Abu Nidal] might have done for Arab sponsors,
and they had been numerous and nasty, he had done many other jobs from which
Israel alone appeared to benefit."(1312)
Confirming Seale's theory are top Middle East terrorism experts, including
intelligence officers in Arab countries, and even within Abu Nidal's own
organization.
One French terrorism expert stated: "If Abu Nidal himself is not an Israeli
agent, then two or three of his senior people most certainly are. Nothing
else can explain some of his operations."
A former senior Jordanian intelligence officer said: "Scratch around inside
Abu Nidal's organization and you will find Mossad."
Backing up these reports was a former member of Abu Nidal's own Justice
Committee, who told Seale that Mossad agents captured by Abu Nidal were
usually killed very quickly to prevent them from confessing their true
motives. Abu Iyad, former chief of PLO Intelligence, added,
"Every Palestinian who works in intelligence is convinced
that Israel has a big hand in Abu Nidal's affairs."(1313)
Nidal's
organization has been responsible for some of the most brutal acts of
terrorism in the world. According to the State Department, Abu Nidal has
carried out more than 100 acts or terrorism that have resulted in the deaths
of over 280 people. Some of these attacks include the 1986 grenade and
machine-gun assaults on El Al counters at the Rome and Vienna airports,
attacks on synagogues, and assassinations of Palestinian moderates.
He (Iyad) had told me that Abu Nidal's murdering Palestinian moderates was
connected with [former Israeli Prime Minister] Begin's determination never
to negotiate with Palestinians for fear of losing the West Bank. For Begin
(who had once called the Palestinians "two-legged animals" worthy of
extinction), the moderates, who wanted to negotiate, were the real danger
and had to be eliminated. If the Israelis had in fact infiltrated Abu
Nidal's organization, perhaps some spymaster in Jerusalem had said, 'We've
got someone who can do the job for us.'
Abu Nidal's most well-known attack was on a Greek cruise ship in 1988 that
left nine people dead and 80 wounded. As Seale points out regarding the
attack on the vessel City of Poros, "no conceivable Palestinian or Arab
interest was served by such random savagery."
In fact, Greece was the European country most sympathetic to the Palestinian
cause, its prime minister, Andreas Papandreou, often defending Arabs against
Israel's charges of terrorism. After the attack, Greece was furious with the
Palestinians, who had damaged the Greek tourist trade and hastened the fall
of the Papandreou regime.
The motive, as in the Achille Lauro attack, was apparently to cast the
Palestinians as heartless murderers.
Several sources that Seale consulted were convinced the attack was a typical
Mossad operation.(1314)
What is curious is that Israel has never punished Abu Nidal's organization.
Israel has a long-standing policy of launching immediate and massive
retaliation against any terrorist attack. While Israeli forces have bombed,
shelled and raided Palestinian and Shi'ite positions in Lebanon, and have
sent hit teams to kill Palestinian guerrilla leaders in other countries,
they have never attacked Abu Nidal. Given Israel's harsh and unrelenting
policy of retribution against terrorist attacks, this seems more than a bit
bizarre. As Seale concludes: Abu Nidal is a professional killer who has sold
his deadly services certainly to the Arabs and perhaps to the Israelis as
well. His genius has been to understand that states will commit any crime in
the name of national interest. A criminal like Abu Nidal can flourish doing
their dirty work.(1315) Former DEA agent
A curious feature of Abu Nidal's terrorism is that more than 50 percent of
it has been directed against Arab and Palestinian rivals. The ANO's vicious
war against the PLO has led to Arab claims that it was secretly manipulated
by Israel's Mossad secret service. According to this seemingly far-fetched
hypothesis, the Mossad penetrated Abu Nidal's organization and has
manipulated Abu Nidal to carry out atrocities that would discredit the
Palestinian cause.
The hypothesis is based on four main points:
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Abu Nidal killings have damaged the Palestinian cause to
Israel's advantage
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the suspicious behavior of some of Abu Nidal's officials
the lack of attacks on Israel
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lack of involvement in the Intifada, and
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Israel's failure to retaliate against Abu Nidal's groups.
Another distinctive feature of Abu Nidal's terrorism is that
the ANO has generally not concerned itself with captured ANO members,
preferring to abandon them to their fate rather than to attempt to bargain
for their release. These traits would seem to suggest that the ANO has been
more a product of its leader's paranoid psychopathology than his ideology
Was the Achille Lauro another Zionist 'Black Op'
SUMMARY: --- The Mossad in a attempt to sway world opinion in
favor of Zionist Jews or provoke a armed reaction constantly stages events
and blames Arabs. In this episode the Zionists use Mossad operative Arabs to
hijack a cruise ship.
The crowning scene - played over and over - is where the Mossad Arabs throw
a 75 yr old Jewish man, Leon Klinghoffer, over the side in his wheelchair.
Jewish version ........ Achille Lauro Hijacking Oct 7, 1985
Four heavily armed Palestinian terrorists in October hijack the Italian
cruise ship Achille Lauro, carrying more than 400 passengers and crew, off
Egypt. The hijackers demand that Israel free 50 Palestinian prisoners. The
terrorists killed a disabled American tourist, 69-year-old Leon Klinghoffer,
and threw his body overboard with his wheelchair.
After a two-day drama, the hijackers surrendered in exchange for a pledge of
safe passage. But when an Egyptian jet tries to fly the hijackers to
freedom, U.S. Navy F-14 fighters intercept it and force it to land in
Sicily. The terrorists are taken into custody by Italian authorities.
Counter- terrorist units from the U.S responded, including elements of Delta
Force and SEAL Team Six, however the situation was resolved before an
assault became necessary. The terrorist group who hijacked the Achille Lauro
was the Palestine Liberation Front.
What Really Happened
The hi-jacking of the Italian cruise ship the Achille Lauro by "Palestinian
terrorists" was later reliably reported by former IDF arms dealer Ari Ben-Menashe
in his 1992 book, Profits of War: Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms
Network, to have been ordered and funded by Mossad.
Ben-Menashe
revealed that Israeli intelligence organizations regularly engaged in "black
operations," espionage activity designed to portray Palestinians and others
in the worst possible light. "An example," wrote Ben-Menashe, "is the case
of the 'Palestinian' attack on the cruise ship Achille Lauro in 1985. That
was, in fact, an Israeli 'black' propaganda operation to show what a deadly,
cutthroat bunch the Palestinians were. " According to Ben-Menashe, Israeli
spymasters arranged the attack through "Abu'l Abbas, who, to follow such
orders was receiving millions from Israeli intelligence officers posing as
Sicilian dons. Abbas . . . gathered a team to attack the cruise ship. The
team was told to make it bad, to show the world what lay in store for other
unsuspecting citizens if Palestinian demands were not met.
As the world knows, the group picked on an elderly American Jewish man in a
wheelchair, killed him, and threw his body overboard. They made their point.
But for Israel, it was the best kind of anti-Palestinian propaganda." It
should be noted that in April 1996, Abbas returned to Gaza and in a show of
support for Yasser Arafat apologized for the hi-jacking and the killing of
the American Jewish passenger Leon Klinghoffer without mentioning him by
name, saying, "The hi-jacking was a mistake, and there were no orders to
kill civilians." Abbas made no mention of Mossad involvement in the
hi-jacking according to the April 23, 1996 Associated Press report.
Other names his terror teams had
The Abu Nidal Organisation took the name from its founder Sabri al-Banna but
like other terrorist organisations, it also went by a variety of other
names. Here are some of the common ones.
ï,· Arab Revolutionary Brigades (ARB)
ï,· Arab Revolutionary Council
ï,· Black June Organisation (BJO)
ï,· Black September Organisation (BSO)
ï,· Fatah al-Qiyadah al-Thawriyyah
ï,· Fatah Revolutionary Council (FRC)
ï,· Revolutionary Organisation of Socialist Muslims (ROSM)
ï,· Fatah the Revolutionary Council (FRC)
Involvements
Date ... Location Action
Sept 1972 .. * Munich Germany Olympics killing of Israelis athletes
Sep 1973..Paris, France Attacked Saudi Arabian Embassy
Oct 1974.Damascus, Syria Assassination attempt on Arafat
Sep 1976.Damascus, Syria Attacked Semiramis Hotel
Oct 1976..Rome, Italy Attacked Syrian Embassy
Oct 1976.Islamabad, Pakistan Attacked Syrian Embassy
Nov 1976.Amman, Jordan Occupied International Hotel
Dec 1976..Syria Assassination attempt on Syrian Minister of Foreign Affairs
Oct 1977..Abu Dhabi Killed UAE Secretary of State, Foreign Affairs
Jan 1978..London, England Assassination of PLO representative
Feb 1978..Cyprus Assassination of the chairman of the Egyptian Press Trade
Union
Jun 1978..Kuwait Assassination of PLO representatives
Mar 1980..Madrid, Spain Assassination of Spanish lawyer thought to be Jewish
leader Max Mazini
Jul 1980...Brussels, Belgium Claimed responsibility for killing the Israeli
Commerce Attaché
May 1981...Vienna, Austria Murdered City Councilman and threatened to kill
Austrian Chancellor
Aug 1981...Vienna, Austria Machine-gunned a synagogue, killing two and
injuring 17
Jun 1982..London, England Attempted assassination of Israeli Ambassador
Jun 1982...Rome, Italy Killed PLO official Husayn Kamal with a car bomb
Aug 1982... *Paris, France Killed six and injured 22 in a grenade and
machinegun attack on a restaurant frequented by French Jews
Aug 1982.Bombay, India Attempted murder of UAE Consul
Aug 1982.Kuwait Shot and wounded UAE diplomat
Sep 1982.Madrid, Spain Assassinated Kuwaiti diplomat
Oct 1982.Rome, Italy Killed a child and injured ten in a grenade and
machinegun attack on a synagogue
Apr 1983..Lisbon, Portugal Murdered PLO official Issam Sartawi at a
conference
October 1983....Rome, Italy Attempted to kill the Jordanian Ambassador to
Italy
Oct 1983..New Delhi, India Severely wounded the Jordanian Ambassador to
India
Nov 1983.Athens, Greece Attacked security guards in front of the Jordanian
Embassy, killing one guard and injuring another
Dec 1983.IzTnir, Turkey Bombing of the French Cultural Centre
Feb 1984.Paris, France Murdered the UAE Ambassador to France
Mar 1984..Athens, Greece Assassinated a British diplomat
Nov 1984..Bombay, India Assassinated British High Commissioner
Dec 1984.Rome, Italy Killed Arafat-supporter Ismail Darwish
Dec 1984.Bucharest, Romania Assassinated Jordanian diplomat
Mar 1985.Beirut, Lebanon Kidnapped and suspected murder of British
journalist
Mar 1985.Rome, Italy Attacked Alia, the Royal Jordanian Airlines office
injuring three
Apr 1985.Athens, Greece Fired a rocket at an Alia airliner damaging fuselage
..
Jul 1985.Madrid, Spain Bombed a British Airways office killing one and
injuring 27
Jul 1985..Madrid, Spain ..Attacked Alia offices injuring two
Jul 1985..Ankara, Turkey Assassinated the first secretary of the Jordanian
Embassy
Sep 1985..Rome, Italy Grenade attack on a cafe wounding 38
Sep 1985... *Malta Hijacked an Egyptian airliner where 60 people were killed
in the rescue attempt
Dec 1985... *Rome and Vienna Attacked both airports with machineguns and
grenades killing 16 and injuring 60
Jul 1986... *City of Poros, Greece Attacked excursion ship
Sep 1986... *Karachi, Pakistan Hijacked Pan Am flight 73 killing 17 and
wounding over 150
Sep 1986..Istanbul, Turkey Attacked Neve Shalom synagogue killing 22
April 1986 -- *Berlin Germany Attack on LaBelle Disco killing 3 US
serviceman
Sep 1987...West Bank, Lebanon Bombing of restaurant wounding 15 people
Nov 1987...Israel Hijacked a yacht off the coast taking eight hostages
Mar 1988..Bombay, India Attacked Alitalia airlines crew aboard a commuter
bus, seriously wounding the captain
May 1988..Nicosia, Cyprus Detonated a car bomb near the Israeli Embassy,
killing three and injuring 17
May 1988.Khartoum, Sudan Gunmen attack hotel and club killing eight (five
British) and injuring 21
Dec 1988. Lockerbie Killed 299 people
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