SPIE & SPIE.Storie true for gourmets.
Mossad, yellow from Dubai to Dublin.
Across Europe and the Middle East
hunt for killer anti-Hamas. I'll tell you three stories.
Two are true and really happened while the third is fruit of the imagination (and not so fancy) a master of spy novels, and a former spy in his time.
The first story is on a fictional story but definitely happened and even told in a book by one of its protagonists. In fact, in the autumn of 1981, the journalist George Jonas meets with the former agent Avner, and convinces him to tell his story in a book entitled
"Revenge." Here's a recap of the facts to understand why the title.
On 5 September 1972, an armed Palestinian Black September broke into the Olympic Village is in Monaco and seize Israeli athletes. The action will culminate in a bloodbath die eleven athletes, seven terrorists and a German policeman. Now the Mossad organized a reprisal: Eleven people linked to Palestinian terrorism and the events in Monaco will have to die. One officer and four other men are charged with the mission. The result will be a long trail of blood.
The second story is as follows.
In 1983, John Le Carré, published a novel entitled
"The Tamburina. The novel is based on the above facts and tells an intriguing story, full of magic realism and espionage.
is also a summary of the history here.
Charlie is an actress, a bit 'frustrated but loving life and his work, which is much appreciated. He does not hide his sympathies for the Palestinian cause and, at a political rally, is fascinated by a mysterious hooded man, illustrating the claims vigorously. Some other areas noted Charlie: it is given to go with a camera crew in a country in the Middle East, for shooting a "short" advertising. But this is just a gimmick: it is the Israeli counterintelligence service that engages and Charlie begins to train with the express purpose of working it among the Palestinians. Thus begins a woman for the hard work of indoctrination, acquisition of data and information and training. It knows Joseph (who is Palestinian by birth, but works for the service), he meets various characters (but not the stranger to the famous meeting), is aware of attacks, blackmail and torture, to be eventually moved to Lebanon, he establishes contact with the other party. And there also is aware of similar struggles and torture of another and extremism. The main objective is to center, for the Israelis, the elusive Khalil, a prestigious leader. Charlie manages to contact him and he becomes the lover in a final by Israeli agents, the villa where the two are, and while Khalil discovers that the woman is an enemy agent, the man is killed.
Today, another true story, a new
"Vendetta". The ruthlessness of intelligence agencies is unknown.
But that is demonstrated by the Mossad truly extraordinary.
skills, abilities, means and motivation to prove this to the Israeli agents. But every time
amaze us with their feats.
not have equal and I've never read the intelligence services of other companies even the most skilled, perform actions on enemy soil, obtaining the expected results.
So, here's what has happened in the middle of the 21st century, very well told by a talented journalist for La Stampa
gladly carry that because I was fascinated as I plus fan of John Le Carre. Francesca Paci
LONDON
E 'January 20, Wednesday. The physiotherapist Stephen Daniel Hodes thirty-seven plays with two children in the apartment Ramat Beit Shemesh, near Jerusalem, where he has lived since 2000, when he left London for aliyah, the return.
The victim, Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, on arrival at a hotel in Dubai
In the same hour another Stephen Daniel Hodes recording with his passport at the Bustan Rotana Hotel in Dubai to kill Hamas commander Mahmoud al -Mabhouh and dissolve into nothingness. Sounds like the beginning of a syncopated spy movie but it's the end of the diplomatic liaison between Israel and Britain, weds partner in the global war on terrorism. While the police accusing the Arab emirate, "99%" the elimination of al-Mabhouh Mossad, the Foreign Office asked for an explanation Ambassador Israeli Ron Prosor: why six of the 11 members of the commando in charge of eliminating the leader of Hamas (which become 18 considering the presumed supporters) were British documents? From Berlin to Paris and other capitals decide similar steps, wondering how they got into the hands of killer passports of their countries.
For the maze of applications need to take some steps back. Mahmoud al-Mabhouh born in 1960 in a refugee camp in Gaza. Mechanic by profession and passion for bodybuilding, he enlisted in the ranks soon Ezzedin al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, and in 1989, after trial by fire in the first Intifada, he participated in the murder of two Israeli soldiers. Since then vanishes. The found in Beirut, where he escaped a poisoning attempt, in Syria, survived a car bomb, the eminence grise in continuous movement between the Arab capitals from which the traffic movement of money and ammunition. They claim the 007 in Tel Aviv that he has been through the long-range Iranian missiles supplied to the Palestinians. The last appearance last month in Dubai to meet with a mysterious smuggler of arms to Tehran. The bait. Six hours after it landed in the emirate, al-Mabhouh lying lifeless in a luxurious room on the second floor of the Bustan Rotana Hotel.
What has happened since then? On the dynamics of Dubai Police has no doubts. Since its arrival, the commander of Hamas in the ribs 16 men and 2 women with mobile simcard with Austrian passports and "not fake" specular identity thieves to their victims with the exception of the signature and photo. Three are Irish, one German, one French, six British and Israeli citizenship. This would be to suggest the responsibility of the Mossad, have already been involved in assassinations abroad in the past under the coverage of foreign documents, even though intelligence experts as Ephraim Kam Rafi Eitan and invite you to read in depth: "The Mossad has no interest to use the names of Israeli citizens. "
The head of Israeli intelligence is likely the place, the Dubai police will want to stop, but the yellow is far dall'epilogo. Also because in the meantime, the brothers of Hamas and Fatah knives, never reconciled by the civil war of 2007, continue to accuse each other of intelligence with the enemy. Who are the three chief accomplices of the Palestinian commando, the only ones in the hands of the police? Investigators are questioning Dubai Shekhaiber Anwar Ahmad and Hasnain, former officials of the entourage of President Abu Mazen reinventatisi businessman in the UAE that between 18 and 19 January have met some of the killers before you slink off to Jordan. "Here is the proof of the involvement of Fatah," he thunders from Gaza Hamas. But what about the Nehru Massoud, the most faithful of a number of Hamas Khaled Meshal in Damascus under pressure because he was suspected of having helped the Israelis to develop the blow? Denies Meshal, but according to the Kuwaiti newspaper Siyasah, citing "a well-informed source" would Massoud man seen in the company of al-Mabhouh, without bodyguards on the morning of January 20.
8.24 that day to return to Mahmoud al-Bustan Rotana Hotel Mabhouh. At the desks around him, the cameras shot a woman with white pants and a striped hat sea. There is also a type in panama. On the second floor are lurking in four, baseball caps, t-shirt, the executive team. The time that the leaders of Hamas comes into the room and are on him, killing him with electric shocks. Then the murderers and take the elevator back on their feet. After twenty minutes to leave the property the last member of the commando, the Irish Gail Folliard, sunglasses and black wig. End of story for now. Le Carre could not imagine anything better.