Ron,
Don't get me wrong: I'm not trying to charge the masterminding of the East Africa bombings up to the Mossad. All I want to stress is that for the French to venture outside their usual West African backyard and into Anglo-Saxon East Africa, they need the Israeli consent.
Going back to my previous article, I think the $1,000,000 clue is the word infiltrate! As I told you earlier, I knew that Israel's invaluable know-how in dealing with Arab matters combined with the Mossad's tight covering of East Africa was critical for B. Denard to succeed in any covert operation in the region. Moreover, the protagonists's motives are crystal-clear:
--for France, the strategic stake was to impede the US progress in Central Africa, especially after Clinton's sea-change tour in the region. A double blow-up involving US embassies would surely chill the rashest US investors with regard to Central Africa.
--for Israel, besides her debt of gratitude to France for the Carlos snatch, the long-term interest lay in the aftermath: the US's wrath would almost surely be directed at the usual suspects --Iran, Libya, Afghanistan, Sudan, and suchlike. For that matter, Iranian leader Khatami was patiently trying to take up with the West again (he even visited the Pope). But now, with Iran lumped together with allegedly thug-states such as Sudan, Libya, etc., Iran's rapprochement is sorta frozen.... Not to speak of Sudan who indeed was taken for a ride: Kartum gave proof of her anti-terrorist predisposition --she handed over Carlos the Jackal to France-- and how did she get thanked? With two US embassies blown up in her neighboring countries and her upgrade to the top of the US's shit-list!
Besides, I don't think that B. Denard has an African agenda of his own --he's rather France's shadow henchman. Hence, his decade-long affair with the Comoros: this archipelago has always been strategic to France as her only toehold in East Africa (besides Djibouti). Afterwards, Denard's opportunist conversion to Islam, together with Tavernier's Israeli contacts allow them to infiltrate (fundamentalist) Islamic networks, providing their bombing plot with a ready-made Islamic front.
The Sudan connection is even more thought-provoking as it conceals a discordance: according to the NCN scrap, Tavernier, along with the French military, were supposed to help the Christian rebellion in Southern Sudan against the Muslim government in the North, that is the very same government who handed over Carlos to France?!
So, the official story about the Carlos snatch doesn't hold water...
Regards,
Gustave. |
