George,
Might it be that our so far courteous give-and-take has turned sour? Or is it just your Buddhist sweetheart who got you in a temporary miff?
Re: Gus, inject some humor in your life, it may help your karma indeed (if you got any that is).
I apologize to the thread for this meaningless dialogue between me and Gus...
As for you, I'd advise you to mitigate your fascist plug with more balanced, ethnic-blind materials.
As regards your apology, you may just apologize for ALL your previous posts on this thread as well --since reading any one of them amounts to reading them all....
Regarding your fancy for Mossad, allow me to bring to your notice the following scrap written by yet another sycophant of Mossad: Gordon Thomas, author of Gideon's Spies - The Secret History of the Mossad, St. Martin's Press # New York, 1999.
The Spy in the Iron Mask
(page 72)
[...]
This surveillance increased after 1968, when one of the engineers building the French Mirage IIIC fighter aircraft was discovered to have stolen over two hundred thousand blueprints. He received a four-and-a-half year prison sentence --having given LAKAM(1) the data to build its own Mirage replicas. Since then LAKAM had enjoyed little other success.
For Rafi Eitan(2), the memory of the Mirage coup was the deciding factor. What had been achieved before could be achieved again. He would take a now virtually moribund LAKAM and turn it into a force to be reckoned with.
Working out of cramped offices in a Tel Aviv backwater, he told his new staff, awed at now being commanded by such a legendary figure, that what he knew about science he could place in a test tube and still leave plenty of space. But, he added, he was a fast learner.
He immersed himself in the world of science, looking for potential areas to target. He left his home before dawn and often returned close to midnight with bundles of technical papers and read into the small hours; there was little time to relax by sculpting scrap metal. In between the huge amounts of data he absorbed, he reestablished contact with his old service. Mossad now had a new director, Nahum Admoni. Like Rafi Eitan, Admoni had a deep-seated suspicion of U.S. intentions in the Middle East. Outwardly, Washington continued to show an open commitment to Israel, and the CIA had kept open the back-channel contact Isser Harel and Allen Dulles had instigated. But Admoni complained that the information from that source was of little importance.
The Mossad chief was also concerned about reports from Mossad's own katsas(3) and well-placed sayanim(4) in Washington. They had discovered discreet meetings between high-ranking State Department officials and Arab leaders close to Yasser Arafat who had discussed ways to pressure Israel to be more accomodating over Palestinian demands. Admoni told Rafi Eitan he now felt he could no longer regard the United States as 'a foul weather friend.'
This attitude was reinforced in an incident that would shock American belief in its inviolability more than anything since the Vietnam War.
In August 1983, Mossad agents discovered an attack was being planned against the U.S. forces in Beirut, there as UN peacekeepers. The agents had identified a Mercedes truck that would contain half a ton of explosive. Under back-channel arrangements, Mossad should have passed on the information to the CIA. But at a meeting at Mossad headquarters overlooking King Saul Boulevard, staff were informed they were to 'make sure our people watch the truck. As far as Yanks go, we are not here to protect them. They can do their own watching. We start doing too much for the Yanks and we'll be shitting on our own doorstep.'
On October 23, 1983, monitored closely by Mossad agents, the truck was driven at full speed into the headquarters of the U.S. Eighth Marine Battalion situated near Beirut Airport. Two hundred forty-one marines died.
The reaction in the upper echelons of Mossad, according to a former officer, Victor Ostrovsky, was, 'They wanted to stick their nose into this Lebanon thing, let them pay the price.' [...]
(1) Bureau of Scientific Liaison, an Israeli intelligence agency gathering scientific data, known by its Hebrew acronym.
(2) Rafael Eitan, a former Mossad exec who was appointed director of LAKAM.
(3) Katsa = Mossad case officer.
(4) Sayan(im) = volunteer Jewish helper(s)
Get the picture, George?? ......They wanted to stick their nose into this Central Africa thing, let them pay the price. Hey, it's almost the same price, btw: a 200+ toll. Hmmm... did I finally come up with the smoking gun??? You say so!
Gus. |
