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Is this a unilateral decision? No U.S. permission or agreement needed? It *has* to be against the law. When will this more and more blatant and aggressive Israeli/Jewish takeover of the United States go too far for people to ignore? How can they just come in here and touch our citizens? Sharon is a rabid animal. Why hasn't he been destroyed? MOB At 04:24 PM 1/15/03 -0600, Orest Slepokura wrote: >http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20030115-035849-6156r > >Israel to kill in U.S., allied nations > >By Richard Sale, UPI Intelligence Correspondent >Washington Politics & Policy Desk >Published 1/15/2003 4:50 PM > >Israel is embarking upon a more aggressive approach to the war on terror >that will include staging targeted killings in the United States and other >friendly countries, former Israeli intelligence officials told United >Press International. > >Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has forbidden the practice until now, >these sources said, speaking on condition of anonymity. > >The Israeli statements were confirmed by more than a half dozen U.S. >foreign policy and intelligence officials in interviews with UPI. > >With the appointment of Meir Dagan, the new director Israel's Mossad >secret intelligence service, Sharon is also preparing "a huge budget" >increase for the spy agency as part of "a tougher stance in fighting >global jihad (or holy war)," one Israeli official said. > >Since Sharon became Israeli prime minister, Tel Aviv has mainly limited >its practice of targeted killings to the West Bank and Gaza because "no >one wanted such operations on their territory," a former Israeli >intelligence official said. > >Another former Israeli government official said that under Sharon, >"diplomatic constraints have prevented the Mossad from carrying out >'preventive operations' (targeted killings) on the soil of friendly >countries until now." > >He said Sharon is "reversing that policy, even if it risks complications >to Israel's bilateral relations." > >A former Israeli military intelligence source agreed: "What Sharon wants >is a much more extensive and tough approach to global terrorism, and this >includes greater operational maneuverability." > >Does this mean assassinations on the soil of allies? > >"It does," he said. > >"Mossad is definitely being beefed up," a U.S. government official said of >the Israeli agency's budget increase. He declined to comment on the Tel >Aviv's geographic expansion of targeted killings. > >An FBI spokesman also declined to comment, saying: "This is a policy >matter. We only enforce federal laws." > >A congressional staff member with deep knowledge of intelligence matters >said, "I don't know on what basis we would be able to protest Israel's >actions." He referred to the recent killing of Qaed Salim Sinan al >Harethi, a top al Qaida leader, in Yemen by a remotely controlled CIA drone. > >"That was done on the soil of a friendly ally," the staffer said. > >But the complications posed by Israel's new policy are real. > >"Israel does not have a good record at doing this sort of thing," said >former CIA counter-terrorism official Larry Johnson. > >He cited the 1997 fiasco where two Mossad agents were captured after they >tried to assassinate Khaled Mashaal, a Hamas political leader, by >injecting him with poison. > >According to Johnson, the attempt, made in Amman, Jordan, caused a >political crisis in Israeli-Jordan relations. In addition, because the >Israeli agents carried Canadian passports, Canada withdrew its ambassador >in protest, he said. Jordan is one of two Arab nations to recognize >Israel. The other is Egypt. > >At the time, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said, "I have no >intention of stopping the activities of this government against terror," >according to a CNN report. > >Former CIA officials say Israel was forced to free jailed Hamas founder >Sheikh Ahmad Yassin and 70 other Jordanian and Palestinian prisoner being >held in Israeli jails to secure the release of the two would-be Mossad >assassins. > >Phil Stoddard, former director of the Middle East Institute, cited a >botched plot to kill Ali Hassan Salemeh, the mastermind of the 1972 Munich >Olympics massacre. The 1974 attempt severely embarrassed Mossad when the >Israeli hit team mistakenly assassinated a Moroccan waiter in Lillehammer, >Norway. > >Salemeh, later a CIA asset, was killed in Beirut, Lebanon, in 1976 by a >car bomb placed by an Israeli assassination team, former U.S. intelligence >officials said. > >"Israel knew Salemeh was providing us with preventive intelligence on the >Palestinians and his being killed pissed off a lot of people," said a >former senior CIA official. > >But some Israeli operations have been successful. > >Gerald Bull, an Ontario-born U.S. citizen and designer of the Iraqi >supergun -- a massive artillery system capable of launching satellites >into orbit, and of delivering nuclear chemical or biological payloads from >Baghdad to Israel -- was killed in Belgium in March 1990. The killing is >still unsolved, but former CIA officials said a Mossad hit team is the >most likely suspect. > >Bull worked on the supergun design -- codenamed Project Babylon -- for 10 >years, and helped the Iraqis develop many smaller artillery systems. He >was found with five bullets in his head outside his Brussels apartment. > >Israeli hit teams, which consist of units or squadrons of the Kidon, a >sub-unit for Mossad's highly secret Metsada department, would stage the >operations, former Israeli intelligence sources said. Kidon is a Hebrew >word meaning "bayonet," one former Israeli intelligence source said. > >This Israeli government source explained that in the past Israel has not >staged targeted killings in friendly countries because "no one wanted such >operations on their territory." > >This has become irrelevant, he said. > >Dagan, the new hard-driving director of Mossad, will implement the new >changes, former Israeli government officials said. > >Dagan, nicknamed "the gun," was Sharon's adviser on counter-terrorism >during the government of Netanyahu in 1996, former Israeli government >officials say. A former military man, Dagan has also undertaken extremely >sensitive diplomatic missions for several of Israel's prime ministers, >former Israeli government sources said. > >Former Israel Defense Forces Lt. Col. Gal Luft, who served under Dagan, >described him as an "extremely creative individual -- creative to the >point of recklessness." > >A former CIA official who knows Dagan said the new Mossad director knows >"his foreign affairs inside and out," and has a "real killer instinct." > >Dagan is also "an intelligence natural" who has "a superb analyst not >afraid to act on gut instinct," the former CIA official said. > >Dagan has already removed Mossad officials whom he regards as "being too >conservative or too cautious" and is building up "a constituency of senior >people of the same mentality," one former long-time Israeli operative said. > >Dagan is also urging that Mossad operatives rely less on secret sources >and rely more on open information that is so plentifully provided on the >Internet and newspapers. > >"It's a cultural thing," one former Israeli intelligence operative >explained. "Mossad in the past has put its emphasis on Humint (human >intelligence) and secret operations and has neglected the whole field of >open media, which has become extremely important." > >Regarding Mossad's new policy and budget increase, Kim Farber an Israeli >Embassy official said, "There is so little information available on this, >there is nothing I can add." > > --T6gwWV6RYWtpGwBbwIQLQKcbnfZreAF1jgHKS99 Content-Type: text/html; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit This article should be sent to news media people and legislators, as well
as web forums.  Is this a unilateral decision?  No U.S. permission or
agreement needed?  It *has* to be against the law.

When will this more and more blatant and aggressive Israeli/Jewish takeover
of the United States go too far for people to ignore?  How can they just
come in here and touch our citizens?

Sharon is a rabid animal.  Why hasn't he been destroyed?

MOB

At 04:24 PM 1/15/03 -0600, Orest Slepokura wrote:

>http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20030115-035849-6156r
>
>Israel to kill in U.S., allied nations
>
>By Richard Sale, UPI Intelligence Correspondent
>Washington Politics & Policy Desk
>Published 1/15/2003 4:50 PM
>
>Israel is embarking upon a more aggressive approach to the war on terror
>that will include staging targeted killings in the United States and other
>friendly countries, former Israeli intelligence officials told United
>Press International.
>
>Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has forbidden the practice until now,
>these sources said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
>
>The Israeli statements were confirmed by more than a half dozen U.S.
>foreign policy and intelligence officials in interviews with UPI.
>
>With the appointment of Meir Dagan, the new director Israel's Mossad
>secret intelligence service, Sharon is also preparing "a huge budget"
>increase for the spy agency as part of "a tougher stance in fighting
>global jihad (or holy war)," one Israeli official said.
>
>Since Sharon became Israeli prime minister, Tel Aviv has mainly limited
>its practice of targeted killings to the West Bank and Gaza because "no
>one wanted such operations on their territory," a former Israeli
>intelligence official said.
>
>Another former Israeli government official said that under Sharon,
>"diplomatic constraints have prevented the Mossad from carrying out
>'preventive operations' (targeted killings) on the soil of friendly
>countries until now."
>
>He said Sharon is "reversing that policy, even if it risks complications
>to Israel's bilateral relations."
>
>A former Israeli military intelligence source agreed: "What Sharon wants
>is a much more extensive and tough approach to global terrorism, and this
>includes greater operational maneuverability."
>
>Does this mean assassinations on the soil of allies?
>
>"It does," he said.
>
>"Mossad is definitely being beefed up," a U.S. government official said of
>the Israeli agency's budget increase. He declined to comment on the Tel
>Aviv's geographic expansion of targeted killings.
>
>An FBI spokesman also declined to comment, saying: "This is a policy
>matter. We only enforce federal laws."
>
>A congressional staff member with deep knowledge of intelligence matters
>said, "I don't know on what basis we would be able to protest Israel's
>actions." He referred to the recent killing of Qaed Salim Sinan al
>Harethi, a top al Qaida leader, in Yemen by a remotely controlled CIA drone.
>
>"That was done on the soil of a friendly ally," the staffer said.
>
>But the complications posed by Israel's new policy are real.
>
>"Israel does not have a good record at doing this sort of thing," said
>former CIA counter-terrorism official Larry Johnson.
>
>He cited the 1997 fiasco where two Mossad agents were captured after they
>tried to assassinate Khaled Mashaal, a Hamas political leader, by
>injecting him with poison.
>
>According to Johnson, the attempt, made in Amman, Jordan, caused a
>political crisis in Israeli-Jordan relations. In addition, because the
>Israeli agents carried Canadian passports, Canada withdrew its ambassador
>in protest, he said. Jordan is one of two Arab nations to recognize
>Israel. The other is Egypt.
>
>At the time, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said, "I have no
>intention of stopping the activities of this government against terror,"
>according to a CNN report.
>
>Former CIA officials say Israel was forced to free jailed Hamas founder
>Sheikh Ahmad Yassin and 70 other Jordanian and Palestinian prisoner being
>held in Israeli jails to secure the release of the two would-be Mossad
>assassins.
>
>Phil Stoddard, former director of the Middle East Institute, cited a
>botched plot to kill Ali Hassan Salemeh, the mastermind of the 1972 Munich
>Olympics massacre. The 1974 attempt severely embarrassed Mossad when the
>Israeli hit team mistakenly assassinated a Moroccan waiter in Lillehammer,
>Norway.
>
>Salemeh, later a CIA asset, was killed in Beirut, Lebanon, in 1976 by a
>car bomb placed by an Israeli assassination team, former U.S. intelligence
>officials said.
>
>"Israel knew Salemeh was providing us with preventive intelligence on the
>Palestinians and his being killed pissed off a lot of people," said a
>former senior CIA official.
>
>But some Israeli operations have been successful.
>
>Gerald Bull, an Ontario-born U.S. citizen and designer of the Iraqi
>supergun -- a massive artillery system capable of launching satellites
>into orbit, and of delivering nuclear chemical or biological payloads from
>Baghdad to Israel -- was killed in Belgium in March 1990. The killing is
>still unsolved, but former CIA officials said a Mossad hit team is the
>most likely suspect.
>
>Bull worked on the supergun design -- codenamed Project Babylon -- for 10
>years, and helped the Iraqis develop many smaller artillery systems. He
>was found with five bullets in his head outside his Brussels apartment.
>
>Israeli hit teams, which consist of units or squadrons of the Kidon, a
>sub-unit for Mossad's highly secret Metsada department, would stage the
>operations, former Israeli intelligence sources said. Kidon is a Hebrew
>word meaning "bayonet," one former Israeli intelligence source said.
>
>This Israeli government source explained that in the past Israel has not
>staged targeted killings in friendly countries because "no one wanted such
>operations on their territory."
>
>This has become irrelevant, he said.
>
>Dagan, the new hard-driving director of Mossad, will implement the new
>changes, former Israeli government officials said.
>
>Dagan, nicknamed "the gun," was Sharon's adviser on counter-terrorism
>during the government of Netanyahu in 1996, former Israeli government
>officials say. A former military man, Dagan has also undertaken extremely
>sensitive diplomatic missions for several of Israel's prime ministers,
>former Israeli government sources said.
>
>Former Israel Defense Forces Lt. Col. Gal Luft, who served under Dagan,
>described him as an "extremely creative individual -- creative to the
>point of recklessness."
>
>A former CIA official who knows Dagan said the new Mossad director knows
>"his foreign affairs inside and out," and has a "real killer instinct."
>
>Dagan is also "an intelligence natural" who has "a superb analyst not
>afraid to act on gut instinct," the former CIA official said.
>
>Dagan has already removed Mossad officials whom he regards as "being too
>conservative or too cautious" and is building up "a constituency of senior
>people of the same mentality," one former long-time Israeli operative said.
>
>Dagan is also urging that Mossad operatives rely less on secret sources
>and rely more on open information that is so plentifully provided on the
>Internet and newspapers.
>
>"It's a cultural thing," one former Israeli intelligence operative
>explained. "Mossad in the past has put its emphasis on Humint (human
>intelligence) and secret operations and has neglected the whole field of
>open media, which has become extremely important."
>
>Regarding Mossad's new policy and budget increase, Kim Farber an Israeli
>Embassy official said, "There is so little information available on this,
>there is nothing I can add." <end>
>
>
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