Mossad of Israel
Israeli Intelligence Aency Mossad: Most Lethal Covert Intelligence Agency In The World
In recent weeks more and more information is being released to the media regarding a successful assassination of a Hamas Commander not in Israel or in the Palestinian territories, but in the small country of Dubai which is part of the United Arab Emirates. A significant number of operatives utilizing false passports from actual European Israeli Immigrants. Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, the target, died of a form of poisoning that was first declared as a death by natural causes, a heart attack in his hotel room.
Hamas was not accepting this verdict and began insisting that the UAE police launch a murder investigation. Dubai Investigators just this past Sunday released that Mahmoud al-Mabhouh was first drugged and then was suffocated with a pillow from his Dubai hotel room. He had just previously arrived in Dubai after flying from Syria. Deputy Police Chief Khamis al Mazeira revealed the results of forensic tests on al Mabhouh’s body, which was found to contain high levels of a muscle relaxant drug called Succinylcholine.
Dubai Police say they are now certain Israel’s spy agency Mossad was behind the killing of Mabhouh on January 20, 2010. Mabhouh was allegedly in Dubai to arrange an arms shipment to Hamas in Gaza. He had previously admitted kidnapping and killing two Israeli soldiers in the 1980s.
What is Mossad?
The Institute for Intelligence and Special Operations, otherwise known as the Mossad, has been appointed by the State of Israel to collect information, analyze intelligence, and perform special covert operations beyond its borders.
“Where no counsel is, the people fall, but in the multitude of counselors there is safety”
Proverbs XI/14
Over the years, the Mossad has expanded into many fields, the most prominent of which are:
The Mossad is one of the most feared groups in the Arab world. Especially if your aim is to do harm to Israel or to Israeli citizens abroad. Known as “The Insitute”, this secrective agency is one of Israel’s main weapons against the terrorism they have experienced over the decades since it’s inception over 60 years ago.
Mossad has often come under criticism for perceived excessive actions against Israel’s enemies. It has been criticized for carrying out assassinations, abductions and torture in past covert operations. The latest incident in Dubai is an example of the agency completing it’s mission but being a little sloppy in underestimating the outcome of possible ongoing investigations. Israel will never acknowledge these attacks on foreign territories, as it keeps Mossad’s activities very secretive. In the modern world of electronic security abroad it is becoming harder for these secretive operatives to carry out their missions without popping up on the radar as is the case in the Dubai operation.
It is a special privilege to serve in the Mossad. People enrolling in the Mossad join generations of anonymous and dedicated combatants and intelligence officers who are loyal and devoted to their people and country. The Mossad’s mainstay is its people. They are the very heart of the Mossad. They are its prime movers. They are from the front operational line. People serving in the Mossad are required to give to Israel of their talents, their dedication and their courage. The Mossad’s people are always aware of their goals; they maintain confidentiality and serve with modesty and loyalty
History and Famous Mossad Operations
The Mossad bagan as a small Jewish organization whose mission in 1938 was to bring Jews to the British mandate of Palestine. The British found themselves in control of what was formerly Palestine that was dissolved after WWI. They utilized intelligence and other tactics to sneak many Jews that were escaping the atrocities of the war against them by Nazi Germany into the Mandate area set aside for Jewish settlers. This was done secretly in order to bypass the British quotas on Jewish immigration into the Jewish settlements that would later become Israel. The Mossad’s modes of operation, its ideology, and politics resulted in the creation of the intelligence agency for the Israeli government once it was established in 1948. The agency consisted of the current members who had worked to establish Israel as a Jewish state in the years leading to the birth of Israel as a nation.
After WWII and the decades that followed the Mossad took on the task of identifying and bringing former Nazis that helped slaughter European Jews during the Holocaust. The most famous of these operations was the case of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann who was in hiding in Argentina and through surveillance, they confirmed that he had been living there under the name of Ricardo Klement. He was captured by a team of Mossad agents on May 11, 1960, and subsequently smuggled to Israel where he was tried and executed. Argentina protested what it considered as the violation of its sovereignty but in the future the Mossad contiued to use similar protocol of these clandestine operations abroad.
In an example of the use of Mossad against regional threats to Israel and to stop a perceived dangerous spread of nuclear weapons and significant conventional weapons to states that would like to do harm to Israel an assassination of a Canadian Engineer and ballistics expert was carried out in Belgium in 1990. Mossad is suspected to be responsible for the assassination of Canadian Gerald Bull outside his Brussels apartment March 22, 1990. He was shot multiple times in the head outside his apartment. Bull was at the time working for Iraq on the Project Babylon supergun which Israel saw as a threat to their nation.
In another incident that involved Iraq’s quest for nuclear weapons, Operation Sphinx, during the late 1970’s and early 1980’s Mossad obtained highly sensitive information about Iraq’s Osirak nuclear reactor by recruiting an Iraqi nuclear scientist in France. On April 5, 1979, the Mossad destroyed 60 percent of the Iraqi reactor components being built in France. An 1981 airstrike in Iraq itself by Israel Airforce would put an end during this period to Iraq’s attempt to obtain nuclear weapons.
Iran 2007 It was alleged by private intelligence agency Stratfor, based on “sources close to Israeli intelligence”, that Dr. Ardeshir Hosseinpour, a scientist involved in the Iranian nuclear program, was killed by the Mossad on January 15, 2007
The biggest use of Mossad has been to signal out and destroy leaders and important leaders of militant groups such as Hamas and Hizbollah that attack the Jewish state whenever possible with suicide bombers, rockets and other forms of terrorism. When the leaders of these militant groups travel abroad Mossad is usually tracking them and at any moment kill them if the opportunity arises.
Malta The assassination of Fathi Shiqaqi. Shiqaqi a leader of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, was shot multiple times in the head in 1995 in front of the Diplomat Hotel in Sliema, Malta.
Within the Palestinian territories itself Mossad is feared as a result of their numerous assassinations of Hamas and other related militant groups.
Mossad has had it’s dissapointments over the years where things did not actually work out for the best for the intelligence agency.
In 1997, two Mossad agents were caught in Jordan, which had signed a peace treaty with Israel, on a mission to assassinate Sheikh Khaled Mashal, a leader of Hamas, by spraying him with poison at a pro-Hamas rally in Amman. The Mossad agents were using fake Canadian passports. This led to a diplomatic crisis with Canada and Jordan. Israel was forced to provide the antidote to the poison and to release around 70 Palestinian prisoners, in particular the Hamas leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, in exchange for the Mossad agents who would have faced sure death.
On July 21, 1973, Ahmed Bouchiki, a Moroccan waiter in Lillehammer, Norway, was killed by Mossad while walking with his pregnant wife. He had been mistaken for Ali Hassan Salameh, one of the leaders of Black September, the Palestinian group responsible for the Munich massacre, who had been given shelter in Norway. Six Mossad agents were arrested, and the incident became known as the Lillehammer affair.
Is Mossad A Terrorist Organization?
I guess the answer to this is to who’s side you are on. If you are a member of Hamas, Hizballah, or another nation attempting to wipe Israel off the map then yes, you probably view them as a terrorist organization. If you are an Israeli or an ally of Israel you probably see Mossad as an intelligence agency similar to that of the CIA and other intelligence communities around the world.
In the end Mossad has used and will continue to use these covert operations to keep Israel from harms way. Will there be mistakes? As long as there is a human component there is a possibility for misidentifications and other mistakes that lead to civilian deaths. Israel has had to stand alone against an entire region that at one time or another has tried to end their existence as a country. No other country in the world has had to face the plight of the Jewish Homeland. Their has been a secret war against them since the birth of their nation and have been unable to rely on justice from the U.N. or other world bodies. The Palestinians have face horrible atrocities but Hamas, Hizballah, the states that have sponsored these militant groups in the past such as Iran, Syria and Iraq have not and will not offer a reasonable solution to the crisis. Mossad is an ugly necessity until Israel is safe and the entire region accepts that the Jewish state is not going away anytime soon. You can bet Mossad will be heard from again in the future.
i want to serve at mossad.