Word: aviv
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...firm specializing in international intelligence and security. If it hadn't been for the government's implausible plottings revealed during the Iran-contra hearings, Interfor's findings might be dismissed as a private eye's imagination run amuck -- especially considering the controversial background of the company's president, Juval Aviv...
...American citizen, Aviv claims to have headed the Mossad hit squad that hunted down and killed the Arab terrorists who murdered 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympics in Munich. Israeli and U.S. intelligence sources deny that Aviv was ever associated with Mossad. However, working for Pan Am, he spent more than six months tracking the terrorists who the airline now alleges are responsible for the bombing. While his report has been written off as fiction by many intelligence officials, a number of its findings appear well documented...
According to Aviv, agents in COREA's Wiesbaden headquarters allowed al- Kassar to continue running his smuggling routes to American cities in exchange for help in obtaining the release of the American hostages being held in Lebanon. At about the same time, al-Kassar's drug-smuggling enterprise was being used by the U.S.'s DEA in a sting operation. The DEA was monitoring heroin shipments from Lebanon to Detroit, Los Angeles and Houston, which have large Arab populations, in an attempt to nail the U.S. dealers...
...soul of the individual believer, their devotees hear in that call a traditional summons for a holy war against non-Muslims, especially the Jews of Israel. "The killings near Galed didn't come out of a vacuum," says Elie Rekhess, an expert on Israeli Arabs at Tel Aviv University...
...mostly Muslim Central Asian republics once ruled from Moscow. Worldwide, "Iran's attempts to export the Islamic revolution have largely replaced the former Soviet Union's communist revolutionary zeal" as a source of aid and comfort for terrorists, says Anat Kurz, an expert on terrorism at the Tel Aviv University in Israel...