Word: mossad
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...itself and libel their nation. More likely, they say, an American missile mistakenly blew up the plane or maybe there were lethal laser emissions--and the pilot was roller-coastering to dodge them. Or an insane hijacker masterminded the crash to damage Egypt's reputation. Or it was a Mossad plot to kill the 33 military officers aboard...
Bloodshed at Israel's Berlin consulate has highlighted speculation over whether israel's intelligence service, the Mossad, helped catch Abdullah Ocalan. Even if Israel had no hand in Turkey's capture of the rebel Kurd, his followers are now acting on that speculation. The Berlin drama followed reports on German television -- attributed to unnamed "Western intelligence sources" -- that Israeli intelligence may have played a role in snagging Ocalan...
...Circumstantial evidence also fueled speculation over Mossad's involvement. "Even if the Israelis were not involved, Ocalan's capture certainly carried some of the hallmarks of a Mossad operation," says TIME correspondent William Dowell. "There's been strong security cooperation between Israel and Turkey, and the Mossad certainly has a well-established capacity to undertake such complex missions in faraway countries...
...that would let them listen in on the security forces as they shuttled weaponry, components, technical manuals and chemical and biological materials around Iraq. Scott Ritter, the former U.S. Marine major who was then a leading UNSCOM inspector, traveled to Israel and persuaded that country's intelligence agency, the Mossad, to provide scanners to tap into the radio and cell-phone frequencies used by the Iraqi security units...
...next war can come not from our borders but from here in Jerusalem, from the Temple Mount," says an Israeli security official. Both the Mossad and the Shinbet, the country's external and internal spy agencies, have become involved in monitoring and managing threats posed by the millennium. Says a source familiar with Israeli security issues: "It must be your first assumption that these people are not logical or reasonable. They can do almost anything at any time." For instance, he says, Dec. 31, 1999, is not necessarily D-day. "It could happen in February 2000 or in June...