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DIED. ISSER HAREL, 91, legendary Israeli spy and one of the founders of Mossad, the Israeli intelligence organization, which he ran from 1952 to '63; in Petah Tiqwah, Israel. During Mossad's early years, he directed the 1960 capture of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann, who had for years been living under an assumed name in Argentina and was later tried and executed in Israel. Harel recalled dragging Eichmann back to Israel and walking into Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion's office with the message "I brought you a present...
DIED. ISSER HAREL, 91, Israeli spymaster who headed Mossad, the country's intelligence agency during the 1950s and early 1960s, and who masterminded the capture of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in 1960; in Petah Tikva, Israel. In the 1975 book The House on Garibaldi Street, which was made into a TV movie, Harel wrote about how he snared Eichmann. Much feared by his enemies, Harel unmasked Israel Beer, a Soviet mole who had penetrated Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion's inner circle, and once made a man confess by simply saying: "I know you're a Russian...
...later, forensic analysts and intelligence agents from Israel's Mossad and personnel from the big U.S. FBI and CIA offices in Nairobi were picking through the tree stumps and smoldering ruins for clues. Little red flags marked the remains of the car suspension, and other tags stood by pieces of human flesh that might have been the bombers'. Hotel workers and David Kalonzi, who sold souvenirs opposite the hotel entrance, talked of the men they saw in the Pajero: brown-skinned, thirtyish, Arab-looking. Kenyan police quickly detained 12 people of assorted nationalities for questioning, including an American woman...
...Palestinians are simply a subset of a world-terrorism conspiracy. On the same day as the Mombasa attacks, when Sharon's Likud Party was holding a primary, six Israelis were gunned down in the town of Beit Shean. "Terror is indivisible," said the Israeli Foreign Ministry on Thursday. With Mossad on the job, Israel warned the terrorists, "our arm is long...
People in Saudi Arabia are sick of talking about Sept. 11. They have little interest in examining why 15 of their countrymen hijacked U.S. commercial planes and killed 3,000 civilians; many prefer to believe that the attacks were the work of the CIA or the Mossad, and that the 15 hijackers were unwitting players in someone else's plot. "They were just bodies," a senior government official says. Spend an evening in Jidda, the hometown of Osama bin Laden, where young Saudis today flock to American chain restaurants and shopping malls to loiter away the stifling summer nights...