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JERUSALEM: Revelations of a bungled bugging operation in Switzerland appear to have been calculated to ensure the resignation of Danny Yatom, head of Israel?s Mossad intelligence agency, says TIME Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer...
...Yatom, who resigned on Tuesday, had been held responsible for a failed assassination attempt on a Hamas leader in Jordan, a debacle for which Israel paid a heavy political price. But his decision to quit may have been helped by revelations in the Israeli media that Mossad had plunged Israel into yet another diplomatic crisis after a bugging operation in Switzerland. Today, the Swiss government announced the arrest of a Mossad agent caught last week trying to bug foreign nationals on Swiss soil...
...itself, the Swiss mishap is not a major scandal, says Beyer. But the story was leaked to ensure Yatom?s resignation: ?You expect the Mossad to bug people, and you assume that from time to time they?ll get caught. But with Yatom clinging to his position following the disaster in Jordan, this story proved to be the last straw.? Expect Israeli spooks to be read the riot act by his successor...
Fresh from its botched keystone-kops hit on a Hamas leader in Jordan, the Mossad, Israel's vaunted spy agency, finds itself again looking inept. It turns out that a veteran agent of the organization has long been fabricating intelligence reports that have led the Mossad to take a hawkish view of Syria's military intentions and capabilities. The agent, who is under investigation, claimed he based his reports on the information of a key source, a non-Arab closely tied to the inner circle in Damascus. Israeli officials now say the agent, briefly a right-wing political activist...
Prime Minister BENJAMIN NETANYAHU is under heavy criticism in Israel for sending Mossad agents on a failed attempt to kill a Hamas leader, KHALED MESHAL, on a commercial street in the Jordanian capital of Amman, prompting KING HUSSEIN to threaten to sever relations. Answering the charges of recklessness, an Israeli official says that precisely to avoid embarrassing the King, Mossad chose to spray a toxin into Meshal's ear. Says the source: "The decision to act was taken based on the 100% success rate of this method, which left no fingerprints whatsoever. If they had done it in the right...