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...with breathing problems that necessitated a respirator. When local doctors could not determine the cause of his trauma, Jordanian officials began to suspect what was in fact the truth: the two men weren't tourists at all, nor were they Canadians; they were agents of Israel's spy agency Mossad, dispatched to Amman to assassinate Meshal by contaminating him with a chemical agent, apparently in retaliation for suicide bombings in Jerusalem in July and September that had taken the lives of 21 Israelis...
...Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu too the episode was a multiple fiasco. The Mossad operation failed. It jeopardized relations with Jordan. It strained ties with the U.S. Late last week Canada recalled its ambassador to Israel to protest the use of faked passports. And once again Netanyahu had fallen short of his pledge to provide Israelis with an answer to Hamas terrorism...
...groundwork for Yassin's release had begun the previous Friday, the day after the Mossad attack in Amman. According to an official privy to the proceedings, Hussein on Friday compelled the Israelis to acknowledge that the two Canadian passport holders were in fact Mossad agents. Asked whether Hussein threatened to cut off relations with Israel, with which he had made peace in 1994, a palace source replied, "It went beyond that...
Despite the crisis with Jordan and Mossad's subsequent embarrassment, Netanyahu, says an official who dealt with him, was "the epitome of sangfroid" throughout the imbroglio. If the Prime Minister was unperturbed, it was because of his strong determination, which he has demonstrated from the beginning, to go his own way. That, however, is an increasingly lonely path...
...Arafat?s dilemma is compounded by growing dissatisfaction within his own Fatah movement ? two of the recent Jerusalem suicide bombers were former Fatah members who had joined Hamas. So while Netanyahu can survive the debacle by firing the head of Mossad, the Palestinian leader faces a struggle to stop his support hemorrhaging...