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Responsibilities for landing a commando unit on the Tunisian coast and carrying out the assassination were carefully divided between MOSSAD and the Israeli Defense Forces. By late March the operation was ready, but word that the time was right did not come from Tunis until early April. The Israeli navy provided transport across the Mediterranean in a large vessel, then carried the team of 20 commandos ashore in rubber dinghies some 20 miles north of Sidi Bou Said. The commandos loaded into a Peugeot 305 and two Volkswagen vans and were delivered by MOSSAD agents to al-Wazir's doorstep...
...turmoil spread beyond Israel's borders. Israel's foreign-intelligence service, MOSSAD, was widely suspected of involvement in two bombing incidents in the Cypriot port of Limassol last week. In one, three senior officers of Fatah, the main faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization, were killed by explosives hidden under the seat of their car and detonated by remote control. Although the P.L.O. denies it, the three were apparently in Limassol to arrange the purchase of the Sol Phryne, a rundown ferryboat that the P.L.O. intended to use for a voyage dramatizing the plight of 130 Palestinians deported by Israel...
...captured Arab bus hijackers. In October a technician at Israel's top-secret nuclear complex at Dimona, Mordechai Vanunu, revealed the purported details of the country's nuclear weapons program, never officially acknowledged, in London's Sunday Times. He was later reportedly lured to Rome by a female MOSSAD agent and kidnaped. The caper put a strain on Israel's relations with Britain and Italy...
...certainly cooperated in -- the sale of U.S. weapons to the militant Islamic regime in Tehran. The renewed furor over the Pollard affair thus not only dragged Israel's most shocking security misfire back into the spotlight but dredged up the whole sorry security mess. The Pollard case, says founding MOSSAD Chief Isser Harel, ranks as "the worst-bungled affair in Israel's history...
...political scrutiny. Pollard, for example, was "run," at least ostensibly, by a little-known scientific liaison office, called Lakam, in the Defense Ministry. In an interview with the Jerusalem Post, Harel called the unit, since disbanded, a "bastard in the intelligence community." Harel also contended that in the past, MOSSAD avoided using Jews of other nationalities as spies, for fear of compromising their communities abroad. "Should we create a situation in which people in the U.S. consider Jews a security risk?" he asks...