パレスティナ過激派の暗殺の顛末
あとでじっくり読むためにコピペしました。
英語は早く読めない。↓
パレスチナ過激派テロリストは、すでにテロで何人もイスラエル人を殺しているし、これから何人も殺すことが確実。指導者なら、テロリストをどんどん養成していく。今後も、確実にテロリストは、イスラエル人を殺していく。
イスラエルにとれば、殺人鬼を先に始末したということなのだろう。
テロリストならば、逮捕して裁けばいいのだが、逮捕してくれるような組織があるのでしょうか？
イスラエルを責める人に聞きたいが、パレスチナやイスラエルの問題を解決するために何かしました？
パレスチナ人は、今までさんざんイスラエルでテロを起こしてイスラエル人を殺害したので
壁でしきらえた。そこからはテロが減った。
壁を通ってイスラエルに入って働く人は、テロリストではないから、会社にも行くし買い物もする。病院にも行くし、大学にも行く。パレスチナには、産業は無い。イスラエルから電気も食料も水もタダで送ってもらっている。
そして、毎日、パレスチナ人は、ガザからカッサム砲でイスラエルを砲撃している。
たまに、イスラエルが怒ってガザを攻撃し、カッサム砲を見つけて破壊すると、
世界は、イスラエルを非難する。イスラエルは、ちゃんと国連で国家建設を認められて建国したのです。
そして、最初の移住者は、ちゃんとパレスチナ人からお金を出して土地を買っている。
エルサレムでは、イスラエルの中に、ちゃんとアラブ系の人が住んでいて
自分の住んでいる町がパレスチナになったら、イスラエル側に引っ越ししたいと言っている人が多いそうです。
パレスチナ人は、もともと羊飼いや農民で、国家意識も無かったのです。
国家意識が薄い民族がどうなるか、人のフリみてわがふり直せ。日本人。
チュウゴク人や韓国人に森や水資源や島を売るな。
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モサドが2010年１月にドバイで行ったパレスティナ過激派の暗殺の顛末が、これまた詳細に描かれている。↓
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,739908,00.html
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01/17/2011
An Eye for an Eye
The Anatomy of Mossad's Dubai Operation
In the spring of 1989, a Palestinian terrorist murdered an Israeli soldier.
Twenty years later in Dubai, the Israeli secret service agency Mossad avenged the killing. The operation succeeded, but nevertheless has become a fiasco. SPIEGEL has reconstructed the attack. By SPIEGEL Staff
He knew that he was a dead man. From the moment he shot the Israeli soldier
sitting on the car seat behind him in the face, he knew that they would get
him sooner or later.
For Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, it would take 20 years for that day to come. At about noon on Jan. 20, 2010, employees at the Al Bustan Rotana airport hotel in Dubai opened the door of room 230 to find the body of a man on the bed.
According to the death certificate, the cause of death was "brain hemorrhage."
At the time, no one knew who exactly the dead man was. Mabhouh was considered to be the chief weapons negotiator for Hamas, the Palestinian organization's main contact to Tehran and the logistician behind rocket attacks on Israel coming from the Gaza Strip.
A man with a pedigree like that doesn't die of a brain hemorrhage. In fact,
al-Mabhouh became a marked man long ago.
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MONDAY, JAN. 18, 2010
More than 100,000 passengers arrive at Dubai International Airport every day. The emirate has become a popular vacation spot for those seeking a respite from winter in the northern hemisphere. The temperatures are summery, the hotels first-class and the shopping malls legendary. But the 27 passengers who arrived in the space of several hours on flights from various European cities had not come to Dubai to go shopping or for a winter break. Instead, they had a mission to fulfill.
Twelve of them had British passports, six had Irish passports, four each had
French and Australian passports, and one had a German passport, issued to a
Michael Bodenheimer by a registration office in Cologne.
Most of these 27 people were members of an elite unit of the Mossad, the
Israeli intelligence agency, assigned to the riskiest missions, and to do
work involving sabotage, espionage and assassinations. This elite unit is
called "Caesarea," named after the ancient city in Palestine where a few
leaders of the second Jewish insurrection against Rome were martyred.
The 27 people were waiting for another man, someone they knew was a dead
man.
A few members of the Caesarea team had already been in Dubai earlier, in
February, March and June of 2009, to observe "Plasma Screen," their code
name for Mabhouh. They wanted to be sure that they were targeting the right
man. During their previous visits, they also familiarized themselves with
the door locks used in various hotels.
Key Storylines
In July 1973, a Mossad commando unit had murdered a Moroccan waiter in the
Norwegian city of Lillehammer, acting on the erroneous assumption that he
was a terrorist with the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO). Several
agents were sent to prison, and Israel paid compensation to the man's
surviving dependents. The agency's reputation suffered as a result of the
incident, and Mossad leaders were determined not to allow anything like it
to happen again.
Perhaps the choice of the code name for Mabhouh was likewise a mistake.
After all, images of the "Plasma Screen" operation were soon flickering
across thousands of flat-screen TVs around the world. At first, many
questions remained unanswered and many details unresolved. One year later,
after investigations in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Israel, the United
States and Europe, and after interviews were conducted with several
participants, police officers and intelligence agencies, SPIEGEL is now able
to reconstruct the key storylines that intersected in Dubai between Jan. 18
and 20, 2010.
One of these storylines is the German one. Michael Bodenheimer, who landed
in Dubai at 12:14 a.m. on Jan. 19, had planned his arrival long before. The
story of how he got his passport can be reconstructed with great precision.
It's an important story, because it demonstrates that the Mossad was in fact
behind what happened in the ensuing few hours.
On Sunday, March 29, 2009, two men arrived in Cologne on a Lufthansa flight
from Tel Aviv. The men sought to avoid all contact with each other. They sat
in different rows and waited in different lines at passport control. The
men, according to their papers, were Alexander Varin and Michael
Bodenheimer.
False Names, False Addresses
Varin and Bodenheimer had an appointment with a Cologne attorney the next
morning. Varin, who referred to himself as a "crisis consultant," already
knew the attorney, who had petitioned for German citizenship on behalf
Michael's father, Hans Bodenheimer, allegedly a victim of the Nazi regime.
Under the German constitution, those persecuted by the Nazis, as well as
their children and grandchildren, can petition for repatriation.
The Israelis told the German attorney that Bodenheimer was born on July 14,
1967, in the Israeli village of Liman on the Lebanese border. The
information was apparently false. No one in Liman knows a man named
Bodenheimer. He also told the attorney that his last address prior to his
move to Germany was in the Israeli city of Herzliya, in a four-story
building at Yad Harutzim Street 7. There is an upscale kitchen design store
on the ground floor of the building.
But the address also proved to be false. The name "Michael Budenheimer"
appears among 19 names on a blue panel in the lobby. The name "Top Office"
appears at the top of the panel.
According to its website, Top Office provides "virtual offices," among other
services. "Have your company name displayed on the entrance sign," the site
promises. When a SPIEGEL representative called Top Office, the woman
answering the phone said her name was Iris, but she was unwilling to provide
a surname. When the name Bodenheimer was mentioned, she ended the
conversation. Two days later, the names "Michael Budenheimer" and "Top
Office" had been removed from the panel in the lobby of the office building
in Herzliya.
In Cologne, the German attorney filed the necessary documents in March 2009.
When Bodenheimer and Varin returned three months later and checked into a
Cologne hotel, the next mistake was made: Alexander Varin checked in under a
different name, "Uri Brodsky." But he continued to use his old name,
Alexander Varin, with the attorney. Confusing two different identities was
an inexcusable mistake, and investigators with the German federal criminal
police agency, the BKA, would quickly discover later that it was one and the
same man using both names.
On June 17, 2009, Bodenheimer, in an effort to bolster his German identity,
rented a small apartment at Eigelstein 85, in a rundown neighborhood near
the main train station in Cologne. He told the landlord that he was a coach
for a triathlon team, and he paid his rent in cash.
On June 18, 2009, Bodenheimer picked up his new German passport. He was now
a citizen.
Seven months later, on Jan. 19, 2010, Bodenheimer was standing at the
airport in Dubai. He and his fellow team members had been told a week
earlier that their victim would arrive in Dubai the next day. Although they
didn't know which hotel the man would check into, they did know that he
would not be checking out again.
Everything was in place. All they had to do now was wait for their victim.
Part 2: Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2010, Early Morning
Mabhouh was on his way to the international airport in Damascus. As a VIP,
he had his driver take him to a back entrance of the terminal, and he was
able to wait in the lounge while his luggage was being checked and his
passport stamped. Mabhouh was traveling alone.
The previous spring, he had given and interview to Al-Jazeera, the
Arab-language news network, about the murder of two Israeli soldiers in
1989. The station had disguised Mabhouh's face, but the Mossad had no
trouble identifying his voice.
The Hamas agent described, in great detail, how he and an accomplice had
dressed as Orthodox Jews and how, in the spring of 1989, they had kidnapped,
killed and buried the two soldiers Avi Sasportas and Ilan Saadon. They had
trampled on the bodies and photographed themselves in the process. When
asked whether he regretted the killings, Mabhouh said that he only regretted
not having shot the second Israeli in the face. But unfortunately, he added,
he had been sitting at the wheel of the car.
"Red Page" is the Mossad's code name for an order to kill someone. Each of
these orders is jointly authorized by the Israeli prime minister and defense
minister. "Red Pages" do not have to be executed right away. In fact, they
have no expiration date, and the orders remain valid until they are
expressly cancelled.
As reported in a recent article on the Dubai attack in the US lifestyle
magazine GQ, Mabhouh received his "Red Page" back in 1989. The Israelis
don't take kindly to the kidnapping or murder of one of their soldiers in
uniform.
Mabhouh Planned Murders
Mabhouh was born in the Jabaliya refugee camp in the Gaza Strip in 1960. His
name means "the hoarse one." He joined the Muslim Brotherhood as a young
man, and he was there when the Islamist mob began laying waste to the
Palestinian coffeehouses that maintained gambling operations.
In the late 1980s, the Israeli occupying forces caught him with a
Kalashnikov in his luggage and he was sentenced to a year in prison. He said
that he was tortured in prison.
After his release, Mabhouh joined the military wing of the recently
established Islamist movement Hamas. It was the period of the first
Intifada, when most Palestinians were fighting the Israeli occupiers with
slingshots and Molotov cocktails. Mabhouh planned murders.
In 1988, he was placed in command of Hamas's "Unit 101." The kidnapping and
murder of the two Israeli soldiers in the Negev Desert was enough proof for
Hamas that Mabhouh was the right man for the job.
Mabhouh hid in the Gaza Strip for the first few months after the killings,
and then he fled to Egypt. The government in Cairo initially contemplated
putting him on trial or extraditing him to Israel, but fearing that this
could trigger an uprising by the Muslim Brotherhood, it decided to deport
the Hamas agent to Libya instead.
Escaping Death
Later on, Mabhouh went to Jordan, where he developed a Hamas base from which
he smuggled weapons into the Palestinian West Bank and planned attacks
against Israeli tourists. He was expelled from the country in 1995, just as
the entire Hamas leadership would later be expelled. Mabhouh moved to
Damascus, where he established contact with the Iranian Revolutionary
Guards.
He obtained money and rockets in Iran, and he collected donations in the
Gulf States to fund terrorist attacks during the second Intifada. Until
then, Hamas had waged its war against Israel with unguided short-range
rockets, but under Mabhouh's leadership Hamas was able to fire longer-range
missiles into the Gaza Strip.
In February 2009, Mabhouh narrowly escaped death when an Israeli drone
attacked a convoy he was traveling with in Sudan. The trucks were presumably
loaded with Iranian Fajr rockets.
Hamas and Iran -- hardly anyone embodied Israel's two enemies to the degree
that Mahmoud al-Mabhouh did. It was time to turn the "Red Page."
Mabhouh was constantly traveling between China, Iran, Syria, Sudan and the
UAE. The Mossad agents decided that Dubai was the best place for an
assassination. The city is open to tourists and businesspeople, and gaining
entry with a Western passport is unproblematic.
A first assassination attempt failed in November 2009. A Caesarea commando
unit had tried to kill Mabhouh, possibly with poison that had been smeared
onto light switches and fixtures in his hotel room. The victim fell ill, but
he survived. The agents vowed that the next time they would not leave Dubai
until they could verify Mabhouh's death with their own eyes.
At 1:10 a.m. on Jan. 19, 2010, the last two Caesarea agents, Gail Folliard
and Kevin Daveron, landed in Dubai on a flight from Paris. Together with
Peter Elvinger, who had flown in from Zurich, they formed the operations
unit.
Part 3: Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2010, Late Morning
Unlike other intelligence agencies, the Mossad cannot provide its agents
with real passports corresponding to a false identity. The primary countries
in which it operates have no diplomatic relations with Israel. Even the most
harmless-seeming tourists would be detained upon arrival if they were
traveling on an Israeli passport. Instead, the Mossad usually uses the
passports of Israelis with dual citizenship or forged passports from other
countries.
Peter Elvinger and the members of his team checked into various hotels. All
of their passports, with the exception of the German passport, were forged.
They were operating like avatars, using stolen identities. The real people
whose names were being used would later testify that they had been
completely unaware of the operation.
The first part of the operation had succeeded. The Caesarea commando unit
had put itself into position, safely and unnoticed. Elvinger and his team
members paid their hotel expenses in cash or with prepaid money cards issued
by Payoneer, a US company. This would prove to be a mistake in the "Plasma
Screen" operation.
Because the Payoneer cards used by most of the 27 members of the commando
unit are relatively rare in Dubai, investigators later managed to narrow
down their list of suspects relatively quickly. The CEO of Payoneer, Yuval
Tal, is a former member of an elite unit in the Israeli army.
The Same Contact Numbers
The commando unit made a second mistake when its members used intermediaries
in Austria to communicate with one another. Under the system an agent would
call a number in Vienna to be connected to another agent's mobile phone.
Although this was done to conceal calls, the system had a drawback. As soon
as investigators had obtained the call list of one suspect, they could
easily determine who else was using the same contact numbers in Austria.
Both the use of the prepaid cards and the telephone server in Vienna were
not mistakes that would jeopardize the entire operation. But they would make
it more difficult for the team members to cover their tracks. Furthermore,
the UAE is not one of the so-called "base countries," where Mossad agents in
trouble can take refuge in an Israeli embassy or get help from the
intelligence agencies of Israel's allies.
The Emirates are referred to as a "target country" in intelligence jargon.
If an agent's cover is blown there, he or she could face torture or even the
death penalty. Given the risk, why were the Caesarea team members so
careless?
Underestimating Dubai
They underestimated Dubai, and they underestimated a man whose office is on
the sixth floor of the headquarters of the Dubai Police, about three
kilometers (1.9 miles) from room 230 at the Al Bustan.
Lieutenant General Dahi Khalfan Tamim is not a man who cares much for
diplomacy. He is a gruff cop with a biting sense of humor and possessing the
kind of self-confidence government officials have who enjoy the full support
of their superiors. Tamim has only one superior: the ruler of Dubai, Sheikh
Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum.
At 19, Tamim graduated from the Royal Police Academy in Amman, Jordan, the
most respected police academy in the Arab world. Ten years later, in 1980,
he was appointed police chief of Dubai. Since then, the emirate has boomed
more than almost any other part of the world. Lieutenant General Tamim's job
has been to ensure that Dubai's boom could move forward without significant
crime problems.
Planes take off and land by the minute in front of the plate-glass window in
Tamim's office. Dubai is in a central location, roughly equidistant from
Iran, Iraq, Yemen and Afghanistan. There are more Iranians and Pakistanis
living there than natives of Dubai; the city has attracted hundreds of
thousands of migrants from some of the world's most explosive regions.
People are constantly coming and going, large amounts of money are at stake,
and the Islamic banking system is a nightmare for any police detective.
Tamim knows that Dubai has everything it takes to become the region's crime
hub -- and he has made it his mission to prevent that from happening.
He has purchased the best available hardware and software in the United
States. Government funding for surveillance systems is unlimited in the UAE,
and to make things even easier for the police, no one worries about data
privacy.
Not Even a Proxy War
"We know," he says, "that many Israelis come here with non-Israeli
passports, and we treat them the way we treat anyone else. We protect their
lives just as we protect the lives of others, and we don't concern ourselves
with their religion. But we also don't want Dubai to become a third-party
country where Israelis kill Palestinians."
Tamim sees police work as a craft. Ideologues of all stripes -- Arabs,
Marxists, Islamists -- disgust him. "If I were a Palestinian," he says, "I
wouldn't support Fatah or Hamas."
There is no topic Tamim finds more interesting than Israel. The country that
dealt such a devastating blow to the Arabs in 1967. That year, Tamim's 16th,
is a benchmark for him. "The Jews resemble us much more closely, in terms of
religion, language and many other respects, than the Europeans or the
Americans," he says.
He says he even understands that the Jews must defend themselves, says
Tamim, pointing out that millions of them were murdered in Europe. "(Former
Egyptian President Gamal Abdel) Nasser said that he intended to drive them
into the sea," he says. "Okay, then they had a right to fight back. But
today? We don't want war."
Not even a proxy war, and certainly not one outside his office door.