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["By way of deception shall you Conquer." -- Mossad's motto
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Victor Ostrovsky was a career Mossad agent. He left Israel's
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secret police agency and returned to his native Canada, where he
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wrote his best-selling book _By Way of Deception_. He is the
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only Mossad agent to leave the agency, discuss its covert
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activities, and survive for more than one year.
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"Mossad" means "by way of deception" in Hebrew. - C.M.]
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[From _The Village Voice_, April 6, 1993]
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BY WAY OF DECEPTION?
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By Robert I. Friedman
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Renegade Mossad agent Victor Ostrovsky told the Voice that Israeli
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intelligence may have been behind the World Trade Center bombing. Mossad
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had motive and opportunity, says Ostrovsky, whose book about his spy days
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caused a furor in Israel as it climbed the best-seller charts in Europe and
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America. Ostrovsky admits he doesn't have "a shred of evidence" to support
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his theory, which in my view is extremely dubious.
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But consider: Prime Minister Yizthak Rabin summarily expels to a snow-
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covered mountain in Lebanon some 400 Palestinians suspected of aiding and
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abetting Hamas, a fundamentalist group in the occupied territories that
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killed six Israeli soldiers in November. The expulsion was "a big PR
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mistake," says Ostrovsky, noting that the international media and most
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foreign governments severely criticized Israel.
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Meanwhile, the intifada had taken a new deadly turn. Spurred by the
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expulsion, Palestinian fundamentalists killed 12 Israelis this month, the
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highest single-month casualty figure since December 1987, when the intifada
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started. Desperate to crack down on the Palestinians in the territories,
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and draw media attention away from 400 freezing Palestinian deportees,
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Rabin needed a plan to discredit Muslims in general and Palestinians in
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particular so that Israel would emerge in the media as a hero.
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Mossad, says Ostrovsky, then concocted a devious scheme. First Israeli
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intelligence leaks to Judy Miller of The New York Times that Hamas is
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headquartered in Fairfax, Virginia, and is sending instructions to the
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territories via fax and courier. The Times publishes the account on the
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front page, using as a news hook the fact that Israel had just arrested
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three Arab Americans from Chicago who were in the territories organizing
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Hamas terror cells. Following the Times story, the ADL and other Jewish
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institutions start carping about Palestinian Islamic terror cells operating
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in America.
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Having prepared public opinion and having already infiltrated the radical
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mosques in New Jersey and Brooklyn where Abdel Rahman preached and
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disciples like El Sayyid Nosair prayed, Mossad, says Ostrovsky, almost
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certainly recruited a close associate of the rabble-rousing Egyptian blind
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man. The insider is recruited In what Ostrovsky calls a "false flag
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operation." The Arab "thinks he is being recruited by an Iranian agent or a
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Libyan," says Ostrovsky. He never suspects he is actually being "run" by
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Mossad.
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The Mossad "handler" then masterminds the world Trade Center bombing. But
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the bomb, says Ostrovsky, is never meant to detonate. Mossad is supposed
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to call the CIA in the nick of time, becoming instant heroes. "I can just
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see the experts sitting on television saying the tower would not sustain
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the brunt of this one-ton truck bomb." The bomb may have exploded
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prematurely, Ostrovsky explains.
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Ostrovsky points out correctly that in the past the Mossad has effectively
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used this modus operandi. In the early 1950s, Mossad recruited agents to
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bomb American buildings in Cairo, hoping to drive a wedge between the U.S.
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and Gamel Abdul Nasser. When the facts became known in Israel, the scandal
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brought down the government. According to Ostrovsky, in 1984 Mossad
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detonated bombs outside of the U.S. embassy in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia's
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capital city, claiming credit in the name of an unknown radical Saudi
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resistance group. Ostrovsky, a member of Mossad at the time, says the
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purpose was to weaken U.S./Saudi relations by showing' the U.S. that the
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regime was fragile and about to fall.
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But none of this explains why Mossad would put tens of thousands of
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Americans -- presumably many of them Jews -- at risk.
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- R.I.F.
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