ETERNAL VIGILANCE

Hit Man Admits Mossad Ties

Widespread Israeli political assassination network exposed in Lebanon

By Christopher Bollyn
July 3, 2006 | American Free Press

Israel's long history of involvement in political assassinations in Lebanon was exposed when a Lebanese assassin confessed to working for Israeli intelligence and having killed a number of Lebanese and Palestinian resistance leaders.

A Lebanese man working for Mossad, Israel's military intelligence agency, confessed to having assassinated a number of senior members of the Lebanon-based Hezbollah and Palestinian resistance groups over a seven-year period, according to a recent Reuters news report. The confession by the Lebanese assassin that he worked for Mossad is a significant confirmation that Israel has long been involved in carrying out political murders in Lebanon.

On June 13, the Lebanese army reported that Mahmud Rafah, who had been arrested along with three others in connection with the May 26 killing of two Islamic Jihad officials, was a leading member of an Israeli "terrorist" network behind at least three other major assassinations in Lebanon.

"Investigations by military intelligence showed that the terrorist network that was discovered had links to the Israeli Mossad for several years and that its members underwent training both inside Israel and outside," the army statement said.

"The network was tasked by this agency [Mossad] with carrying out these operations and was given secret communication and monitoring devices for this purpose, along with detailed maps of the target,: the army said, including "forged documents and bags with secret pockets."

TOOLS OF THE TRADE
The find included an Israeli camera that can take detailed photographs of streets while concealed within a bag and forged driving and identity documents which Rafah had received from Israel, the army said.

The Lebanese army released television footage that showed equipment discovered at Rafah's house in the Lebanese town of Hasbaya, on the border with Israel, and in a chalet that it said had been used in the latest assassinations. The footage also showed an air conditioning unit and a large speaker with built-in secret cabinets that the army said were used to transport explosives used in the Sidon bombing. Other finds included a television cabinet and a table fitted with secret drawers to conceal coded messaging devices.

Numerous Palestinian and Hezbollah resistance leaders have been killed in Lebanon in attacks, which the organizations blamed on Israel.

Rafah admitted to the murder of Ali Hasan Dib, a Hezbollah official, in 1999 in the southern town of Arba, the killing of another Hezbollah official in Beirut in 2003 and the killing of Jihad Ahmad Jibril, a Palestinian, in 2002, the army said. Jibril, who was killed in a car bombing in Beirut, was the son of Ahmad Jibril, head of the Damascusbased Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command, a Palestinian resistance group opposed to the Israeli occupation of Palestine.

Rafah also confessed to planting bombs that had either been found and defused or missed their targets, the army statement said.

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Editor's comment: We were right on the money when we said Mossad was behind the assassination of former Lebanese PM Rafik Hariri.

This bust puts the onus for that crime squarely on the Zionist cabal. Where one cell of assassins exists, there will be others.

If anyone may think that the Hariri assassination is not connected to the Mossad, we offer a carbon copy false flag bomb attack in Gaza on October 15, 2003 which killed 4 CIA agents in a U.S. diplomatic convoy.

As the linked article shows, the logistics of the Gaza blast was far beyond the capabilities of the Palestinians in Gaza. Actually, the Gaza blast precedes the Beirut killing of Hariri by nearly a year and a half.

It would not be out of line to see the Gaza bombing as a template for the intrigue in Beirut, an intrigue which had as its motive the ousting of Syria from Lebanon to attempt once again to bring Lebanon under the influence of the Israeli army.

One of the best summations of the Israeli-Mossad policy in the Levant was put forth by Justin Raimondo (Justin must have been looking over our shoulder) and with commentary by Henk Ruyssenaars.

Nothing has changed except the faces now in Israel with Ehud Olmert now as PM in Sharon's absense.

Just last May, Olmert called for renewed push for settlement of the West Bank by Jewish extremists.

And now, after the capture of an IDF soldier by Palestinians in Gaza, as reported by Ha'aretz, Olmert has said. "The age of restraint has come to an end..."

This was predictable and was foretold by this editor during the upheavals caused by Sharon's disengagement plan. Back then, we said that after the dust settles, the former policies would be brought back out, revitalized, in a renewed push for a land grab against Palestinians along with further attacks by the IDF.