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["By way of deception shall you Conquer." -- Mossad's motto
Victor Ostrovsky was a career Mossad agent. He left Israel's
secret police agency and returned to his native Canada, where he
wrote his best-selling book _By Way of Deception_. He is the
only Mossad agent to leave the agency, discuss its covert
activities, and survive for more than one year.
"Mossad" means "by way of deception" in Hebrew. - C.M.]
The Mossad "handler" then masterminds the world Trade Center bombing. But
the bomb, says Ostrovsky, is never meant to detonate. Mossad is supposed
to call the CIA in the nick of time, becoming instant heroes. "I can just
see the experts sitting on television saying the tower would not sustain
the brunt of this one-ton truck bomb." The bomb may have exploded
prematurely, Ostrovsky explains.
Ostrovsky points out correctly that in the past the Mossad has effectively
used this modus operandi. In the early 1950s, Mossad recruited agents to
bomb American buildings in Cairo, hoping to drive a wedge between the U.S.
and Gamel Abdul Nasser. When the facts became known in Israel, the scandal
brought down the government. According to Ostrovsky, in 1984 Mossad
detonated bombs outside of the U.S. embassy in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia's
capital city, claiming credit in the name of an unknown radical Saudi
resistance group. Ostrovsky, a member of Mossad at the time, says the
purpose was to weaken U.S./Saudi relations by showing' the U.S. that the
regime was fragile and about to fall.
But none of this explains why Mossad would put tens of thousands of
Americans -- presumably many of them Jews -- at risk.
- R.I.F.
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