Mossad Exposed in Phony `Palestinian Al-Qaeda' Caper

This article appears in the December 20, 2002 issue of
Executive Intelligence Review.
Mossad Exposed in Phony `Palestinian Al-Qaeda' Caper

by Michele Steinberg and Hussein Askary
The United States government has been provided with
concrete evidence that the Israeli Mossad and other
Israeli intelligence services have been involved in a
13-month effort to "recruit" an Israeli-run, phony
"al-Qaeda cell" among Palestinians, so that Israel
could achieve a frontline position in the U.S. war
against terrorism and get a green light for a
worldwide "revenge without borders" policy. The
question: Does the United States have the moral fiber
to investigate?

Evidence of the Israeli dirty tricks burst onto the
public scene on Dec. 6, when Col. Rashid Abu Shbak,
head of the Palestinian Preventive Security Services
in the Gaza Strip, held a press conference revealing
the details of the alleged plot, as his agency had put
the pieces together. The revelations undermine the
"big lie" that Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has used to
justify new brutal attacks on Palestinian civilians in
the Gaza Strip and other occupied areas. Sharon
claimed on Dec. 4 that Israeli intelligence had "hard
evidence" of al-Qaeda operations in the Gaza Strip.
Now, the top Palestinian leadership has shown the
United States and other nations how Israeli
intelligence entities were creating that al-Qaeda
link!

American leader Lyndon LaRouche, a Democratic
Presidential pre-candidate in 2004, commented that
these revelations, if confirmed, could be "of
strategic importance" in stopping the American,
British, and Israeli warhawks pushing for a Middle
East war, beginning with an invasion of Iraq. A war
would justify the Sharon government's plan to
annihilate the very idea of a Palestinian state.
LaRouche warned that if institutions of the American
Presidency and the international community
successfully block an American pre-emptive war on
Iraq, the biggest danger would be that a "mega-terror"
attack, blamed on Palestinians, or an "Iraqi-linked"
al-Qaeda, would be staged by Israel's ruling
Jabotinskyite fanatics, to put the war back on the
agenda.

News about the Mossad-run attempt to create an
al-Qaeda cell came when well-informed intelligence
sources based in Washington had already told EIR that
there are many doubts about the Mossad's hasty
declaration that "al-Qaeda" had been responsible for
the Nov. 28 attack on a hotel in Mombasa, Kenya, where
three Israelis were killed, and the failed rocket
attack on an Israeli chartered jet that was departing
from Mombasa airport. There was no identification of
the bombers within the first five days of the
incident, the sources pointed out, yet Sharon's
government ministers went on an immediate propaganda
rampage announcing worldwide revenge (see article in
this section). Authorities in Kenya also denied the
al-Qaeda link. But the usefulness of blaming al-Qaeda,
for the Israeli right, was palpable, when Foreign
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the Kenya attacks
"a golden opportunity" to prove to the United States
that Bush's war on terrorism, and Israel's war with
the Palestinians is the same thing. Netanyahu's
faction has violently rejected the Palestinian
Authority's revelations, and so far, the American and
European press have followed suit, despite the
dramatic nature of these charges, and the documents
that the Palestinians have provided to the
international press.

more at http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2002/2949idf_qaeda.html