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Who did it? Foreign Report presents an alternative view

(from www.janes.com)

Israel`s military intelligence service, Aman, suspects that
Iraq is the state that sponsored the suicide attacks on the
New York Trade Center and the Pentagon in Washington.
Directing the mission, Aman officers believe, were two of
the world`s foremost terrorist masterminds: the Lebanese
Imad Mughniyeh, head of the special overseas operations
for Hizbullah, and the Egyptian Dr Ayman Al Zawahiri,
senior member of Al-Qaeda and possible successor of
the ailing Osama Bin Laden.

The two men have not been seen for some time.
Mughniyeh is probably the world`s most wanted outlaw.
Unconfirmed reports in Beirut say he has undergone
plastic surgery and is unrecognisable. Zawahiri is thought
to be based in Egypt. He could be Bin Laden`s chief
representative outside Afghanistan.

The Iraqis, who for several years paid smaller groups to
do their dirty work, were quick to discover the advantages
of Al-Qaeda. The Israeli sources claim that for the past two
years Iraqi intelligence officers were shuttling between
Baghdad and Afghanistan, meeting with Ayman Al
Zawahiri. According to the sources, one of the Iraqi
intelligence officers, Salah Suleiman, was captured last
October by the Pakistanis near the border with
Afghanistan. The Iraqis are also reported to have
established strong ties with Imad Mughniyeh.

"We`ve only got scraps of information, not the full picture,"
admits one intelligence source, "but it was good enough
for us to send a warning six weeks ago to our allies that
an unprecedented massive terror attack was expected.
One of our indications suggested that Imad Mughniyeh
met with some of his dormant agents on secret trips to
Germany. We believe that the operational brains behind
the New-York attack were Mughniyeh and Zawahiri, who
were probably financed and got some logistical support
from the Iraqi Intelligence Service (SSO)."

Mughniyeh was the only one believed to have tried it
before. On April 12th 1997, he was reported to be only two
hours away from achieving the highest goal of any terrorist
organisation (until last week): blowing up an Israeli El-Al
airliner above Tel Aviv. A man carrying a forged British
passport with the name Andrew Jonathan Neumann was
in a Jerusalem hotel preparing a bomb he was supposed
to take on board an El-Al flight leaving Israel, when it
accidentally went off. Andrew Jonathan Neumann was very
badly injured but strong enough to reveal later to the
Israelis that he was not British but Lebanese, and that his
operation was supposed to be a special "gift" to Israel
from Imad Mughniyeh.

`A psychopath`

"Bin Laden is a schoolboy in comparison with Mughniyeh,"
says an Israeli who knows Mughniyeh . "The guy is a
genius, someone who refined the art of terrorism to its
utmost level. We studied him and reached the conclusion
that he is a clinical psychopath motivated by uncontrollable
psychological reasons, which we have given up trying to
understand. The killing of his two brothers by the
Americans only inflamed his strong motivation."

Experts on Iraq and Saddam Hussein also believe that
Iraq was the state behind the two terror masterminds. "In
recent months, there was a change, and Iraq decided to
get into the terror business. On July 7th, they tried for the
first time to send a suicide bomber, trained in Baghdad, to
blow up Tel Aviv airport (Foreign Report No. 2651)."

Our sources believe that it will be very difficult to get to the
bottom of this unprecedented terror operation. However,
they believe the chief of the Iraqi SSO is Qusai Hussein,
the dictator`s son, and his organisation is the most likely
to have been involved.

Mughniyeh, 48, is a "sick man", says an intelligence officer
who was in charge of his file. He is considered by Western
intelligence agencies as the most dangerous active
terrorist today. He is wanted by several governments and
the Americans have put a $2m reward on his head.

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It was the assassination of one man in March 1984 that is
said to have made Mughniyeh the CIA`s most wanted
terrorist. Mughniyeh allegedly kidnapped the head of the
CIA station in Beirut, William Buckley. The kidnapping
triggered what later became known as `Irangate`, when the
Americans tried to exchange Buckley (and others) with
arms for Iran. However, the attempt ended in a fiasco. By
one unconfirmed account, Mughniyeh tortured and killed
Buckley with his own hands.

A year later, in a combined CIA/Mossad operation, a
powerful car bomb went off at the entrance to the house of
Hizbullah`s spiritual leader, Sheikh Muhammad Hussein
Fadlallah. Seventy-five people were killed. One of them
was his brother. Hunted by the CIA and the Mossad,
Mughniyeh hid in Iran.

In February 1992, Israeli helicopter gunships attacked the
convoy of the then head of Hizbullah, Sheikh Abas Musawi,
in South Lebanon. Musawi, his wife and children were
killed and the revenge attack followed a month later.
According to press reports, Mughniyeh was called back
into action and, in a well-planned and devastating attack,
his people blew up the Israeli embassy in Argentina. The
building was demolished and 92 were killed. Only last
year, after a long investigation, did Argentina issue a
warrant for Mughniyeh`s arrest.

The reprisal for the attack in Argentina came in December
1994, when a car bomb went off in a southern Shi`ite
suburb of Beirut. Four people were killed. One of them
was called Mughniyeh, but to the deep disappointment of
those Israelis who planted the bomb it was the wrong one.
Mughniyeh`s life was saved, but his other brother Fuad
was killed. Mughniyeh waited for his opportunity for
revenge.

Our Israeli sources claim to see Mughniyeh`s signature on
the wreckage in New York and Washington. How to
counter this kind of terrorism? "To fight these bastards you
don`t need a military attack," said an experienced Israeli
commando officer. "You only need to adopt Israel`s
assassination policy."

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Scheisse!Wäre ja auch alles zu einfach gewesen.
Jetzt müssen wir uns also mit einem weiteren Behämmerten auseinandersetzen.
Noch irrer als Bin Laden!
Ich würde mich in dieser Sache auch eher auf Informationen
des israelischen Geheimdienstes verlassen. Gegen den sind wiederum die Agenten von der CIA Schuljungen.