All-New Terrorist Evil-Doers Trading Card # 4 of 55 - Mossad.  *** COLLECT THEM ALL! ***

Mossad posing as Palestinian militants

 
International terrorist network of Israeli spies, moles, hit squads, and provocateurs.  Sponsored and supported by the Israeli government, and often backed up in terrorist activities by Iraeli police and military forces.
 
Ha-Mossad le-Modiin ule-Tafkidim Meyuhadim (Hebrew: Institute for Intelligence and Special Tasks) is commonly referred to as Mossad.  Its focus is on Arab nations and organizations throughout the world.
 
Mossad was formed in April 1951 from the Central Institute for Coordination and the Central Institute for Intelligence and Security.  Mossad is a civilian service, and does not use military ranks, although all of the Mossad's staff have served in the Israeli Defence Force (as a part of Israel's compulsory draft system), and many of them are officers.
 
In the photograph at left, what appears at first glance to be a group of Palestinian terrorists is revealed by the camera to actually be a poorly disguised group of Israeli secret service operatives, one of whom has apparently forgotten to remove or adequately conceal a Jewish religious symbol, worn as a necklace. 

Many Moslems in the Arab world believe that it was Mossad agents, and not Osama bin Laden, who were the true perpetrators behind the September 11 attacks, as explained in this 9/26/01 UPI interview with General Hameed Gul, former Director General of the Pakistani ISI.  Insofar as the US government has not been forthcoming in releasing evidence on bin Laden's involvement, there is little to dispell the popularity of this theory in Arab countries, or even similar speculation in other countries and the US, such as that typified by this Sunday Herald article, or this article from freespeech.org.

Mossad has been involved in several other spectacular debacles.  In 1973, Mossad murdered Ahmad Bouchikhi, an innocent Arab waiter in Lillehammer, Norway, who had been mistaken for Ali Hassan Salameh, one of the leaders of the Black September organization, which was responsible for the Munich Massacre.  The Mossad agents used fake Canadian passports, which angered the Canadian government.
 
In 1997, two Mossad agents were caught in Jordan, on mission to assassinate Sheikh Khaled Mashal, a leader of the Hamas terrorist group.  Again, they were using fake Canadian passports.  This led to a diplomatic row with Canada, and Israel was also further forced to release several Palestinian prisoners, in particular, the militant Hamas leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, who is playing a prominent role in attacks against Israeli civilians during the current Al-Aksa Intifada, in exchange for the Mossad agents.
 
Mossad is probably the single most well-known spy agency operating covertly in the United States.  Besides their possible involvement and undeniable presense in New York on 9/11/01, they have been caught operating false flag operations outside their own country on a number of occasions, dating back as far as their involvement, as a 3 year old agency, in the 1954 Lavon affair.
 
 
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The text of this trading card was freely adapted and brazenly plagiarized from several uncredited original sources by the Curmudgeonly Old Fussbudget.
 
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