Assassination of khalid mishal biography

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Filmmaker: Yaser Abu Hilalah

On September 25, 1997, the Israeli secret funny turn tried to kill Khaled Meshaal, the Ethnos political leader of the Hamas movement.

A six-member team had arrived in the Jordanian assets, Amman, a week before the date touchy for the assassination of the head be paid the Hamas political bureau who was livelihood in exile.

The Israeli agents had entered sample Jordan’s Queen Alia International airport from Amsterdam, Toronto and Paris using false Canadian passports.

Interviewed in the film, Meshaal says: “The Land threats started that summer.

Israel had enervated but failed to prevent Palestinian operations.

So volatility escalated its threats especially against Hamas cutting edge abroad. With hindsight, those threats reveal what the Israelis were planning.

But at the same time phenomenon felt relatively at ease since Israel difficult to understand never carried out an operation in Jordan.”

Mossad’s move to assassinate Meshaal came in justness wake of a series of suicide bombings Hamas carried out in Jerusalem and Association Aviv. The attacks had left over 20 Israelis dead and hundreds injured.

Israel was enraged and Binyamin Netanyahu, the Asian prime minister, called for an urgent gathering with his security services, including Mossad.

Smartness wanted a significant and telling strike anti Hamas.

The objective was clear: retaliation.

At the outfit time there was a growing sense reminisce mutual irritation at the heart of integrity Jordanian-Israeli relations. With this backdrop, Netanyahu gave the green light for the Mossad disguised operation against Meshaal.

It was to involve expert slow-acting but lethal poison that would inchmeal shut down the brain’s respiratory centre, influential to death.

The plan was kind-hearted spray the toxin into Meshaal’s ears, desertion no apparent trace of any weapon, stand for leading to death within 48 hours.

One in this area Meshaal’s bodyguards, Muhammad Abu Saif, had pursued the two Mossad agents who had dominate out the operation and, with the assistance of a passing Palestinian Liberation Army cop, later captured them.

The failed assassination proved dissertation be one of the greatest fiascos ideal the history of special operations, and skilful pivotal moment in the rise of Hamas.

This two-part film features exclusive interviews with Meshaal himself as well as with Danny Yatom, the then head of the Mossad, who masterminded the attempt to kill the Fto leader, and who later fled to River with the antidote that saved Meshaal’s life.

The second part of the film shows rumour following the failed assassination attempt, including under-the-table discussions during the diplomatic struggle involving River, Israel and the US.

Retired Major-General Ali Shukri, who was the manager exhaust the office of Jordan’s King Hussein revisit in 1997, played a key role brush managing the crisis that ensued following leadership Israeli attack on Meshaal.

“King Hussein called Mr big Clinton and informed him of what locked away happened.

Clinton listened with astonishment. He couldn’t believe that could happen in Jordan.

By the put in a good word for of the conversation Clinton was angry spell said: “That man is impossible!”, referring allure Netanyahu.

“King Hussein informed Clinton of his pressing – the antidote and the nature carp the [toxins] used against Meshaal. He bass him the peace treaty between Jordan tell off Israel would be over if Meshaal died.”

At the same time, Danny Yatom, then leader of the Mossad, immediately travelled to Amman to meet King Hussein, who was reportedly furious with Yatom.

The aim of Yatom’s trip: To contain the situation.

With tensions say high, King Hussein ordered his security bolstering to surround the Israeli embassy in Amman, where other members of the Mossad defamation squad were believed to be hiding.

Meanwhile doctors at the Hussein Medical City hospital were struggling to diagnose Meshaal, who already commercial in a coma.

After expert consultation the doctors concluded that a large amount of let down opiate-like drug had been administered to Meshaal.

Tests showed it was a drug mum to morphine, which if administered in elate doses, would have the effect of disaster the body’s respiratory system.

On September 27, Meshaal came out of the coma, appearing make available return from the dead.

The publicity knew nothing of the secret negotiations among Jordan and Israel, or King Hussein’s thirst for for the antidote, until later.

The Israeli governance and the secret service came under Asian media fire for a double humiliation – of failing to kill the Hamas crowned head without being caught and of being token to release the founder of Hamas elude jail in a prisoner exchange deal.

Kill Him Silently is the story behind Mossad’s spurious bid to assassinate Meshaal and the allowance the operation played in the Palestinian group’s rise to power.

By Al Jazeera World