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Subject: THEY'RE BACK:DIRTY TRICKS DEPT OF

GSSTo: freemanlist@lists.io.com , jai@shamash.org

Subj: THEY'RE BACK

Date: 8/27/1998 2:46:30 AM Central Daylight Time

From: chamish@netvision.net.il

(barry chamish)

HOT OFF THE PRESSES AND STRAIGHT FROM THE JERUSALEM POST. THEY'RE BACK AND READY TO GO IN ACTION AGAIN, THE ONE, THE ONLY, SHABAK DIRTY TRICKS DEPARTMENT. AND IF ENOUGH ISRAELIS DON'T WAKE UP AND FIGURE OUT WHAT THEY'RE DOING, WE'RE ALL GOING TO BE VERY TRAUMATIZED AND SOON. BARRY CHAMISH

 Report: New Jewish underground targeting Mordechai

JERUSALEM (August 27) - A new Jewish underground is planning to assassinate Defense Minister Yitzhak Mordechai, launch "massive murder attacks against Arabs in the West Bank," and attack holy sites on the TempleMount, according to the London-based newsletter Foreign Report.

The newsletter, to be published today, quotes an Israeli security source as saying the aim of the attacks is to provoke Palestinian retaliation and create "a spiral of violence that will sabotage the Middle East peace process." At the same time, the assassination of a senior cabinet minister is intended to paralyze the government, presumably to prevent any further transfer of territory.

 Mordechai's spokesman Avi Benayahu would neither deny nor confirm the report. He told The Jerusalem Post last night that the security arrangements for the defense minister were determined solely by the General Security Service.

"These arrangements are based on the assessments of the GSS and are not open for discussion in public," Benayahu said.

He declined to say whether protection for Mordechai has been beefed up. He added that Mordechai is one of the ministers most heavily protected by the GSS, although on a scale far less than Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. Still, the GSS has had special armor-plated cars built for the defense minister. Earlier this week, Mordechai said in an interview with Israel Radio that he would not let extremists change his resolve.

"I operate in my own way. From the time I get up until very late at night all that I am interested in is the security of the state and all my interests are for the society of Israel," Mordechai said.

"I see with concern these extremist groups which try through violence - either verbal violence or other kinds of violence - to dictate our steps," he said. "They won't succeed in turning us from our path. If they think they can influence me, or my way and deeds, they are mistaken."

The Israeli source told Foreign Report that the head of the GSS has given top priority to stopping the Jewish terrorists rather than Arab terrorists.

"Terrorist action by our zealots against Moslem shrines is a hundred times more dangerous for Israel than Moslem car bombs in downtown Tel Aviv," the source was quoted as saying. He asserted that an attack on the shrines would immediately prompt the Islamic world to declare a holy war against Israel.

 "It could be a catastrophe if more than a billion Moslems, most of them at the moment indifferent to the Israeli-Arab conflict... turned against Israel," the source said. The source said the GSS "has discovered that the Jewish underground has been acquiring information about Mordechai, his private life and his home."

The newsletter said Mordechai was singled out for attack, because he is considered to be relatively moderate. "I feel in my bones that Yitzhak Rabin's assassination was not the last political murder in Israel," the security source said. "We are doing all that we can to prevent a second assassination. If we will fail again it might be a catastrophe for Israeli democracy."