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Auckland, NZ, [Führergeburtstag],
April 20, 2004Mossad's
bungling overseas By Stuart Dye MOSSAD enjoys
[sic.
enjoyed] a high
reputation among world intelligence communities but
has become notorious for falsifying foreign
nations' passports and for botched undercover
operations abroad.  Most
recently, two Israelis were sentenced to three
years' jail after pleading guilty to approaching a
prohibited military area in Cyprus.
Udi Hargov and Igal Damary were
spotted loitering in an area where a secret
shipment of Army equipment was being unloaded - a
shipment about which only the National Guard
hierarchy knew. The men were arrested at a fishing village on
the southern coast. At their seaside apartment
detectives found radio transmitters tuned in to
police frequencies. The men said they were part of a crack
anti-terrorist unit to prevent an act of terror
against Israel. They denied spying on Cyprus on behalf of
Turkey, but refused to say what the mission
was. However, it is believed
to have been a bungled Mossad operation,
possibly related to anti-aircraft missiles the
Greek-Cypriot Government was planning to deploy
on the island. There were other embarrassments only months
earlier. A self-confessed Israeli spy was given a
one-year suspended prison sentence by a Swiss court
for his part in a bungled wire-tapping
operation.  The
spy, known only by his pseudonym Issac
Bental, (right, shielded by policeman)
was also barred from entering Switzerland for five
years for what sentencing judge Hans
Wipraechtiger called a "callous violation of
Swiss sovereignty".
Bental's target was a Swiss citizen of Lebanese
origin, who Mossad thought had links with Hizbollah
Islamic extremists. In March 1999 a retired agent was convicted of
faking reports suggesting Syria was about to attack
Israel. A year earlier, two Mossad agents posing as
Canadian tourists were captured in Amman after
attacking a Hamas leader, Khalid Mashal,
with a high-tech device intended to poison him.
Mashal's life was saved after he was treated with
an antidote demanded of the Israelis by a furious
King Hussein. A deal was reached to spare the agents from
trial in Jordan by exchanging them for Hamas
founder Sheikh Ahmad Yassin, imprisoned in
Israel [Website note: Who
has now -- end of April 2004 -- been murdered by
Israeli airborne assassins]. But the diplomatic fall-out resulted in Canada
withdrawing its ambassador in Israel in protest at
the use of its passports for espionage. Since that incident Canadian passports have been
off limits, say Mossad sources. 
Ottawa
investigating: Mossad has history of using
counterfeit Canadian documents-
2002: Fury
at Mossad's continued use of Canadian Passports
in Murder Operation
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Sept
6, 1999: Probe of Mossad's use of Canadian ID
halted
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1998: Israeli
secret service still using Canadian
passports
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Ottawa
investigating: Mossad has history of using
counterfeit Canadian documents
Links
to Video clips on the story ... 
NZ
Passport System Under Threat 17/04/2004 08:10 PM
The NZ passport system is under threat after two
Israeli's were arrested for trying to obtain a
false NZ passport.-
NZ
Passport System Under Threat The NZ passport
system is under threat after two Israeli's were
arrested for trying to obtain a false NZ
passport.
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NZ
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