One of those passengers subsequently turned out to be an American citizen. — And the difference is…?
Asia Times
January 25, 2003
Middle East
On the road with Murder Inc
By Ian Urbina
WASHINGTON – Last week Israel announced that it would begin taking a more aggressive role in the war on terrorism, including the use of so-called targeted killings in the US and other friendly countries.
This was a significant shift for the Israeli government, which has since the late 1990s officially steered away from practicing lethal covert operations beyond its own borders and throughout the occupied territories. But the most surprising thing about the announcement was the subsequent silence from the Bush administration, which until recently has been a vocal critic of Israel’s use of extrajudicial killings.
Indeed, it seems that both Washington and Tel Aviv, to some extent in interplay with each other, have come a long ways toward rehabilitating the legitimacy of state-sanctioned assassination.
David Irving comments:
ONCE again the decrees of George W Bush and Tony Blair et al. compare unfvourably with those of Adolf Hitler and his regime.
One of these days — when my stolen files are returned to me by the British government’s officers — I will post on this website the entry in the wartime diary of Colonel Erwin Lahousen, chief of Abwehr II (counter-espionage), which records the ruling by Hitler, on an application Intelligence Chief Vice Admiral Wilhelm Canaris (below), that there are to be no assassinations of foreign leaders or staffs.
The entry in Lahousen’s diary of February 2, 1943 read: Hitler had “on principle expressly forbidden Abwehr II [i.e., sabotage] attacks directed against individual personages.” Canaris had asked permission to mount an operation to liquidate the Soviet General Staff..
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