| [74] Several former Mossad officers who took part in Operation "Wrath of God" have also told British journalists that Yuval Aviv's version of events is not accurate. Similar to the Mossad letter-bomb campaign, dozens of letter bombs were sent from Amsterdam to Israeli diplomatic posts around the world in September and October 1972. Zaiad Muchasi, the replacement for Hussein Al Bashir in Cyprus, was killed by a bomb in his Athens hotel room on April 11.
The Mossad agents continued into the church to search for Salameh, but did not find him.
Some time after their arrival a Volkswagen packed with plastic explosives was parked along Rue Verdun within view of the rented apartment. The unconscious driver was pulled from the van and tossed to the side of the road, and DIGOS was alerted that there had been "an interesting accident they should look into". Filming & Production She reportedly charged over £80,000 per hit and did most of her work in South America.
A cafe-van with three missile launchers protruding from the roof was spotted. [62], Black September conducted several other attacks only indirectly against Israel, including the seizure of Western diplomats in the Saudi embassy in Khartoum (see: 1973 Khartoum diplomatic assassinations), but the group was officially dissolved by al-Fatah in December 1974. She was sentenced to death for her actions, but president Roe Tae-Woo pardoned her.
[26], On June 17, 1982, two senior PLO members in Italy were killed in separate attacks. A prominent member of the Red Army Faction, Brigitte, was once described as the most evil and dangerous woman in Germany. The book also says that the team operated outside of direct government control, and that its only communications were with Harari. [55][56], Two Israelis suspected of being intelligence agents were shot and killed, as well as an Israeli official in Washington. Five of the captured were convicted of the killing and imprisoned, but were released and returned to Israel in 1975. When the source failed to show up, the team members began suspecting they were under surveillance. Nevertheless, she was released on parole in 2007 and is still alive today. Here, we look at some of the deadliest real-life female assassins to see how they compare... Mexico's most prolific female assassin Maria Jimenez confessed to murdering 20 people for the notoriously dangerous Zetas drug cartel. On the night of April 9, 1973, Sayeret Matkal, Shayetet 13, and Sayeret Tzanhanim commandos landed on the coast of Lebanon in Zodiac speedboats launched from Israeli Navy missile boats offshore. 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Victor Ostrovsky claimed that Salameh was instrumental in leading Mossad off course by feeding it false information about his whereabouts. : Biography. Local sources revealed that she was a freelance assassin, and it was never learned who exactly contracted her to kill the agent. [54], Mossad found out about the plan to assassinate Golda Meir on January 14, 1973, when a local volunteer informed Mossad that he had handled two telephone calls from a payphone in an apartment block where PLO members sometimes stayed. She also appointed General Aharon Yariv as her Advisor on Counterterrorism; he, along with Mossad Director Zvi Zamir, took the principal role in directing the ensuing operation. After Hamshari identified himself, the agent signalled to other colleagues, who then sent a detonation signal down the telephone line, causing the bomb to explode. Part of the radical left's “German Autumn”, Brigitte was involved in a series of hijackings - including one on a plane – alongside 30 assassinations and bombings throughout the 70s. It is also known that Mossad agent Michael Harari led the creation and direction of the teams,[8] although some may not have always been under government responsibility. According to police, the bullets were "carefully grouped about his heart and in his head".
[26][28], On February 14, 1988, a car bomb exploded in Limassol, Cyprus, killing Palestinians Abu Al Hassan Qasim and Hamdi Adwan, and wounding Marwan Kanafami. In fact, Ostrovsky says in his book that it was Kidon units that performed the assassinations. Munich (2005) - Marie-Josée Croze as Jeanette the Dutch Assassin - IMDb. bombing ten PLO bases in Syria and Lebanon, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Countering Terrorism: The Israeli Response To The 1972 Munich Olympic Massacre And The Development Of Independence Covert Action Teams, "Olympics Massacre: Munich – The real story", "La France, théâtre historique des assassinats politiques", "Iraqi, on a Guerrilla 'Mission' Shot and Killed in Paris Street", Chapter 2: Encyclopedia of the Palestine Problem, "Palestinian Shot Dead By Gunmen in Athens", Chapter 8: Encyclopedia of the Palestine Problem, "Israel in shock as Munich killers freed", Spielberg's take on Olympics massacre called into question, Yom Kippur War: Grand Deception Or Intelligence Blunder. However, Idoia was perhaps best known for her rumoured sexual prowess and was said to have slept with policemen before shooting their colleagues – earning her the nickname of La Tigresa. The terrorists, who had been involved in the Munich massacre, were taken to the hospital and eventually allowed to fly to Libya, but within months, all were killed by Mossad.
Black September commander Ali Hassan Salameh began planning a missile attack against Meir's plane as it arrived in Rome. During the operation, two Lebanese police officers, an Italian citizen, and Najjar's wife were also killed.
[10] This is supported by author Gordon Thomas who was given access to the debriefing reports submitted by the eight Kidon and 80 member backup team that were involved in the assassinations. : And now, she is married to a former South Korean intelligence officer and has two children. Shayetet 13 naval commandos and Sayeret Tzanhanim paratroopers also raided PLO arms-manufacturing facilities and fuel dumps. Jeanette [40] This account was challenged by Aaron J. Klein, who wrote that Adnan died of heart failure in the 1970s and that Safady was killed by Christian Phalangists in Lebanon in the early 1980s. Mark Freestone, a senior lecturer at the Centre for Psychiatry at Queen Mary University, London, who worked on the show, said: “One of the defending characteristics of psychopaths is they are not anxious at all about the things that you and I are anxious about. "Olympics: A 23-Year-Old Would Still Healing". [26], Mossad continued to search for Ali Hassan Salameh, nicknamed the Red Prince, who was the head of Force 17 and the Black September operative believed by Israel to be the mastermind behind the Munich massacre. The assassins in Munich are presented as quintessential everyday guys—patriots who want to defend their country and who gradually grow disillusioned, guilt … [26] This attack was either the work of Mossad or the Abu Nidal Organization.
However, the blast also killed four innocent bystanders, including a British student and a German nun, and injured 18 other people in the vicinity. At the time, Zwaiter was the PLO representative in Italy, and while Israel privately claimed he was a member of Black September and was involved in a failed plot against an El Al airliner, members of the PLO argued that he was in no way connected. Israel believed him to be the head of Black September in Cyprus, though another reason for his assassination may have been his close ties with the KGB.