UK releases papers re: Israeli assasination Norway

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Bungled Israeli killing revealed[/size]
By Rick Fountain
BBC News


Papers released at the National Archives in London have revealed the details of a political murder by Israeli secret services 30 years ago.

A Moroccan catering worker was killed in Lillehammer, Norway, by two Israelis who had got out of a car beside him.

They thought they were killing Ali Hassan Salame, the Palestinian behind the killing of 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics.

Secret papers from 1974 reveal how the Israelis killed the wrong man.

The papers have just been released by the UK Foreign Office.

The man who was killed, Ahmed Bouchikhi, had been living in Lillehammer for nine years and his wife, Torill Larsen, a local woman, was expecting their child.

Mistaken identity

He had gone to the public baths the previous day and, while swimming, had a casual conversation with another Arab, an Algerian called Kamal Benamane.

They did not notice a man and a woman nearby, who were, in fact, Israeli agents.

The Israelis believed, wrongly, that Mr Benamane was a Black September courier who might lead them to their real target, Ali Hassan Salame, who had led the attack on the Israeli athletes at Munich.

The Israelis decided that Bouchikhi must be Salame, and prepared for the kill.

The climax came the following evening, with some of the Israeli squad, up to 15 strong, monitoring Bouchikhi's movements while others removed the evidence of their presence, checking out of hotels, assembling luggage in their hired cars, and getting into position for the hit.

They waited nearby, using walkie-talkies as the two assassins moved in, and then dispersed.

The key figures disappeared, but six of the others were rounded up and five were eventually convicted.

The real Ali Hassan Salame was killed five years later in Beirut.


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Published: 2005/01/01 01:34:16 GMT

[karpomrx]

My hope is that these nazi trash murderers kill each other off with the same mistaken zeal, or perhaps as a form of job security.

[Moses]

If I am not mistaken, the Bush Administration has allowed the Israeli's free reign to conduct assasinations here in the US.

[Moses]

And the Brits continue to issue British passports to known Israeli assasins:

politics.guardian.co.uk/politicspast/story/0,9061,1381811,00.html


Saturday January 1, 2005
The Guardian

The use of forged British passports by Mossad assassination squads triggered a Foreign Office protest.
But just as diplomats were about to call in the Israeli ambassador, it was discovered that civil servants elsewhere in Whitehall were in the process of renewing the UK passport held by a senior Israeli secret service agent.

"David Kimche is... controller of Israeli intelligence service operations in western Europe," a secret Foreign Office memo said in 1974. "He is a member of the diplomatic staff in the Paris embassy. He was born in the UK and for many years had a British passport. This has expired."

The murders of a Moroccan in Norway and Arab activists in Lebanon had infuriated diplomats when it was discovered that both had been carried out by Mossad agents, several of whom were using falsified British documents.

The realisation that Kimche was about to get a new passport astonished officials. "This is really extraordinary," one wrote. "At the same time as the minister is about to protest to the Israeli ambassador over the misuse of British passports for Israeli intelligence operations, we are apparently contemplating issuing a British passport to a man who may well have been in charge of the operation complained of."

Kimche was discouraged from applying.