AhlulBayt News Agency: The Mossad has likely carried out more assassinations than any other intelligence agency in the world. The number of these assassinations, based on Ronen Bergman's book "Rise and Kill First," exceeds 3,000.
The book "Rise and Kill First" is an "Israeli" narrative about the background and formation of the intelligence organizations of this regime, providing important information about the assassinations carried out by these agencies.
The Zionist regime considers assassination as its strong point. The fake Israeli regime has used this method to improve its situation in the West Asian security equations, pursuing the following goals:
A) Destroying or disrupting the decision-making and strategic command of resistance groups;
B) Compensating for intelligence and operational failures against Palestinians by regaining the initiative in field operations;
C) Improving its military and security image;
D) Covering up internal crises in Occupied Territories and diverting public attention from internal issues to external ones.
Iran and Arab countries, particularly Palestine, Egypt, and Lebanon, have had the highest number of victims of assassinations, and despite the lack of clear and direct evidence about some of these assassinations, the Israeli foreign intelligence agency (Mossad) is the main suspect.
One of the most notorious Israeli assassinations in recent years has been the killing of Iranian and Iraqi scientists, aimed at disrupting the scientific progress of these two countries.
Some of these assassinations have taken place inside occupied Palestinian territories, while others have occurred outside these borders. One of these assassinations was the killing of Atef Bseiso in 1992 in France. Bseiso was a high-ranking member of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), who had united Palestinian fighters.
Bergman recounts Bseiso's assassination in his book "Rise and Kill First" as follows:
Israeli intelligence officials believed that Bseiso's connections with European intelligence services were a significant step towards Western support for the full diplomatic recognition of Arafat and the Palestine Liberation Organization, as well as isolating Israel.
The book states:
Bseiso decided to drive from Bonn to Paris instead of flying, and also changed his hotel. He made these changes due to security concerns, but a team was waiting for him in the hotel lobby and followed him to his room. Two men shot him five times. The gun they used had a silencer, and they quickly collected the shells and put them in a bag to make the investigation difficult.
The reactions to this assassination, as mentioned in "Rise and Kill First," are as follows:
Arafat, aware of the assassination situation, accused Israel. Colonel Yuri Saguy, the head of one of the Zionist regime's intelligence services, immediately denied any knowledge of who had carried out the assassination, but repeated the Zionist accusations against Bseiso. Seven years later, in March 1999, the French police announced that, based on obtained documents, the Mossad had designed and executed Bseiso's assassination.
This type of reaction has been repeated in many of the Zionist regime's assassinations, where a kind of confirmation is seen alongside a denial of responsibility for the assassination.
Sources:
"Rise and Kill First" (206), Chapter 19, May 26, 2019, Etemad Newspaper website.
"Six Important Books about the Palestine Liberation Organization," June 8, 2023, Iran Book News Agency (IBNA).
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