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Oct. 31, 2005 On April 5, 1986, La Belle, a discotheque in East Berlin, then still under the rule of Communist East Germany, was bombed by terrorists. Two Americans were killed and 79 others injured, along with scores of Europeans. President Ronald Reagan accused Libya of mounting the attack, citing as evidence recordings of intercepted messages broadcast from Tripoli, Libya, giving notice of the attack. On April 15, 1986, the US began bombing Libya, killing 30 people. Intelligence agencies of other countries had rejected the intercepted recordings as suspect or fraudulent. After all, it does not make sense for terrorists to announce their surprise attacks. Furthermore, this was the first time that such broadcasts had been heard. But the US believed or pretended to believe in the authenticity of the messages. In the 90’s, when East German archives had been opened, evidence was turned up that seemed to implicate some Libyans, who were convicted, after a years-long trial, but no connection to Moammar Qaddafi was ever proven. Victor Ostrovsky, a Canadian-born Jew who migrated to Israel with his family in 1950 at the age of 5, had begun to work for Ha-Mossad (Israeli intelligence) in 1984. He claims that operatives of the Mossad planted a device called a Trojan in an apartment building in Tripoli on February 17, 1986. The Trojan would receive transmissions in one frequency from Israel and rebroadcast them from Tripoli. The broadcasts intercepted by the US issued ultimately from Israel, unbeknownst to the Libyans. Israel’s motive was indeed a false-flag operation, in which Libya would be made to look as if it had aggressed against the US. Whether Israeli trickery was known and countenanced by Ronald Reagan is a debatable point. I don’t know exactly why Ostrovsky’s allegations never led to any serious investigations. They were allowed merely to fall silent. Anyway, the public prosecutor who handled the La Belle case in Berlin was Detlev Mehlis, who, reportedly, consistently pursued German, American and Israeli interests, obeying political pressures and building a case on insufficient evidence. Of course, these are generalities that would be hard to substantiate at this late date, but the mere fact of the existence of Ostrovsky’s entirely credible arguments, for which one can hardly discern a possible ulterior motive, lends weight to the possibility that Mehlis may not have been acting on a strictly impartial basis in the matter. Detlev Mehlis is the same investigator who prepared the recent UN report on the assassination of Rafiq Hariri, the Lebanese premier, in Beirut in February, 2004. Apparently, Mehlis’ main witness is Zuhair al-Siddik, a convicted swindler who was paid over $1,000,000 to make the deposition that implicates Syrian officials in the assassination. I would like to think that the US is a country of incorruptible integrity that would never be a party to Israeli false-flag operations, of which there have been quite a few over the years, but the recent spectacle of such items as the Niger forgeries, the WMD hoax and the mythical al-Qaeda-Iraq link makes it easy for me at least to entertain suspicions when I hear about things like this. In other words, the question is my mind is, “Is the US attempting to frame Syria for Hariri’s assassination?” If so, then another question follows immediately, “Was the assassination of Rafiq Hariri another Israeli false-flag operation?” ------------ About the author Thomas Keyes: I have written two books: A SOJOURN IN ASIA (non-fiction) and A TALE OF UNG (fiction), neither published so far. I have studied languages for years and traveled extensively on five continents. Email: udikeyes@yahoo.com Tell a friend about this site! ------------ All articles are EXCLUSIVE to Useless-Knowledge.com and are not allowed to be posted on other websites. ARTICLE THIEVES WILL BE PROSECUTED! |
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