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resident Hafez al-
Assad's intense cam-
paign to . paint the
aborted bombing of an El Al
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But incredible as it may
seem, Assad's theory —
publicly advanced in a rare in-
terview with Time magazine
— has apparently won some
modest support elsewhere in
Western Europe, especially in
Greece, as evidenced by the
failure of the European Com-
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proposals for diplomatic
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Syrian diplomats have been
advancing Assad's theory in
private diplomatic exchanges
in major capitals around the
world. In much of the Arab
and Islamic world. the Third
World, and the Soviet-led
bloc, of course, Assad's ver-
sion of the plot is officially
accepted as the truth.
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U.S. officials said that
those Europeans who have
been murmuring of some
suspected Mossad involve-
ment in setting up convicted
Jordanian terrorist Nezar
Hindawi were simply looking
for an excuse to avoid direct
action against Syria. These
Europeans, basically seen by
Washington as weak and in-
decisive in the fight against
terrorism, did not want to
risk upsetting Assad by im-
posing even minimal diplo-
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In an editorial, The Wall
Street Journal reflected this
widely-held American disdain
for the European allies —
minus Britain. "There will
never be a clearer `smoking
gun' implicating a Soviet
client state with terrorism
than the evidence connected
with the London bombing at-
tempt," the editorial said.
"And every time Europe
backs away from retaliation
against such brazen affronts
to domestic security, it will
invite yet further depreda-
tions."
That some people are pre-
pared to believe that the
Mossad is capable of carrying
out such a supposed plot is an
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Israel, to a certain degree,
has itself to blame for this
predicament. Because of the
very mystique surrounding
the Mossad, there is a prevail-
ing assumption that Israel's
external intelligence gather-
ing service can concoct
almost anything, no matter
how remote and farfetched.
This notion has been pop-
ularized in novels and films,
often with official Mossad
cooperation.
But this image of an all-
powerful and all-capable
Mossad has also become a
two-edged sword for Israel —
as underlined by Assad's
semi-successful campaign to
link the Mossad to the El Al
incident. But Mossad is by
now means perfect. In fact.
there have been serious
blunders, such as the failure
to anticipate the Egyptian- -
Syrian surprise attack on
Yom Kippur in 1973 and to
understand the full fallout
from the war in Lebanon in
1982. It was Rafael Eitan, a
former Mossad master spy.
moreover, who ran Jonathan
Jay Pollard in Washington.
Lately. the Mossad has also
been in the news as a result of
the Mordechai Vanunu affair.
Vanunu, who had worked for
ten years as a nuclear techni-
cian at the Dimona reactor.
sold secrets of Israel's alleged
atomic weapons program to
the London Sunday Times
before disappearing. There is
suspicion that he earlier had
made some very sensitive in-
formation available to Israeli
communists and Arabs.
magazine
Newsweek
reported that he had been
kidnapped by Mossad agents
and brought back to Israel.
where he is now awaiting a
secret trial. But the facts are
unclear. After reporting how
Vanunu was supposedly lured
aboard a yacht by a woman
and then apprehended by the
Mossad crew in international
waters, the magazine said,
"But skeptics in Europe and
the Mideast suspect the leak
was actually orchestrated by
the Mossad as a warning to
hostile Islamic nations, par-
ticularly Syria and Iran, that
Israel's long-suspected nu-
clear capabilities are real. In
that case, Vanunu's case
could quietly be dropped."
This same skepticism was
cited .in reports on the case
published in The Washington
Post and The New York
Times. Is it possible? Did the
Mossad organize the Vanunu
affair? There is no doubt that
this version of the events is
possible. It has some sup-
porters. But the real truth is
still very much in doubt.
What is clear is that in the
aftermath of the Hindawi
trial in London and the
Vanunu affair, a new spate of
Mossad-related stories can
now be expected to surface in
the international news media.
The spotlight is once again on
the Mossad.
Major American news
organizations, which were in-
itially reluctant to follow up
the original Sunday Times
report on Vanunu's allega-
tions, have now assigned
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