Glenn – No Beauty In The Beast – Israel Without Her Mascara

89“In the summer of 1983, this same informant told the Mossad about a large Mercedes truck that was being fitted bythe Shi’ite Muslims with spaces that could hold bombs. Now, the Mossad knew that because of its size, there wereonly a few logical targets, one of which must be the U.S. compound. The question then was whether or not to warnthe Americans to be on particular alert for a truck matching the description. Admony, in refusing to give theAmericans specific information on the truck, said, ‘No, we’re not there to protect Americans.’ At the same time,however, all Israeli installations were given the specific details and warned to watch for a truck matching thedescription of the Mercedes.”“At 6:20 a.m. on October 23, 1983, a large Mercedes truck approached the Beirut airport, passing well within sightof Israeli sentries in their nearby base and turning left into the parking lot. A U.S. Marine guard reported withalarm that the truck was gathering speed, but before he could do anything, the truck roared toward the entrance ofthe four-story reinforced concrete Aviation Safety Building, used as headquarters for the Eighth Marine Battalion,crashing through a wrought-iron pate, hitting the sand-bagged guard post, smashing through another barrier, andramming over a wall of sandbags into the lobby, exploding with such a terrific force that the building was instantlyreduced to rubble.”“The loss of 241 U.S. Marines, most of them still sleeping in their cots at the time of the suicide mission, was thehighest single-day death toll for the Americans since 246 died throughout Vietnam at the start of the Tet offensiveon January 13,1968. The general attitude at Mossad about the Americans was: “As far as the Yanks go, we are nothere to protect them. They can do their own watching. They wanted to stick their nose into this thing, so let them paythe price.”——Ex-Israeli Intelligence officer Victor Ostrovsky, describing in his book By Way of Deception how the Mossadknew of the impending attack upon the American Marine base in Beirut and refused to warn them about it.——————————————————————————————————————————————“The individual is handicapped by coming face to face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists.”—J. Edgar Hoover, Director of the FBI