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254 BY WAY OF DECEPTIONconcoct a scenario to convince them that the PLO was planningwar, not peace. The idea was to justify to the United States anIsraeli takeover <strong>of</strong> southern Lebanon.LAP produced photographs <strong>of</strong> all the armament depots <strong>of</strong> GeneralKhadra's PLA. Since they were a unit <strong>of</strong> the Syrian army, it washardly surprising that they had armaments depots for theirsupplies, but it served to provide convenient "evidence" that thePLA was preparing to attack Israel, even though the Mossad knewabout Arafat's frantic efforts to avoid a war.LAP also showed the CIA documents that had been captured fromthe PLO, showing actual attack plans <strong>of</strong> northern Israel. Again,this is neither unusual nor necessarily indicative <strong>of</strong> an impendingattack. In any military base, you could find such detailed plans.Whether the PLO intended to implement them, or whether theyhad even been approved, was a different matter. But the Mossadhad no intention <strong>of</strong> allowing such considerations to get in the way<strong>of</strong> their own mischievous plans.Even before hostilities began, news releases and photographs werebeing prepared. And afterward it would be easy to come up withdocumentation to authenticate the "threat" to Israel from thePalestinians.On instructions from Arafat, Abu Taan, head <strong>of</strong> his PASCcoordination unit, sent two men to Frankfurt to organize thesmall-arms deal. The man is charge was Major Juad AhmedHamid Aloony, a 1969 graduate <strong>of</strong> the military academy in Algiers,who'd had political training in China during 1978 and 1979, andgraduated from a military school in Hungary in 1980. He wasjoined by Sergeant Abd Alrahaman Ahmed Hassim Alsharif, a1979 graduate <strong>of</strong> Cuba's military academy, and <strong>of</strong> the same schoolAloony attended in Hungary.The Mossad and the federal German police were not on friendlyterms. But the GSG-9, who were Israeli-trained, were verycooperative, as were the Hamburg special anti-terrorist police unit,which the Mossad code-named Tuganim, or "French Fries."The Tuganim would provide Mossad people with identification,just as if they were working for them. The Mossad

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