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By Way of Deception

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256 BY WAY OF DECEPTIONfits <strong>of</strong> this operation, the Mossad at the time had a serious cashflowproblem, as did the state <strong>of</strong> Israel, and they were alwayssearching for new sources <strong>of</strong> revenue.* * *To prepare for this giant sting operation, a neviot team was sent toHamburg in May 1981 to begin setting up a secure dock andwarehouse. A katsa from the London station was sent in to startsetting up the sting.About the same time, a team from Metsada was assigned to NaimKhader in Brussels to make sure he did not get serious peacenegotiations under way. He was to be taken out. How theyplanned the hit can only be speculated upon, but it was done in afashion that was the signature <strong>of</strong> the Mossad: simple, quick, andtotal; on the street in broad daylight; the more witnesses thebetter; all that's left as a calling card are some unmarked shellcasings and the body.The assassin would have used a pistol containing nine bullets,with only six for the hit. From the time the hit was dead to thetime the killer got in the car, anybody who tried to stop him wouldhave joined the man on the ground.It was set up so that Abu Nidal <strong>of</strong> the B.10 would be blamed forthe hit, not only by outsiders but by Arafat and the Israeli foreign<strong>of</strong>fice, as well. Sure enough, not long after Khader's assassination,stories naming Nidal as the world's most dangerous, and wanted,terrorist appeared in the media.In Hamburg, the five-man neviot team was headed by Mousa M., arelatively new Mossad man who had come from the Shaback andhad a history in Unit 504. They stayed in the exclusive AtlanticHotel Kempinksi, on Lake Alster in this, West Germany's secondlargestcity.The Mossad love Hamburg, first for the good working relationshipwith the local anti-terrorist police and intelligence, and then forthe infamous live sex shows and red-light districts where hookersdisplay their charms in the windows or even by walking naked onthe streets. Of course, that was for the evenings. During the day,the team was busy in Hamburg's dockland on the south shore <strong>of</strong>the Elbe River

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