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By Way of Deception

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266 BY WAY OF DECEPTIONup their phony missiles, the police were there waiting for them.About 20 men were arrested that day.Also on July 29, three men at the Vienna airport, with a partialload <strong>of</strong> the weapons from the suburban house, were arrested bylocal police who had been told by the Mossad that Hussein andhis helpers had just arrived on a flight from Lebanon and weresmuggling weapons into Vienna to hit a Jewish target. Husseinwas later deported. His two helpers were jailed. The bulk <strong>of</strong> theweapons, still at the house, were recovered by the Mossad. Theyleft some behind for the police to discover when they checked outthe story that Hussein had been stockpiling them.In total, the Mossad pocketed between $15 and $20 million andburned a lot <strong>of</strong> valuable ground. They had Khader killed, Husseinexpelled, his two helpers and about 20 Black Bloc terrorists jailed,and the PLO name blackened in a few countries.The success was wonderful for Mossad morale. Not only did thePLO lose everything, they still owed everything to their banker. Fora time, the sting kept Force 17 short <strong>of</strong> weapons, and it made thePLO feel really stupid. What happened to the raisins that wereshipped to Israel remains a mystery.* * *A further postscript to this story is the fate <strong>of</strong> Arafat'sdriver/bodyguard, Mossad agent Durak Kasim. He lost a leg in anIsraeli air attack on a Tunis Palestinian base. He had beenreporting from the camp, but wasn't told about the imminentattack. Furious, Kasim quit both jobs and moved to SouthAmerica.

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