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INDUSTRIALFAN:
my gionee M3 stays 3days straight without charge but u have to cut down on games and videos and can also charge other phones as its a power bank phone and is very slim..... don't believe me? ask M3 users....

Remove the second SIM card and see the battery life drastically extended to 3+days.

Two SIM cards in a phone sucks battery like vampires.

May 4th...

Is he in any way related to Islam

He might be from the peaceful branch of Islam, who knows?

There was a country!!!

Now, this is super-duper scary!
Who's gonna join the NPF on hearing this

Idrismusty97:
Sharrapp and go continued your protest . The zoo must fall! [img]http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQhHXOMyv1g4kjavHJm31n67HnHfnHWbMQQYwuC57yBlWydFETLZ8iZ0zA[/img]

Educated illiterate.
Go and chop ewedu.

EUROBOMBER:
[size=16pt]Thank God for Buhari, all we are saying is that after Buhari it is our turn ooooo![/size]

Your opinion does not reflect that of Biafrans, keep it to yourself.



Nigeria is not working!

Biafrans does not want a president in a modern day deficient Nigeria!

We want our dear Biafra!
The zoo must fall!!!

La sick la head!

This is no more online jamboree, Arase or whatever can now kiss his stinking ass!

gunners160:
Honestly I am just so sick and tired of this nuisance ideology called Biafara.Must everything be related to Biafara?And besides who want war in this contemporary world were countries are clamoring for peace. EVEN Ojukwu in his grave regreted starting such nuisance ideology,and would never want war again.If you are tired of Nigeria,honourablly,get a passport and get out!dont nurse an ideology that will cause more harm than good.Human lives cant be brought!!

Who give a fucck about your rants

Too long joor

Isn't that a Toyota 4runner?


RIP to the dead.

Carlmax:
Please I don't mean to derail but I seriously need advice for those that have used or played with both phones, is this phone better than the infinix hot 2? Especially in terms of built quality, cos I want to get one for my Lil sister, she is in ss3, and I don't plan on replacing soon.

Build quality===Gionee m3mini
Ruggedness and durability ===Gionee m3mini.

She will love the shining strips of metallic clad that rounds the M3mini

It seems like Glo network entirely is a battery sucker...
My assertion is on:-
Before I bought this phone I was having up to 500MB on my MTN, then after exhausting the Megabytes, I bought a Glo SIM card, tweaked my phone. Before then I was browsing with it on my old Blackberry when this BB started to over heat like a radiator, I was muzzled and quickly removed the SIM inserted into my Gionee m3mini, since then my battery has been performing close to average as against when I was using MTN.

Another bug I noticed on this phone is when checking your airtime balance or recharging, but you won't be able to view it except you redial the code.

Idrismusty97:
Lol you wish. Where i come from your properties aren't even needed, They would burned to ashes . You can't claim to hate us and reap from our lands, who cares about international laws.

Yeah, the Jihadist we're talking about.

(1) Biafran agitation has nothing to do with
hydrocarbon crude oil deposits in Niger Delta. Imo,
Abia, Anambra are currently oil producing states in
Nigeria, with huge natural gas reserves not forgetting
the enormous untapped coal deposits in Enugu.
(2) Biafra is not land-locked. It has numerous access to
the sea, including through the River Niger.
(3) Biafra entire population is more than 35 million people
which is greater than the population of many advanced
countries in Western Europe, including Switzerland,
Luxembourg, Belgium, Holland, Austria....etc
(4) Biafra does not or in any form signify war,
violence, armed struggle or any sort of physical
confrontation. BIAFRA IS NOT WAR! It simply
means political, economic and socio-cultural freedom
from a feudalist State ruled by terrorists and Jihadists.
(5) Biafra is not a call for massive exodus to Igbo
land. Put differently, every Igbo or Biafran must not
live in Biafra land. Those who wish could still
maintain their residency wherever they are as well as
own properties anywhere in the world, including Lagos,
Abuja, Kaduna, Kano…etc.
(6) Independent and sovereign Biafra will never
translate to loss or forfeiture of landed properties of her
citizens in Lagos, Abuja or anywhere in Nigeria. There
are many domestic and international treaties,
conventions and laws that protects Assets of non-
citizens everywhere in the World, that will apply
appropriately.
(7) The NEW BIAFRA shall be a coalition of desirous
and willing ethnic nationalities in defunct Eastern
Nigeria and would never be a forceful annexation of
any unwilling ethnic nationality within its current geo-
political definition. Ijaws, Ogonis, Ibibio, Anangs,
Efiks, Ogojas, and host of other ethnic minorities shall
possess the privilege to decide whether to tango
politically with their Igbo brethren or go their own
separate ways or remain part of current structural
deficient Nigeria
[8] Biafra is a train of peace and liberty. A desire for
liberation from institutionalised stumbling blocks like
quota system and federal character principles in
Nigeria's quasi-unitary society. It is a movement
against internal colonialism, tribal gang-ups, economic
marginalisation and political subjugation of Igbo and
ethnic minority neighbors.
(9) It has nothing to do with hate, bigotry or ethnic
chauvinism.
Just a desire to live in a healthy society where your
tribe, tongue, religion or creed does not define who you
are or how far you would go in your career.

Giving her a marriage proposal when she's on her late 30s isn't considered Engagement.... But a rescue.



Under ages, please keep off!

HopeAtHand:
Wow..im impressed..
Thumbs up,op.

Lol, thanks man.

Cc:HopeAtHand

1...The Mujahideen


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In 1978, Afghanistan became mired in civil war as two
Communist parties seized control of the country. When
it began to look like anti-Communist rebels were
gaining a foothold, the Soviet Union invaded the
country to lend support. And that’s when the US, of
course, decided to get involved.
The CIA set up camps to train the rebels , known as
Mujahideen, in the necessary tactics for beating back the
Soviets. Advanced weaponry was also part of the deal,
including—importantly—Stinger surface-to-air anti-
aircraft missiles. Soviet airstrikes had driven hundreds of
guerrillas out of the cities and into the surrounding
hills, and mitigating the effectiveness of those strikes
proved to be essential in prolonging the conflict, placing
a great strain on Soviet resources.
The Soviet Union occupied Afghanistan almost until its
collapse in the early 1990s, but the legacy of the
Mujahideen lives on. The CIA are finding their own
tactics and training turned against them by Mujahideen
veterans who have begun their own training programs,
producing highly trained and skilled terrorists who now
make up the backbone of Al-Qaeda and other radical
groups. The US discovered these ramifications the hard
way after invading Afghanistan in 2001. The invasion
led to a quagmire of an occupation, which—as of this
writing—has dragged on for just as long as that of the
Soviets.

http://listverse.com/2013/05/25/10-dirty-secret-cia-operations/

3....Phoenix Program



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Phoenix was a program headed by the CIA, in
conjunction with US Special Forces and Australian and
South Vietnamese commandos, during the Vietnam
War. Its purpose was simple: assassination. And
although this was a military unit, their targets
weren’t military, but civilian.
From 1965 to 1972, Phoenix was involved in the
kidnapping, torture, and murder of thousands upon
thousands of citizens. People deemed critical to the
infrastructure of the Viet Cong, or thought to have
knowledge of VC activities, were rounded up and taken
to regional interrogation centers, were they were
subjected to: “rape, gang rape, rape using eels, snakes,
or hard objects, and rape followed by murder; electric
shock . . . rendered by attaching wires to the genitals or
other sensitive parts of the body, like the tongue; the
‘water treatment’; the ‘airplane’ in which the
prisoner’s arms were tied behind the back, and the
rope looped over a hook on the ceiling, suspending the
prisoner in midair, after which he or she was beaten;
beatings with rubber hoses and whips; the use of police
dogs to maul prisoners…”
Phoenix was the subject of 1971 Congressional hearings
on abuse. Former members described it as a “sterile
depersonalized murder program”, and it was phased
out after negative publicity, though the replacement
program F-6 was quietly phased in to take its place.


2...Operation Ajax


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The success of Operation Ajax paved the way for all
future CIA operations of a similar nature. It resulted in
the return to power of the Shah in 1953, after a
military coup planned by American and British
intelligence.
The first democratically-elected leader of Iran, Prime
Minister Mohammed Mossadegh, was seen as a
potential liability because of his plans to nationalize the
oil industry. Fearful of having to compete with the
Soviet Union for Iranian oil, the decision was made to
install a leader who was partial to US interests. You
can probably see a theme developing here.
CIA agents Donald Wilber and Kermit Roosevelt Jr.
(the grandson of Theodore Roosevelt) carried out the
campaign by bribing everybody who could be bribed in
Iran: government officials, business leaders, and even
street criminals. These recruits were asked to support the
Shah, in various ways, and to oppose Mossadegh.
It worked: an uprising was instigated, Mosaddegh was
jailed, and pro-Western Iranian Army General Fazlollah
Zahedi was installed in his place. Zahedi had been
arrested by the British during World War Two for
attempting to establish a Nazi government, and he lived
up to that legacy by appointing Bahram Shahrokh—a
protege of Joseph Goebbels—as his director of
propaganda.

5....Operation Mockingbird


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Operation Mockingbird was a bit of a two-pronged
approach to dealing with the media: on the one hand,
journalists were routinely employed by the CIA to
develop intelligence and gather information, or to report
on certain events in a way that portrayed the US
favorably. On the other, there were actual plants within
the media—paid off with bribes or even directly
employed by the CIA—to feed propaganda to the
American public.
Mostly, this program was meant to convince the public
of how incredibly scary Communism was, and to make
sure that public opinion favored taking out the Red
Menace at any expense. Even scarier was the fact that
having major newspaper publishers and the heads of TV
stations bought and paid for meant that significant
overseas events could be excluded from coverage in the
media—events like the aforementioned coup in
Guatemala, which didn’t see the light of the day in
the American press at the time.
Congressional hearings in 1976 (the “Church
Committee”) revealed that the CIA had been bribing
journalists and editors for years. Following the Church
hearings, newly minted CIA director and future
President George H.W. Bush announced: “Effective
immediately, the CIA will not enter into any paid or
contract relationship with any full-time or part-time
news correspondent accredited by any U.S. news
service, newspaper, periodical, radio or television
network or station.” Yet he added that the CIA would
continue to welcome unpaid, voluntary support of said
journalists.


4....Operation CHAOS


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Protests against US involvement in Vietnam were
proving to be a giant pain in the backside for the
government’s plans in the mid 1960s. While
Mockingbird was busily using the mainstream to try to
shove the necessity of the war down the throat of the
public, the “counter-culture” couldn’t be controlled
so easily. Ever-mindful of the KGB’s propensity for
their own style of dirty tricks, the CIA attempted to
weed out any foreign influence on the American anti-
war movement by launching Operation CHAOS—and
they didn’t even bother to come up with an
innocuous-sounding code name.
Since the FBI’s COINTELPRO program of domestic
surveillance wasn’t quite producing the desired results,
President Lyndon B. Johnson authorized the CIA to
undertake its own program of spying on US citizens.
Their main task was to infiltrate student organizations
—both radical and otherwise—in order to gather
intelligence on potential foreign influences, and to
subvert such groups from within. Famous groups such
as “Students For a Democratic Society” and the Black
Panthers were targeted; eventually, the program for
some reason expanded to include women’s liberation
and certain Jewish groups.
There is strong evidence that this type of activity has
never ceased, though CHAOS itself was shuttered after
the Watergate scandal. In 2011, the Agency came under
fire for allegedly working with the New York Police
Department to conduct surveillance of Muslim groups
in the area, who had not done anything wrong and
who are now suing in Federal court .

6....Muammar al-Qaddafi


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February 2011 saw the beginning of the Libyan
Revolution, which would culminate in the August
ousting of Libyan dictator Muammar el-Qaddafi,
followed by his capture and killing in October. There
was little mention at the time of any potential
involvement by foreign interests—but about one year
later, an incident occurred which shed a curious light
on the entire Revolution.
On September 11, 2012, an American diplomatic
mission in Benghazi came under attack by armed
militants. The response came not from within the
mission itself, but from half a dozen CIA agents
deployed from a hidden base within the city. More
reinforcements arrived from Tripoli, and diplomatic
personnel where whisked by convoy to chartered aircraft
which carried them out of the country.
This betrayed a CIA presence in the city , which had
hitherto been unknown. The Agency was forced to
admit that it had maintained a fairly strong presence in
Libya since about February 2011—right around the
time the Libyan Revolution began. The annex which
had housed the secret base was scrubbed clean and
abandoned after the incident at the mission.

8....CIA-Produced Pornography


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President Sukarno ruled Indonesia from 1959 until
1966, when he was deposed by Suharto, one of his
generals. Sukarno had been deemed pro-Communist by
the CIA, which meant there would inevitably be an
attempt to oust him or at least make him look bad—
but the plot they actually came up with was truly
laughable.
The CIA produced a Indecency film starring a Sukarno
look-alike, titled “Happy Days”, for distribution in
Indonesia. Not that the culture generally frowns upon
such things, but as the CIA understood it, “being
tricked, deceived, or otherwise outsmarted by one of the
creatures God has provided for man’s pleasure cannot
be condoned” in Indonesian culture, and “what we
were saying was that a woman had gotten the better of
Sukarno.” The film went as far as production, and
stills were made, but for some reason (perhaps
common-sense) it was never deployed.
Bizarrely enough, this idea resurfaced shortly before the
Second Gulf War, when the CIA suggested that a fake
gay Indecency featuring Saddam Hussein or Osama Bin
Laden be produced in order to discredit these men in the
eyes of their followers. This went nowhere—at least
one official claiming that nobody would care. “Trying
to mount such a campaign would show a total
misunderstanding of the target. We always mistake our
own taboos as universal when, in fact, they are just
our taboos.”


7....Pakistani Vaccine/DNA
Collecting Drive


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The May 2011 raid that killed Osama Bin Laden was
the result of an insane amount of intelligence collecting
and planning; regardless of his crimes, conducting a
US military operation to kill a foreign national on
Pakistani soil was bound to have myriad consequences.
A courier had been tracked to an Abbottabad
compound, where it was pretty damn certain Bin Laden
was hiding. But before conducting the raid, they had to
be absolutely sure—and one method of collecting this
proof was shady in the extreme.
The CIA recruited a respected Pakistani doctor to
organize a fake vaccination drive in the town, and in
the process collected thousands of blood samples from
children in the area children—among them, as it turned
out, Bin Laden’s children. Since theirs was a fairly
upscale section of town, the campaign began in a
poorer area to make it look more authentic, then moved
on to the neighborhood housing the Bin Laden
compound a month later—without even following up
with the required second or third doses in the poor area.
The whole thing worked—with consequences.
For one thing, Dr. Shakil Afridi—the doctor involved—
has been convicted of treason by the Pakistani
government and given a thirty-three-year prison
sentence (“Wouldn’t any country detain people for
working for a foreign spy service?” one Iranian
official helpfully pointed out). For another, the
campaign has caused irreparable damage to
organizations that carry out legitimate vaccinations.
There are deep-seated suspicions in many Middle
Eastern regions about those who provide vaccinations,
and this gambit to assist in finding Bin Laden has
only bolstered those suspicions—particularly in Nigeria,
India and of course Pakistan, where efforts to eradicate
polio are ongoing.

We've always loved to discuss some of the shadier
dealings of the government and the military—and no
organization provides more fodder for these discussions
than the American Central Intelligence Agency.
The CIA has a way of very publicly blowing their cover
—seeming to pop up wherever turmoil, strife, and
political unrest materialize. Despite being almost
synonymous with dirty tricks, the Agency has
essentially been given free rein, permitted to use
whatever tactics they see fit to deal with any (real or
perceived) threat to American interests.
If there's one thing we know about absolute power,
it's that it corrupts absolutely; and if there's one
thing we know about the CIA, it's that the
astoundingly unethical and criminal projects highlighted
in this list are probably just the tip of the iceberg.



10.... Operation PBSUCCESS.

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PBSUCCESS was the code name for a CIA-backed coup
led against the democratically elected government of
Jacobo Arbenz, the President of Guatemala, in 1954.
It’s one of the first in a long line of suspected or
acknowledged CIA interventions in the governments of
foreign countries, and it was indeed a tremendous
success from the Agency’s point of view.—the first
indication that such a feat could be accomplished
relatively smoothly.
Elected in 1950, Arbenz set about instituting reforms
aimed at making his country self-sufficient, by giving
huge chunks of government land back to citizens. This
rubbed the US Government the wrong way, as much of
this land was “owned” by the United Fruit
Company, a truly evil corporation with which the
Eisenhower administration was snugly in bed at the
time (CIA director Allen Dulles and his brother John,
the Secretary of State, both had strong ties to the
company).
The Agency snidely referred to Arbenz policies in
internal memoranda as “an intensely nationalistic
program of progress colored by the touchy, anti-foreign
inferiority complex of the ‘Banana Republic.’ ” In
other words, non-dependence on the US and its allies
was not to be tolerated.
Four hundred and eighty CIA-trained mercenary
soldiers, led by exiled Guatemalan military officer
Colonel Carlos Castillo Armas, forcibly wrested
Guatemala from Arbenz’ control. While he and his
aides were able to flee the country, CIA documents show
that “the option of assassination was still being
considered” right up until the day he resigned on June
27, 1954.


9.....Operation Mongoose


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After the failed Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba, the
Agency’s public image was worse than ever. President
Kennedy famously proclaimed that he would “splinter
the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it to the
winds” (shortly before getting shot, but we digress).
But to deal with Cuba, he turned to the only person he
knew he could trust: his brother, Robert, who organized
Operation Mongoose . This operation was conducted by
the Department of Defense in conjunction with the
CIA, under Robert Kennedy’s supervision. He told his
team at its first briefing that deposing Castro was “the
top priority of the US government—all else is
secondary—no time, money, effort, or manpower is to
be spared.”
Among the dozens of extremely silly methods of
assassination proposed: infecting Castro’s scuba gear
with tuberculosis; planting exploding seashells at a
favorite diving site; slipping him a poisoned fountain
pen; and even even poisoning or slipping a bomb into
one of his cigars. Castro’s bodyguard asserted that
there were hundreds of CIA schemes on Castro’s life—
and they all ended in failure, a gigantic waste of time
and money. Castro was Cuba’s dictator for forty-nine
years, stepping down in 2008 due to failing health, and
appointing his younger brother as his replacement.

exotique1fy:
mehn! this people are evil! so you mean the Jews can actually go this far to get their enemies? na wa o! odikwa egu!

Of course, their are probably more brutal than the CIA.

HopeAtHand:
Nice read..nice one op.
Pls if u will, dig up the CIA.

I will sir.

2....Mehdi Ben-Barka


Once the tutor of Morocco’s King Hassan, Mehdi
Ben-Barka turned against the government in the 1950s,
becoming a prominent third-world political figure
known around the world as the founder of the
Moroccan Socialist Party. Though Ben-Barka lived in
exile in Geneva, King Hassan decided to eliminate him.
Hassan assigned the task to his interior minister
General Muhammad Oufkir, who was close friends with
Mossad director Meir Amit. Oufkir asked Amit for
assistance in the assassination. Amit agreed, hoping to
prevent a rift with Morocco that might endanger Jews
living in that country. Israel also wanted to cultivate
the distant, pro-Western Arab country as an ally and
source of intelligence.
Mossad’s role was to locate Ben-Barka and then set a
trap for him. They discovered that he had subscriptions
to a number of foreign magazines delivered to a kiosk in
Geneva. Occasionally, Ben-Barka went to pick up the
magazines personally. Mossad gave the Moroccans the
address.
But Morocco wanted more. Mossad was asked to
provide the Moroccan agents with a Paris safe house,
camouflage, makeup, and fake passports. Morocco also
wanted Mossad to follow the target.
But Ben-Barka had connections with Mossad and
admired Israel, which made Mossad and the Israeli
government reluctant to get so involved. They considered
stalling or even warning Ben-Barka about the
imminent attack. But the Moroccans moved ahead with
the operation and pressured Mossad into providing
security for Moroccan intelligence operative Ahmad
Dlimi in Paris.
Ben-Barka was lured to a cafe for a meeting with a
French journalist, which was actually a Moroccan trap
dreamed up by Mossad. Ben-Barka was intercepted by
mercenaries from French intelligence who had been
recruited by the Moroccans.
He was taken to an apartment and tortured for hours
until the Moroccans accidentally drowned him in a
bathtub. According to recent research by Israeli
journalists, Dlimi then called Mossad in a panic.
Mossad sent a team to help bury the body and sprinkle
the area with a chemical powder designed to react with
water and consume the remains. Heavy rain fell soon
afterward.


1....Khaled Mashal

Despite a new peace agreement between Israel and
Jordan at the time, members of the Kidon Unit of
Mossad arrived in Jordan in September 1997 to
assassinate Hamas leader Khaled Mashal. This was in
retaliation for a Hamas attack on a Jerusalem market in
July, where two suicide bombers killed 16 Israelis and
wounded 169 others. Newly elected Benjamin
Netanyahu wanted the operation to be covert, so a
Mossad scientist suggested the use of a new poison that
would kill on contact but remain undetectable in an
autopsy.
The Mossad agents posed as tourists in Amman, with
operatives Barry Beads and Sean Kendall carrying
forged Canadian passports. They planned to wait for
Mashal to arrive in his SUV and then poison him as he
walked toward his house in the Shamiah Center. The
agents intended to open a shaken can of Coke, distract
Mashal with the exploding cola, spray his neck with
the poison from an aerosol can, and then flee the
crowded scene in a getaway car.
However, as the assassins approached Mashal, his
daughter jumped out of the SUV. Immediately, both
Mashal and the SUV driver chased after her. The team
leader tried to signal Beads and Kendall to abort the
mission, but they didn’t see him. When they got close
to Mashal, Kendall opened the can of Coke, but
nothing came out. Beads tried to spray Mashal
anyway, but the driver saw the attack and hit Beads
with a newspaper. Beads only got a couple of drops of
poison on Mashal’s ear before Mashal ran away.
In more bungled getaway action, Beads and Kendall
were eventually arrested by Jordanian police. When the
truth came out, there was an immediate uproar over the
assassination attempt, causing massive embarrassment
for both the Israeli and Jordanian governments that
strained their relations. King Hussein threatened to jail
the Mossad agents unless Netanyahu coughed up the
antidote to the poison, which he did.
In the end, Israel was forced to release imprisoned
Hamas leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin in return for the
release of Beads and Kendall, who were delivered to the
Canadian embassy before returning to Israel. Even the
Canadians were angry because they didn’t appreciate
Mossad agents using forged Canadian passports.

Cc: Lasticlala
http://listverse.com/2015/11/06/10-controversial-mossad-operations/

4...Salameh Project

Five years after the Lillehammer disaster, Mossad once again decided to pursue Ali Hassan Salameh. However, the Israelis didn’t know that Salameh had become a CIA asset in the intervening years. The CIA hoped to use his status and connections in various PLO organizations to prevent attacks on Americans. Allegedly, this arrangement had many benefits for the Americans, including saving the life of Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. Salameh refused to take money for his services, insisting that he only wanted to promote better relations between the Americans and the Palestinians. But he did allow the CIA to pay for his expensive honeymoon with his Hungarian-Lebanese bride (and 1971 “Miss Universe”) Georgina Rizk. Mossad did ask the CIA about their relationship with Salameh. To allay Israel’s suspicions, the CIA staunchly denied having any relationship with the terrorist, so Mossad assumed they were good to go. In 1978, operative Erika Chambers was sent to Beirut to look for Salameh. She pretended to be an eccentric English spinster working at a charity that took care of Palestinian children. Soon, other Mossad agents located the terrorist and learned his routine. After marrying Rizk, Salameh had gotten into a pattern of regularly traveling between PLO headquarters, the home of his first wife and two children, and Rizk’s apartment. The Israelis rented a Volkswagen, loaded it with explosives, and parked it on one of Salameh’s usual travel routes. As Salameh’s Chevrolet passed the Volkswagen, the explosives were set off by radio transmitter. Nine people perished in the blast, along with Salameh and his bodyguards who were following in a Land Rover. One eyewitness described the scene: “It was like hell . There was a flash, then a big bang. It was incredible. I’d never seen anything like it before, not even in Beirut. It was as if the whole city was on fire. So many dead people, burned cars, and young bodies littering the street. Then I saw Hassan Salameh getting out of a car and falling on the ground. The people told me who he was.”

3....Beirut Bombing

In 1983, over 240 American servicemen were killed at the US Marine barracks in Beirut in a truck bomb attack by a radical Shia terrorist group. According to former Mossad case officer Victor Ostrovsky, Mossad had specific details from an informant that Hezbollah was loading a truck with explosives for the attack, but Mossad director Nahum Admoni deliberately withheld the information from American intelligence. The Israelis may have hoped that such an attack would irrevocably damage US-Arab relations. Supposedly, Admoni told his men: “We are not here to defend the Americans. They’re a big country. Just send them the normal information.” This referred to the regular Mossad messages of potential danger from Lebanon that were likely ignored. On the other hand, security at the base was extremely lax, and constant warnings with no attacks had made the US forces complacent. Ostrovsky’s account seemed to be credible because he had in-depth knowledge of Mossad personnel names, codes, and secure locations. Paradoxically, the Israeli government sparked more interest in his book By Way of Deception by trying to have it banned. However, questions remain about the true reasons for his departure from Mossad. Ostrovsky said that he was made a scapegoat in an intelligence failure that embarrassed the Israelis , but he may just be a resentful former employee. He also lost credibility for his lurid and unlikely claims, such as the Mossad training facility at Glilot hosting orgies involving female Israeli soldiers.