We know the Lavon Affair was a known failed Israeli covert operation conducted in Egypt in 1954. And we certainly know of other examples throughout history, although some are hard to prove.
Well, looking at the 1994 London Israeli Embassy bombing blew my mind.
Months before the bombing of the Israeli embassy in London in 1994 MI5 received intelligence of a terrorist organisation asking about the building's "location and defences", it was revealed in the appeal court yesterday.
According to a hitherto undisclosed MI5 report, the organisation was not connected to Jawad Botmeh and Samar Alami, two Palestinian students convicted for conspiracy to cause explosions in 1996 and jailed for 20 years.
Once again, intel agency knows of an attack and just…allows it to happen.
But let's dig into the story more.
The story really begins with a guy named Reda Moghrabi. This is what we know about him from what he told the two students.
Reda Moghrabi
Born in the West Bank around 1950, and to parents who had abandoned their home on the coast during the 1948 flight of Palestinians from what became Israel, Moghrabi grew up in Nablus or Ramallah. Arrested by the Israelis for "resistance activities" in 1978 or 1979, he moved to Jordan where he taught at the Barqaa refugee camp.
In early June 1982, Moghrabi fought Israeli invasion forces on the Lebanese coast road south of Sidon. Falling out with both Yasser Arafat's PLO and Arafat's opponents in Damascus, he left Lebanon via Syria and Cyprus for Britain where – through refugee status or marriage to an Englishwoman – he went into business with Gulf contacts. In the mid-Eighties, he moved to Kuwait but then fled when Iraq invaded in 1990, returning to Britain to live in Birmingham.
Very relatable story to tell to these two Palestinian students. It gets even better.
Alami met Moghrabi for the first time in the spring of 1992, after they both attended a London lecture on the Middle East. Moghrabi began discussing "resistance problems" with Alami and Botmi in 1993, recalling his experience in Lebanon. "Moghrabi was coming across as someone informative, critical, interesting, and experienced," Alami was to recall. By March of 1994, they were talking about the techniques of bomb-making. Moghrabi seemed "knowledgeable". In June 1994, Moghrabi used Botmi's help in buying a second-hand Audi car – which was to seal Botmi's fate. A few days later, Alami and Moghrabi met for the last time.
"He had phoned me … saying he was leaving Britain and he might leave a few things for me," Alami recalled. "He said that he had been doing experiments, that he had products (sic) he no longer needed … and thought of giving them to me." Moghrabi gave Alami explosives, boot-to-boot from his car to hers in central London. "I wasn't sure how to react but somehow couldn't say no," she says. Just after midday on 26 July, 1994, the Audi car blew up outside the Israeli embassy in London. That night, another bomb exploded outside Balfour house in Finchley. Alami and Botmi were convicted of conspiracy – though not the actual bombing – in December.
Are you kidding me? This guy cozies up to these Palestinians, creates a fictional story of his life. Says hey, I know all about bomb making. And when the day arrives, he's like, I'm out of here I'm leaving the country, but here's a bomb to use. And poof. He has never been heard from again. Surely it ends there? No.
two members of the jury complained to Mr Justice Garland that a reporter in the court had tried to contact them during the trial proceedings. One of the jurors stated that the reporter "said words to the effect: `I've got a telephone number if you want it.'" The reporter – subsequently identified by The Independent as a journalist for Israeli radio, and who denied any attempt to "nobble" the jury – was interviewed by the police but allowed to remain in court during the trial.
LASTLY, the most mind-blowing part of it all
Gareth Peirce tried to obtain the film from the Israeli embassy security videotape camera that must have shown the bomber –
ONLY TO BE TOLD THAT THE SECURITY CAMERA WAS NOT WORKING ON THE DAY OF THE BOMBING.
Both the accused could prove that they were not at the scene of the bombing
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According to MI5 whistleblower Annie Machon:
>”… MI5’s official assessment of this attack, after reviewing all the evidence and all the intelligence, was that Mossad had attacked their own embassy in a controlled explosion. They did this for two reasons: first to gain enhanced security around Israeli interests in London, and secondly to shatter a fast-growing Palestinian support network in which Alami and Botmeh happened to be active. This was one of the cases we blew the whistle on. You would think that there would have been an immediate retrial, but the government managed to avoid this as it would have justified the whistleblowing, and two innocent people continue to languish in prison.”
[Source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_terrorist_incidents_in_London)
Actual conspiracy…Meh
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