The Daring Attack That Blew Up in Israel's Face
By Alan Cowell
Oct. 15, 1997
Over many years, it has been an open secret in the Middle East that Israel and Jordan have quietly cooperated on a host of covert projects. And so, diplomats here say, King Hussein was not surprised on Sept. 25 when Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called to ask that he immediately meet Israel's chief spymaster.
Danni Yatom, the head of Israel's Mossad intelligence agency, was a frequent, if unheralded, visitor to Amman, according to the diplomats. The King assumed he would be discussing a new peace overture relating to Hamas, the radical Palestinian Islamic group, which had taken responsibility for two devastating suicide-bombings in Jerusalem over the summer.
Mr. Yatom had considerably grimmer news to convey, according to an account of his meeting provided by Israeli and Jordanian officials. Only three or four hours earlier, he told the King, an Israeli operation to assassinate Khaled Meshal, a Hamas political figure, had gone awry on the streets of Amman. Two Israeli agents posing as Canadian visitors were in a Jordanian jail and Mr. Yatom wanted the King's cooperation in getting them freed.
Read more at: https://www.nytimes.com/1997/10/15/world/the-daring-attack-that-blew-up-in-israel-s-face.html
Khaled Meshal, I never knew Bill Clinton was so pivotal in this whole matter from 1997 and the story tells one this.
Khaled Meshal really does look a bit like George Clooney.
I totally missed this story from the day. A failed assassination attempt, using chemicals, in fact, using FENTANYL of all things, agents imitated Canadian tourists and as one account goes, shook up a coke can as if they, the tourists, had an accident with the coke. This happened in Jordan. Meshal still lives.
Also, shades of how the step-brother of Kim Il Jong was killed a few years ago, throw a chemical on him.
CFR Profile:
Profile of Khaled Meshal (aka Khalid Meshaal, Khaleed Mash’al)
https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/profile-khaled-meshal-aka-khalid-meshaal-khaleed-mashal
