Mossad also purging intelligence agents

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http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20041115-034117-6341r

Turmoil rocks politicized Mossad


<snip> "The CIA is not the only major intelligence agency rocked by resignations of senior veteran officials and charges of politicization. Disgruntled veteran spooks of Israel's famous Mossad intelligence service are now going public with their complaints too.

Israel's Channel 2 has run a documentary claiming that no less than 200 agents including seven department chiefs have resigned in recent months.

They were furious, the documentary claimed because the Mossad's current chief Meir Dagan, a long time close friend of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, was politicizing the agency and massively downgrading the Mossad's traditional low expertise in humint, human intelligence, gathering and its analysis in favor of the currently fashionable war against Islamic terrorism.

Dagan, according to the claims, has put the emphasis on carrying the war against terror to previously secure strongholds of Islamist militant organizations in Arab countries. The September assassination of a Hamas senior official in Damascus is believed to have been one of the first successful operations carried out under this policy." <end snip>

So this is Sharon's new policy......Let's go whack the hornet's nest and see if we can get the US to attack the hornets!

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1. some new faces will improve this problem...

Over years overly Arab looking agents have made inroads and now black and very americanized agents are pulling their weight too.Russian and former soviet Jews are paying dividends also the fact that Semite Arabs and their cousins Israeli Jews lookalike will always aid each side in conflict.

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2. Likes the wet work

There were no newspapers Monday in Israel because of the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, or Day of Atonement.
Yediot Ahronot, in its Sabbath supplement, looks into the controversial appointment of ex-General Meir Dagan, a close associate of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and an active Likud member, as head of the Mossad. The paper quotes several former Mossad people praising the man and the appointment, but runs two fairly critical parallel commentaries.
Veteran political commentator Nahum Barnea distinguishes between the old swashbuckling Sharon and the new more judicious prime minister and says: “Dagan is one of the old Sharon’s assets. They got to know each other 33 years ago when Sharon, then head of Southern Command, cleared Gaza of ‘terrorists.’ Dagan led a commando unit called ‘Rimon’ which was known, how shall I put it, for its unconventional methods.”

http://www.lebanonwire.com/0209/02091717DS.asp

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3. So Dagan wants to turn Mossad into a full time assassination squad

that's just great. I read the article you linked and found this part most chilling:

"..... was an excellent field operative with a license to kill, ­ a combination that would have fired the imaginations of writers and critics in the 1950s and 1960s. “There are people who have seen him in his armchair, under a collection of swords and narghiles, reading a philosopher like … Spinoza or a book on military doctrine; and there are those who have seen him sending men on deadly missions. One of his friends described him as a ‘guided missile,’ while another said he needed someone to restrain him, otherwise he might become dangerous.”

And the "moderate" Sharon is, I'm sure, just the person to restrain him.