Do you never begin because you fear the end?
Dream first sketched in “An Area of Darkness” ? Away with the frozen frown! We must be sunny and optimistic. Let us look at the positive side and list the great achievements that await us We Muslims have, regrettably, forgotten our true strength. Do we remember that we were the nation of Islam to defeat European colonialism? Dont let the CIA and Israeli Mossad to take over Malaysia The CIA provides the core inner ring which pumps blood into the heart of the current ruling class of our country. CIA is: Corrupt Incompetent Arrogant. There is only one reason China is ahead of Malaysia; because it is run by the CPC: Corrupt, Perverse but Competent.
Indeed, in every beginning is the end. At the start of life, when one is born, the only surety is that life will end one day. The rest is all shrouded in a mystery to be unfolded as life goes on. The fear of ending is experienced in so many, much smaller things as well. people like Mahathir smart enough to realise when an ending is near, and instead of waiting for and dreading it,
they find the strength within themselves to end a cycle, so that another may begin. Creative destruction leads to fresh, more promising beginnings. And so, if in the beginning lies the end, it is important to understand that in every end, there lies a better, more promising beginning. The end of childhood is the beginning of a promising adult life; ending of passion in a marriage can be the beginning of abiding love and care; the end of novelty in a friendship can lead to a new cycle of maturity, the end of one assignment means you move onto another with more value addition.
Palestinian resistance group leader Hamas, Khaled Meshaal, who was in Kuala Lumpur.Hamas leader advised both Najib and Anwar that if they were indeed serious about reconciliation, they should forget past wrongs .Meshaal was instrumental in negotiating peace talks between his party and Fatah, a faction of Yasser Arafat’s Palestinian Liberation Organisation which retains control of the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank. Anwar travels to Doha to meet Khaled Meshaal, the leader of the Palestinian Islamist movement, Hamas have something new to offer?
he senior PKR leader told The Malaysian Insider that he was contacted by a senior Umno official soon after Khaled left Kuala Lumpur.
“In my discussion with the senior Umno official, I told him that if Umno was serious in holding reconciliation talks, then all attacks against Anwar at the general assembly must stop,” said the PKR leader, referring to Najib’s attacks on Anwar during the Umno president’s policy speech.
“I received his assurance that there will be no more attacks against Anwar and they kept their word.”
The PKR official is confident that the reconciliation talks this time around will not fail, unlike the “unity government” talks between Umno and PAS during the administration of former prime minister Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi.
“During that time, the discussions were behind closed doors with both sides clamouring for positions in the Government.
“Anwar knows that PAS spiritual leader Datuk Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat will not accept secret discussions and that is why he has, on two occasions, called for a dialogue with Barisan Nasional.”
The last time Anwar offered the olive branch to Umno was on Thursday night, hours after Najib had accused Anwar of lying for saying that thousands of Bangladeshis were brought in to vote at the last polls.
After attacking Anwar, Najib had said, “This party will never tire of offering the hand of unity to any political party”.
The Malaysian Insider was told that Anwar’s offer to Umno for a dialogue session was issued after both PAS president Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang and DAP adviser Lim Kit Siang gave their approval.
The statement on the offer to Umno was issued by Anwar in his capacity as opposition leader and not as PKR de facto leader, said opposition sources.
Despite the moves towards national reconciliation, Umno ended its annual general assembly on Saturday with a call to investigate PAS leaders who they said practised Shia Islam in the country.
While Shia Islam is not banned in the country, religious officials have stressed that it was deviant and should not be preached in the country, which is predominantly Sunni. This is despite both branches of Islam are recognised officially under the Amman message ratified among others by Malaysian leaders in 2004
A six-member team had arrived in the Jordanian capital, Amman, a week before the date set for the assassination of the head of the Hamas political bureau who was living in exile.
The Israeli agents had entered through Jordan’s Queen Alia International airport from Amsterdam, Toronto and Paris using false Canadian passports.
Interviewed in the film, Meshaal says: “The Israeli threats started that summer. Israel had tried but failed to prevent Palestinian operations. So it escalated its threats especially against Hamas leaders abroad. With hindsight, those threats reveal what the Israelis were planning. But at the same time we felt relatively at ease since Israel had never carried out an operation in Jordan.”
Mossad’s move to assassinate Meshaal came in the wake of a series of suicide bombings Hamas carried out in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. The attacks had left over 20 Israelis dead and hundreds injured.
Israel was enraged and Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, called for an urgent meeting with his security services, including Mossad. He wanted a significant and telling strike against Hamas.
The objective was clear: retaliation.
At the same time there was a growing sense of mutual irritation at the heart of the Jordanian-Israeli relations. With this backdrop, Netanyahu gave the green light for the Mossad covert operation against Meshaal.
It was to involve a slow-acting but lethal poison that would gradually shut down the brain’s respiratory centre, leading to death. The plan was to spray the toxin into Meshaal’s ears, leaving no apparent trace of any weapon, and leading to death within 48 hours.
One of Meshaal’s bodyguards, Muhammad Abu Saif, had chased the two Mossad agents who had carried out the operation and, with the help of a passing Palestinian Liberation Army officer, later captured them.
The failed assassination proved to be one of the greatest fiascos in the history of special operations, and a pivotal moment in the rise of Hamas.
This two-part film features exclusive interviews with Meshaal himself as well as with Danny Yatom, the then head of the Mossad, who masterminded the attempt to kill the Hamas leader, and who later fled to Jordan with the antidote that saved Meshaal’s life.
the failed assassination attempt, including behind-the-scenes discussions during the diplomatic struggle involving Jordan, Israel and the US.
Retired Major-General Ali Shukri, who was the manager of the office of Jordan’s King Hussein back in 1997, played a key role in managing the crisis that ensued following the Israeli attack on Meshaal.
“King Hussein called President Clinton and informed him of what had happened. Clinton listened with astonishment. He couldn’t believe that could happen in Jordan. By the end of the conversation Clinton was angry and said: “That man is impossible!”, referring to Netanyahu.
“King Hussein informed Clinton of his demands – the antidote and the nature of the [toxins] used against Meshaal. He told him the peace treaty between Jordan and Israel would be over if Meshaal died.”
At the same time, Danny Yatom, then chief of the Mossad, immediately travelled to Amman to meet King Hussein, who was reportedly furious with Yatom.
The aim of Yatom’s trip: To contain the situation.
With tensions running high, King Hussein ordered his security forces to surround the Israeli embassy in Amman, where other members of the Mossad assassination squad were believed to be hiding.
Meanwhile doctors at the Hussein Medical City hospital were struggling to diagnose Meshaal, who already lay in a coma.
After expert consultation the doctors concluded that a large amount of an opiate-like drug had been administered to Meshaal. Tests showed it was a drug similar to morphine, which if administered in high doses, would have the effect of disabling the body’s respiratory system.
On September 27, Meshaal came out of the coma, appearing to return from the dead.
The media knew nothing of the secret negotiations between Jordan and Israel, or King Hussein’s demand for the antidote, until later.
The Israeli government and the secret service came under Israeli media fire for a double humiliation – of failing to kill the Hamas leader without being caught and of being forced to release the founder of Hamas from jail in a prisoner exchange deal.
Kill Him Silently is the story behind Mossad’s bungled bid to assassinate Meshaal and the part the operation played in the Palestinian group’s rise to power.
