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Mideast Region Erupts Into All Out Warfare
http://www.spotlight.org/10_16_00/Warfare/warfare.html
A group of Palestinians who captured and killed two Israeli military hit men
is just the tip of the iceberg in a region spiraling out of control.
Exclusive to The SPOTLIGHT
By Martin Mann
Three of the four Israeli soldiers in civilian clothes and an unmarked car,
who were stopped by Palestinian police in the Arab city of Ramallah on Oct.
12, were put to death by an irate crowd which assumed them to be members of
an undercover Is raeli assassination unit. Known as Sayaret Matkal, the
killer squad has murdered do zens of suspected Islamic freedom fighters,
intellectuals and activists in recent years.
The other Israeli soldier has been reported "missing." "It's no wonder the
anger of the Arab street exploded," says veteran UN correspondent Jean-Luc
Bouchar don, who recently returned to New York after several weeks spent in
the Middle East. "To Pa lestinians, an en counter with an unmarked car
bearing four Israeli soldiers disguised as civilians means only one thing:
Sayeret Matkal, the hated military hit squad."
This special unit of the Israeli defense forces is almost unknown in the
United States; its existence has never been officially recognized.
But in Palestine, it is notorious for its lethal forays against suspected
Arab militants, Middle Eastern diplomatic sources at UN headquarters have
told The SPOTLIGHT.
The Hebrew word sayeret means reconnaissance or commando forces, matkal is a
designation suggesting that one contingent among these elite formations is
assigned to performing "special tasks" un der the command of the chief of
staff of Israel's army.
Those "special tasks" are assassination assignments, these sources have
confirmed.
They listed the noted Palestinian poet Ghassan Kanafani; Kamal Nasser, a
longtime spokesman for the Palestine Liber ation Organization; and Muham mad
Naj jar, a leading Arab activist, as among the best-known victims of Sayeret
Matkal "termination" teams.
"But these commando units were often sent out in teams of four, disguised as
a civilians, to hunt and kill lower-ranking Pa lestinian militants and
suspected freedom fighters in the streets," related Bouchardon. "They also do
hits for the Mossad [Israel's secret service]."
The operations officer in charge of Sayeret Matkal has been identified as
Israeli Major General Avraham Arnan by knowledgeable diplomatic sources, who
added that Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, a retired (and lavishly
decorated) general, himself served with a Sayeret Matkal unit as a young army
officer.
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