When researching the real truth regarding Abu Ammar aka Yasser Arafat. I found both a front page interview in the Wall Street Journal, from Saturday, January 12, 2002. Entitled; "The Arafat I Knew" by Ion Mihai Pacepa, who was the former acting chief of Communist Romania’s espionage, and another 2004 FrontPage Magazine interview. His WSJ interviews as well as the information in "The Mitrokhin Archive" were to say the least, quite "informative"."The PLO and the "Palestinian Narrative" was dreamt up by the KGB, which had a penchant for ‘liberation’ organizations.”... like that of the National Liberation Army of Bolivia, created by the KGB in 1964 with help from Ernesto "Che" Guevara." Arafat was an Egyptian bourgeois turned into a devoted Marxist by KGB foreign intelligence and was the main KGB asset." according to Ion Mihai Pacepa.
The truth about Yasser ArafatMohammed Abdel Rahman Abdel Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa al-Husseini, popularly known as Yasser Arafat or by his kunya Abu Ammar was born in Cairo, Egypt on the 24 August 1929. His father was Abdel Raouf al-Qudwa al-Husseini, was from Gaza, his father's mother, Yasser's paternal grandmother, was Egyptian. His mother, Zahwa Abul Saud, was from a Jerusalem-based family. He was a member of the Al-Qudwa tribe of the al-Husseini clan to which the al-Qudwas belonged.
Arafat's biographer, the British historian Alan Hart, relayed the story that Arafat was heavily beaten by his father for going to the Jewish quarter in Cairo and attending religious services. When his faher asked Arafat why he would not stop going, he responded by saying; "I wanted to study Jewish mentality."
In 1944, Arafat enrolled in the University of King Fuad I and graduated in 1950. He later claimed to have sought a better understanding of Judaism and Zionism by engaging in discussions with Jews and reading publications by Theodor Herzl and other prominent Zionists.
During the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, Arafat left the University and sought to enter the British Mandated Area of Palestine to join Arab forces fighting against Israeli troops but instead of joining the ranks of the "Palestinian fedayeen", Arafat joined the Muslim Brotherhood, and fought with them, he later denied joining the Muslim Brotherhood organization.
In early 1949, as the war turned in favor of the Israeli forces. Arafat returned to Cairo to university where he studied civil engineering and served as president of the General Union of Palestinian Students (GUPS) from 1952 to 1956.
During the 1956 Suez War he was called to duty to fight with Egyptian forces but was not involved in the fighting. With the defeat of Egypt and the introduction of the UNEF -UN "Peace Keepers" into the Gaza Strip. Members of the "fedayeen" forces, which included Arafat was expelled.
Arafat originally attempted to obtain a visa to Canada and later Saudi Arabia, but was unsuccessful in both attempts. In 1957, when Kuwait was still a British protectorate, he applied for a visa based on his work in civil engineering and was approved.
As Arafat began to develop friendships with Palestinian refugees, some of whom like Abu Iyad he had met while attending Cairo University and Abu Jihad in Gaza, both of whom were official members of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood. Khalil al-Wazir ("Abu Jihad"), had arrived in 1959 Kuwait worked as a teacher and Salah Khalaf ("Abu Iyad") arrived in Kuwait in late 1960 became Arafat's top aides in Al Fatah.
Arafat and the others gradually founded the group that became known as Fatah. The exact date for the establishment of Fatah is unknown. In 1959, the group's existence was attested to in the pages of a Palestinian nationalist magazine, Filastununa Nida al-Hayat (Our Palestine, The Call of Life), which was written and edited by Abu Jihad
The full name Harakat al-Tahrir al-Watani al-Filastini which translates into "The Palestinian National Liberation Movement" or FaTaH the reverse acronym of the Arabic name and in early Islamic times to refer to "conquest." Fatah differed from other Palestinian political and guerrilla organizations in that it dedicated itself to the liberation of Palestine by an armed struggle carried out by Palestinians themselves.
The turning point for Arafat and the PLO was the battle of Karameh in Jordan. The events of the battle were covered in detail and Arafat's face appeared in the world press. The coverage brought Arafat fame and fortune as he came to be regarded as a national hero who dared to confront Israel. Yasser Arafat was elected chairman by the Palestinian National Council convened in Cairo on 3 February 1969.
The KGB and the PLO
"The KGB had trained him at its Balashikha special-operations school east of Moscow and in the mid-1960s decided to groom him as the future PLO leader"according to Ion Mihai Pacepa. The major turning point, that forever changed the conflict in the Middle East and opened the door to the KGB and Soviet Union / Russian control was the Egyptian-Czechoslovak Arms Agreement from September 1955, between the USSR and Egypt, under Gamal Abdel Nasser. The Arms Agreement, not only led to the supply of more than $83 million worth of modern Soviet weaponry to Egypt, through Czechoslovakia. It opened the way for thousands of Soviet technicians and instructors to land in Egypt and enter the Middle East. This Arms Agreement greatly impacted the Arab–Israeli conflict forever.
In the aftermath of the disasterous defeats, of 1956 and later in the 1967 Six-Day War. When a "Tiny David"-Israel, handed the "Goliath", two of the Soviet Union's Arab client states, Egypt and Syria, who had been armed with the latest word in modern Soviet weaponry, failed in their quest to defeat Israel and suffered a disasterous major military defeat.
Because of the post 1956 war backlash to Israels close cooperation with Washington and England during the Suez Crisis, and Israels unwillingness to side with the Soviet Union, The KGB felt it was time to identify Israel and Zionism as the "Colonial" "Imperialists" foothold in the heart of the Arab heartland. So with the resounding a devasting defeat of Soviet armaments in the hands of their Arab proxies.
As early as 1965, with the increased influence that the dependence on the purchase of weapons from the USSR by Egypt and Syria had brought them. The Soviet Union had formally proposed in the UN a resolution that would draw in more Arab countries by condemnating colonialism as racism.
According to Pacepa, the Kremlin had charged the KGB to repair their own severly damaged prestige, from the failures of their weaponry and that of their clients, "our Arab friends."
The head of Soviet foreign intelligence, Gen. Alexander Sakharovsky, was thereby sent to Bucharest According Yuri Andropov, former KGB chairman: “[T]he Islamic world was a waiting petri dish in which we could nurture a virulent strain of America-hatred, grown from the bacterium of Marxist-Leninist thought. Islamic anti-Semitism ran deep… We had only to keep repeating our themes — that the United States and Israel were ‘fascist, imperial-Zionist countries’ bankrolled by rich Jews.” Gen. Sakharovsky asked us in Romanian intelligence to help the KGB bringing Arafat and some of his fedayeen fighters secretly to the Soviet Union via Romania, in order for them to be indoctrinated and trained. During that same year, the Soviets maneuvered to have Arafat named chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organizaiton, with public help from Egypt's ruler, Gamal Abdel Nasser.When I first met Arafat, I was stunned by the ideological similarity between him and his KGB mentor. Arafat's broken record was that American "imperial Zionism" was the "rabid dog of the world," and there was only one way to deal with a rabid dog: "Kill it!" In the years when Gen. Sakharovsky was the chief Soviet intelligence adviser in Romania, he used to preach in his soft, melodious voice that "the bourgeoisie" was the "rabid dog of imperialism," adding that there was "just one way to deal with a rabid dog: Shoot it!"
Yasser Arafat met Vietnamese General Vo Nguyen Giap on a number of occasions, the first being in 1969 when Arafat first came to Vietnam to study guerrilla warfare tactics...So when Yasser Arafat met Vietnamese General Vo Nguyen Giap he asked him:
“You expelled the French and the Americans. How do we expel the Jews?” I tell them that the French went back to France and the Americans to America. But the Jews have nowhere to go. You will not expel them.’
The Soviets decided to introduce the "Zionism is Racism" resolution to the UN after the third major defeat of the Soviet supplied Egyptian and Syrian armies in their attempt to "eradicate the Jewish / Zionist State during the 1973 October War - The Yom Kippur War had failed.
All the new pro-Moslem countries, who had recently gained independence from colonial status, were more than eager to abide their "Masters" will and turned out overwhelmingly in favor of the November 1975, Resolution 3379 condemning Zionism as "a form of racism and racial discrimination".Arafat made a political career by pretending that he has not been involved in his own terrorist acts.
All we NEED to remember is WE in Israel signed a "Peace Agreement" on the White House lawn with Arafat in front of President Clinton. Yet, it was the American Intelligence community (NSA) who cynically FAILED to enlighten President Clinton and Israel ( the Ally) of the documentation of Yasser Arafat's deceit and under dealings.
Arafat and his deceit
In 1972, a Romanian intelligence adviser assigned to the PLO headquarters in Beirut reported that Arafat and his KGB handlers were preparing a PLO commando team headed by Arafat's top deputy, Abu Jihad, to take American diplomats hostage in Khartoum, Sudan, and demand the release of Sirhan Sirhan, the Palestinian assassin of Robert Kennedy."St-stop th-them!" Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu yelled in his nervous stutter, when I reported the news. He had turned as white as a sheet. Ceausescu had become deathly afraid that his name might be implicated in that awful crime.
It was already too late to stop the Abu Jihad commandos. After a couple of hours we learned they had seized the participants at a diplomatic reception organized by the Saudi Embassy in Khartoum and were asking for Sirhan's release. On March 2, 1973, after President Nixon refused the terrorists' demand, the PLO commandos executed three of their hostages: American Ambassador Cleo A. Noel Jr., his deputy, George Curtis Moore, and Belgian charge d'affaires Guy Eid.
In May 1973, during a private dinner with Ceausescu, Arafat excitedly bragged about his Khartoum operation. "Be careful," Ion Gheorghe Maurer, a Western-educated lawyer who had just retired as Romanian prime minister, told Arafat. "No matter how high up you are, you can still be convicted for killing and stealing."
"Who, me? I never had anything to do with that operation," Arafat said, winking mischievously.
In January 1978, Said Hammami the PLO representative in London, who had established contacts with British politicians and journalists, as well as building relations with Israeli peace activists. Began to promote co-existence between the Palestinians and Israelis, calling for a two-state solution to the Question of Palestine.Arafat was unhappy with Hammami and ordered Ali Hassan Salameh, (The infamous "Red Prince" of Black September whom the Mossad dubbed "Burner" and who had led the PLO commando team that took the Israeli athletes hostage at the Munich Olympic Games) to assassinate him in his office.
Soon after the assassination convincing pieces of evidence started to come to light allegedly showing that the crime was committed by the infamous terrorist Abu Nidal, who had recently broken with Arafat and built his own organization.
Salameh who was Arafat's liaison officer for Romania, told Col. Constantin Olcescu Ceausescu's adviser to Arafat: "That wasn't a Nidal operation. It was ours (Black September / PLO)"! Olcescu who was well familiar with Arafat's craftiness, was taken by surprise asked: "Why kill your own people?"
"Arafat wanted "Black September" to mount some spectacular operations against the PLO, making it look as if they had been organized by Palestinian extremist groups that accuse the chairman of becoming too conciliatory and moderate," Salameh explained. According to him, Arafat even asked the PLO Executive Committee to sentence Nidal to death for assassinating the PLO representative in London.
Ali Hassan Salameh,.Salameh was eventually killed by a car bomb planted by the Mossad in Beirut in January 1979.
James Welsh, a former intelligence analyst for the National Security Agency (NSA) which is responsible for global monitoring, collection, and processing of information and data for foreign and domestic intelligence and counterintelligence. Once told U.S. journalists that in March 1972 the NSA had secretly intercepted the radio communications between Yasser Arafat and Abu Jihad during the PLO operation against the Saudi embassy in Khartoum, including Arafat's order to kill Ambassador Noel. The conversation was allegedly recorded by Mike Hargreaves, an NSA officer stationed in Cyprus, and the transcripts were kept in a file code-named "Fedayeen."
Despite all this deceit the western powers "trusted" Arafat and his outward professed willingness to live in peace.
Sources:
Mr. Pacepa was the highest ranking intelligence officer ever to have defected from the former Soviet bloc. He is author of "Red Horizons" (1987), a memoir.
Vasili Mitrokhin was a former senior officer of the Soviet Foreign Intelligence service, who was later demoted to KGB archivist. At immense risk to his own life, he spent 12 years diligently copying secret KGB files that would not otherwise have become available to the public (the KGB foreign intelligence archives remain sealed from the public, despite the demise of the Soviet Union).
When Mitrokhin defected from the Russia in 1992, he brought the copied files with him to the UK. The declassified parts of the Mitrokhin archives were brought to the public eye in the writings of Cambridge professor Christopher Andrew, who co-wrote The Mitrokhin Archive (published in two volumes) together with the Soviet defector. Mitrokhin’s archives led, among other things, to the discovery of many KGB spies in the West and elsewhere.
The Mitrokhin archives ate located at the Churchill Archives Center at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom.
