The Plot To Kill Hamas

From The Toronto Star:

How Canada got tangled in an Israeli assassination plan that reverberates in the Mideast still.

Kill Khalid: The Failed Mossad Assassination of Khalid Mishal and the Rise of Hamas is the unsurpassed story of how Israeli spies masquerading as Canadian tourists all but ignited a new Mideast war in the peace-seeking days of 1997.

The Israeli plan was to spray nerve gas into the ear of the then-middling Hamas operative, using a fake camera. This, they managed – but as the stricken Mishal took ill in the Jordanian capital of Amman, the "Canadians" were captured. And that is when all hell broke loose. Mishal was saved when diplomatic pressure forced the Israelis to provide his doctors with an antidote.

In the years since his near-death experience, Mishal has emerged as the overall leader of Hamas, and there is an even greater irony approaching in the weeks ahead – Mishal's arch-nemesis, Benjamin Netanyahu, is about to become Israel's leader once again.

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My Comment: A good review of an old case.