Bashir Nafeh

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Bashir Nafeh (* Qalandiya, West Bank ; † November 9, 2005 in Amman , Jordan ) was the head of the Palestinian Military Intelligence Service in the West Bank.

biography

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Nafeh grew up in the Qalandiya refugee camp. He was brought in from the West Bank to later work as a Fatah activist during the first Intifada from 1987 to 1991. He returned to the Qalandiya camp at the time of the Oslo Treaty in 1993 and remained in Fatah Tanzim as a minor activist.

During the second Intifada in September 2000, he became an aide to Mohammed Dahlan , head of the Palestinian Security Agency (PSS) in the Gaza Strip . Nafeh's rise in Fatah was due to Yasser Arafat's fear of the PSS in the West Bank, led by his rival Jibril ar-Radschub . With Arafat's financial support, the Special Forces headed by Nafeh created a counterbalance to ar-Radschub's security forces. Nafeh used his relationship with Fatah Tanzim to recruit young volunteers. Ar-Radschub's position of power was thus increasingly weakened. Also at the beginning of the second Intifada, ar-Radschub's ally Abed Allun switched to Nafeh and Dahlan's side. After Israel's military intervention in August 2002, the headquarters of ar-Radschub in Ramallah were occupied, which Arafat immediately took advantage of to remove him. While the other eight security services were on the verge of collapse at the time, Nafeh's henchmen had the latest cars and telecommunications systems.

Under Arafat's successor Mahmoud Abbas , they were able to expand this dominant position within the security apparatus of the Palestinian Autonomous Territories to a thousand police forces. In addition, he deepened and intensified his contacts with Israel, the USA and Great Britain and also made himself indispensable in terms of foreign policy. The new Interior Minister Nasser Yousef tried to unite the many security services under one roof. But Nafeh fought against it by again undermining Yousef's position. His former patron Dahlan, now the Minister of Civil Affairs, also became a rival of Nafeh. Dahlan is the preferred candidate for Sharon and the United States as President of the Palestinian Territories.

attack

Nafeh died in a series of bombings on three luxury hotels in Amman by the group around the terrorist Abu Musab az-Zarqawi . This authorship for the attacks was already claimed and disseminated the following day on an Iraqi website. The "war on terror" was and still is the official main reason for the US invasion of Iraq in 2003 . The hotels belonging to the Grand Hyatt , Radisson SAS and Days Inn chains , in which the suicide bombers' explosives were detonated, are all US-owned. The security situation for Jordan is now considered destabilized.

Major General Bashir Nafeh was also killed in the attack at the Grand Hyatt Hotel, Colonel Abed Allun, now a high-ranking officer in the defense service and liaison officer to the international intelligence services. This hotel was known as a frequent meeting place for Nafeh's official meetings. Allun had moved his domicile to Jordan due to corruption allegations. This time, too, both participants in a meeting in the hotel lobby with Saudi and Jordanian intelligence officers to a. to discuss common security measures against the regional infiltration of al-Qaeda. The bomb exploded in the hotel lobby just twenty minutes later after the Jordanian and Saudi security experts left the hotel. According to another report in the Los Angeles Times, the CIA works even more closely with the Jordanian secret service GID than with the Mossad .

Recordings of the crime scenes of the Grand Hyatt and Radisson SAS hotels show large areas of building ceilings blown open and make the official allegation of suicide bombings questionable.

The Los Angeles Times , Amos N. Guiora, a former Israeli defense service official, confirmed a report in the Israeli daily Haaretz that shortly before the series of explosions Israeli hotel guests were evacuated, apparently due to a specific security threat "). Haaretz, on the other hand, denied his report a day later.

A few days later, Jordanian state television presented a Muslim woman named Sajida Mubarak Atrous al-Rishawi with a dummy explosive belt around her and a statement that her husband had planned, carried out and killed himself. On the other hand, she would have survived because her ignition system would have failed. The Jordanian police left it open where, when and how they could get hold of the woman. The Jordanian people welcomed the arrest and the confession and recognized this as a police success.

The Palestinian Authority declared three days of mourning and ordered flags to be displayed at half mast. With the assassinations of Nafeh and Allun, the way was cleared again to undo the fragmentation of nine competing security services ordered by Arafat and to successfully unite them.

References

  1. ↑ Michel Chossudovsky: “Did Israel have Prior Knowledge of the Amman 11/9 Terror Attacks?” GlobalResearch, November 13, 2005
  2. ↑ Ken Silverstein, "US partnership with Jordan was targeted," Los Angeles Times, Nov. 12, 2005
  3. ^ Fintan Dunne, "Jordan Hotels Blitz Was An Inside Job," breakfornews.com, November 14, 2005

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SURNAME Bashir, Nafeh
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Palitinian military, head of the Palestinian military intelligence
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Qalandiya, West Bank
DATE OF DEATH November 9, 2005
Place of death Amman , Jordan