Athens, where they searched for the perpetrator at all the customs
brokerages, hotels, and cafés. At last they discovered a female cus-
toms broker who was handling a cargo of raisins bound for Israel
that, unbeknownst to her, held the concealed explosives. Docu-
ments were seized, and through them the Mossad agents located the
storage depot where they hoped to find the “raisin bomb,” but noth-
ing was discovered. They did, however, reveal the man behind the
shipment, who was then followed and shot dead outside his apart-
ment building. BSO members concluded that the customs broker
had given details about their comrade’s activities to the Mossad,
and they killed her.
According to George Jonas’s book Vengeance, one of the teams as-
signed to assassinate Palestinian terrorists was headed by a former Is-
rael Defense Forces (IDF) officer, who was referred to in the book by
the pseudonym “Avner.” Avner’s team, which consisted of five mem-
bers, was granted autonomous authority and freedom of movement,
yielding significant success in assassinating a list of Palestinians tar-
geted by Committee-X. Yet, it is impossible to verify the existence of
“Avner” and his specific team. The teams of Kidon, as it is better
known today, were assigned to assassinate a list of targets:- Kamal Adwan, the chief of sabotage operations for the Fatah or-
ganization in the Occupied Territories - Hussein Abad Al-Chir, the Palestinian Liberation Organization
(PLO) contact man with the Soviet KGB in Cyprus - Mohammed Boudia, the BSO liaison with the European PLO
- Abu Daoud, a BSO member
- Dr. Wadi Haddad, a chief terrorist linked with Dr. George Habash
- Mahmoud Hamshari, a PLO member and coordinator of the
Munich massacre - Dr.Basil Raoud Kubaisi, an official of the Popular Front for the
Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) in charge of logistics - Kamal Nasser, the official PLO spokesman and a member of the
PLO Executive Committee - Ali Hassan Salameh, a developer and executor of the assault on
the Israeli athletes at Munich - Abu Yussef, a high-ranking PLO official
- Wael Zwaiter, a PLO organizer of terror in Europe and Yasser
Arafat’s cousin
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