The car bombings in Beirut: I am not a technical expert (although I have provided free-lance expertise knowledge to restaurants on potato slicing) but I have been thinking about this as of late. I have no faith whatsoever in the UN committee investigating the Hariri assassination, especially after its head gave that interview to Le Figaro (see previous post on that). And there are other "truths" that I am after, to be candid with you. I don't spend sleepless nights wondering who killed Rafiq Hariri. But I was thinking about the case of Mohammad Boudia. (He was the head of Wadi` Haddad's unit in Western Europe, in which Carolos were later to work). Wadi` Haddad very much admired the Algerian Boudia, and never ever had any admiration for the braggart and mercenary that Carlos was, as contemporaries would tell you. But Boudia was killed with a mine under his car seat--detonating vertically--on rue Sainte- Anne in Paris in 1973 by the Mossad, in the same manner that Jihad Jibril (of PFLP-GC), Ghalib `Awwali (of Hizbullah), and Samir Qasir and George Hawi (this year) were all killed in Beirut. But you don't see anybody in the press making these connections. Why?
PS Contrary to lies later spread by Carols, Haddad never appointed Carlos as the successor to Boudia. The Lebanese Michel Mukarbil was appointed as successor, and he was later killed by Carlos himself in the famous shoot out in Paris.