Final_Judgment

76 Off With His Head [15]
"There he relayed the information to the Secret Service and State
Department, receiving mixed reactions to Ostrovsky's reliability. An officer
of the Navy Department dismissed him simply as a "traitor to Israel." 10
AMERICANS KILLED BY ISRAELI INTRIGUE
Findley points out that in his controversial book, By Way of
Deception, the aforementioned Ostrovsky documented a Mossad action
which was "especially shocking to American readers." 11 In that instance,
241 U.S. Marines were murdered by a terrorist truck bomb that plowed into
the Marine barracks in Beirut in 1983.
Although Israeli agents learned that the attack was impending, the
Mossad headquarters in Tel Aviv ordered its agents to ignore the threat and
to not alert the American servicemen to the danger. "We are not there [in
Beirut] to protect Americans," the Mossad leaders explained. "They're a big
country. Send only the regular information." According to Ostrovsky, the
"regular information" was "like sending a weather report, unlikely to raise
any particular alarm." 12
"Is it conceivable," asks Findley, "that Israel's Mossad might
assassinate George Bush in order to put a more sympathetic man in the
White House? It is well to remember two earlier occasions when Israeli
authorities were willing to sacrifice American lives to serve their own
national interests." 13 Congressman Findley points out two other occasions
where Americans died or otherwise faced extinction at the hands of Israel:
On June 8, 1967, naval and air forces of Israel deliberately—and
without provocation—attacked the American spy ship, the U.S.S. Liberty
killing 34 American sailors and wounding 171 others. It was an attempt to
destroy the ship and its entire crew.
During the October 1973 war, Israeli pilots were ordered to shoot
down an unarmed U.S. reconnaissance plane that was overflying Israel's
secret nuclear bomb development site at Dimona. The plane, however, flew
too high for Israel's would-be assassins to reach.
Assessing the potential threat to President George Bush, Congressman
Findley concludes, "The U.S. Secret Service will be wise to assume the
worst." 14
Incredibly enough, at almost the same time Findley's provocative report
first appeared, several unusual events occurred that seemed to give credence
to the allegation that there might indeed be a plot afoot to eliminate George
Bush—if not physically, at least politically. Each of these threatening
incidents took place during President George Bush's January 1992 trip to the
Far East.
The most notable incident, of course, was the President's bizarre public
seizure while dining in the company of the Japanese premier. More than a
few people speculated—privately—that the president might indeed have been
poisoned. This, of course, is speculation, but it is based in reality.
Interestingly, it was while the president was on his Far Eastern junket
that The Washington Post—the daily newspaper of record in the nation's