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Strong evidence that Prime Minister Yitzak Rabin was slain on orders of
Shin-Beth - Israel's secretive Internal Security Service
By our Israeli Assassination Affairs Correspondent
ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER, Yitzak Rabin left King's of Israel Square in Tel
Aviv closely trailed by his two Shabak - secret service - bodyguards.
Seconds later shots rang out and Rabin slumped to the ground. Chaos
erupted and within minutes Rabin had been carried to his bombproof
Limousine and rushed to Ichilov Hospital. He died half an hour later,
the victim of Israel's first presidential assassination. The date was 4
November 1995. Paradoxically, Rabin had been attending a "peace rally"
just moments before he was shot.
Officially, Rabin's murder was a cut and dried affair. Right leaning
religious zealot, Yigal Amir, was caught in the act of killing Rabin. He
was arrested and later convicted. An amateur cameraman, Ronnie Kempler,
later released video footage he had taken from a nearby rooftop, showing
Amir shooting Rabin in the back. This film was broadcast around the
world, leaving little room for doubt that Amir was guilty.
Surprisingly, however, doubts did arise - and quickly. Just a week after
Rabin's death Professor Michael Hersiger, a historian at Tel Aviv
University told the press "in my opinion there was a conspiracy."
Hersiger went on to say he believed the conspiracy involved the Shabak,
Israel's General Security Services - responsible for internal security -
because of the odd connections Shabak had with Yigal Amir, the accused
killer. At that time, little was publicly known about Amir except that
he was deeply involved in "Eyal," a right-wing religious organisation
with a political agenda. Eyal vehemently opposed the peace process,
which was the centrepiece of the Rabin administration.
Then on 16 November 1995, territorial leader and later member of the
Knesset - Israel's Parliament - Benny Eilon, told a press conference
that Shabak "founded and funded" Eyal. He also later revealed in private
that he had been warned ahead of time by former Mossad senior officer,
Yitzhak Shamir, that "they" were planning to kill Rabin. Eilon didn't
say who "they" were but did add that Shamir knew of the conspiracy in
October 1995, two months before it happened. If that wasn't bad enough,
the next evening Israeli television broadcast a report revealing that
Avishai Raviv, the leader of "Eyal" was a long-term Shabak agent who
operated under the codename "Champagne." Raviv, it was later learned,
was an expert at promoting "fifth columnists."
This strange sequence of events led a few other Israeli's to begin
investigating. One of those was journalist Barry Chamish who
subsequently authored a book titled "Who Murdered Yitzhak Rabin?" In
this, Chamish tears apart the carefully orchestrated official version of
events revealing how clumsy the conspirators really were - and how
confident they must have been that they would not be caught. The facts
he manages to pull together are startling.
Numerous witnesses testified that as Amir shot at Rabin's unprotected
back, many policemen and bodyguards shouted out "they're blanks." The
sound of the gun going off was closer to a "party popper" than a pistol
firing, others reported. This led a great many people to believe the
shooting was a hoax rather than an assassination attempt. One witness,
Mirian Oren, told national TV ten minutes after the shooting that "Rabin
wasn't hurt. I saw him walk to the car."
Anyone looking at Ronnie Kempler's video film taken from a rooftop
across the street, can see for themselves the very odd behaviour of
Rabin's bodyguards. As Rabin leaves the peace rally and heads for his
car, he is closely shadowed by two Shabak bodyguards, stationed on each
side and slightly behind him. The one protecting Rabin's left flank,
without warning stops, turns away, and folds his hands across his
stomach. He then remains immobile as Rabin, unaware of this, continues
walking. This curious conduct opens a large gap on Rabin's left rear
side that allows Amir, who had remained stationery until that moment, to
dart around and behind Rabin and shoot him in the back. It is hard to
conclude that this sequence of events was anything other than planned.
At the very least, the bodyguard is guilty of gross incompetence and
failed to protect his "client" at the most critical moment of his life.
The film footage also shows that Amir got no closer than two or three
feet before firing the first shot. The second shot - heard but not seen
in the video footage - was even further away, according to a variety of
witnesses, including Amir. Rabin's jacket, shirt and undershirt were
later examined by Baruch Gladstein, a highly respected forensic expert
from Israel's Police Materials and Fibers Laboratory. Gladstein appeared
as an expert witness at Amir's trial and was emphatic when he stated
that of one of the two shots was fired from a distance no greater than
25cm. The other shot was fired from "point blank range" - in other
words, the barrel of the gun was pressed against Rabin when it was
fired. This evidence means that Amir did not fire the two bullets. So
what happened?
Immediately following the assassination attempt, Rabin was bundled into
his Limousine and the driver, Menachem Damti raced the 700 metres to
Ichilov Hospital. At least he would have raced had he not got lost.
Damti, a last minute replacement for Rabin's scheduled driver, was one
of the most experienced drivers in Shabak. He had almost 25 years
experience and knew the streets of Tel Aviv like the back of his hand.
Ordinarily, he would have covered the distance to the hospital in just
over one minute. This night, however, when the streets were virtually
traffic free, the trip took eight and a half minutes. Damti's
explanation that he got lost bears little weight in the minds of many
observers.
Of critical importance are the number of wounds sustained by Rabin, and
their location. The official position is that Rabin was shot twice, both
to the back. This conforms to the two shots fired by Amir and his known
position behind Rabin - facts that were upheld during Amir's own trial
and the government sponsored Shamgar Commission that investigated the
assassination. However, this does not tally with the evidence. When
Rabin arrived at the hospital, he had been undressed and was bleeding
from the chest, according to Yevgeny Furman, a patient present at
Ichilov Hospital. Yet, it is impossible for Amir to have shot Rabin
anywhere but the back.
More significant still, is the hand-written autopsy report prepared by
Mordecai Gutman, the surgeon who operated on Rabin. This records that
there were three wounds not two. Two of these were to the back and one
to the chest. The latter was described by Dr. Gutman as "bullet wound in
upper lung lobe of 2.5-3cm. Exit wound in direction of D5-6 with a
shattering of vertebrae." This was the fatal shot, according to the
doctor. Gutman's report single-handedly shreds the official cover story
to pieces.
During the first few hours after Rabin's assassination, there was no
doubt about the number of bullet wounds and location, moreover. For
example, the director of the Ichilov Hospital, Dr. Gabi Barabash,
announced to the media "The Prime Minister arrived at the hospital
without pulse or heartbeat. He was clinically dead. We succeeded in
reviving him and transfused 21 units of blood but the wounds were too
severe and he succumbed to them." A TV reporter asked him "What were the
wounds?" Dr. Barabash replied: "There was a wound to the spleen and a
gaping hole in the chest leading to the backbone�"
Health Minister Ephraim Sneh appeared on television an hour later, at
12.30a.m., to announce Rabin's death to the nation. Sneh said: "As a
result of incitement, Prime Minister Rabin died tonight� He took three
bullets, one in the chest, one in the stomach and one in the spine."
Both these statements were soon to be forgotten as Shabak hurriedly
sought to alter reality and pin the blame on self-confessed killer Yigal
Amir. Many now believe that Amir was either under duress or, otherwise,
temporarily mentally unbalanced to confess to Rabin's murder.
Of significance to this whole story is the forensic testimony of Baruch
Gladstein mentioned earlier. His examination of Rabin's clothes showed
no evidence of a chest shot at all. However, we now know that by the
time Rabin arrived at the hospital, his clothes had conveniently been
removed. Some investigators now believe that Rabin was shot in the car
during the eight and a half-minute journey to Ichilov Hospital? Weight
is added to this explanation when recalling that Rabin needed 21 units
of blood transfused, as explained by Ichilov's Dr. Barabash. Obviously,
the Prime Minister was bleeding profusely yet there was not one drop of
blood found in King's of Israel Square, where he had allegedly been
shot. Since the Limousine he had been driven in was not subjected to any
examination, forensic or otherwise, it is not possible to establish
whether blood was present there.
Yet, there are even more significant oddities. For example, two entirely
different Pathologists claim they removed the bullets from Rabin's body.
Dr. Hiss says he removed the bullets and put them in a safe. In stark
contrast, Dr. Kluger testified that he removed the bullets from Rabin.
Meanwhile, there are two different versions regarding who took
possession of the bullets after they had been removed from the corpse.
Dr. Hiss told the court at Amir's trial that "A policeman took the
bullets I removed from Rabin and transferred them to the police
laboratory the next day." Asked to identify the policeman, the
Pathologist couldn't: "I don't know his name and I don't recall what he
looked like." However, Yoram Rubin, one of Rabin's bodyguards, testified
that the bullets and Rabin's clothes were "taken by Yuval Schwartz, a
friend of mine from work." In other words, Shabak took possession of the
bullets not the police.
This conflicting testimony should have caused some difficulty for Police
ballistic expert Bernard Schechter, who testified that the bullets
matched Amir's gun. The only problem is that there is clearly no chain
of evidence regarding the bullets and, therefore, no way of knowing that
the ones Schechter tested were the ones used. There were even two
different calibre bullets involved, according to one intriguing account.
A Tel Aviv taxi driver submitted a report to the Supreme Court of Israel
in early June 1996. In this, the cabby stated on 27 March 1996, when the
verdict in Amir's trial was announced over his car radio, he was
carrying a passenger. On hearing the verdict, the passenger said that
Amir didn't kill Rabin. The cab driver asked him what he meant and got
the reply that Rabin was shot three times and that one of those was with
a different calibre bullet to the other two. The cab driver argued,
saying these facts weren't published anywhere and that he didn't believe
him. The passenger produced an identity card showing he was a
pathologist and said he had examined Rabin's body the night he was
murdered. He added that the government wasn't telling the whole story.
The tax driver's report was never published.
The JFK similarity
Similarities between President Kennedy's assassination and that of
Yitzak Rabin are marked. For example, Lee Harvey Oswald, now known to be
an intelligence officer, flew to Russia and was stationed in Minsk. He
returned, became an activist in a CIA front - The Fair Play for Cuba
Committee - and is then convicted for having shot Kennedy. Yigal Amir
was sent to Riga in the Soviet Union by an intelligence branch of the
Prime Ministers Office. When he returned he became an activist for the
Shabak front, Eyal, before being convicted for shooting Rabin. Oswald
was close to CIA operative, Guy Bannister, whereas Amir was close to
Shabak agent Avishai Raviv. Oswald appeared on television favouring Cuba
and communism, a controversial position that made him recognisable as an
eccentric. Amir was caught on television objecting at a peace rally and
was dragged away kicking and screaming. Likewise there are remaining
questions about the bullets that are said to have killed Kennedy as
there are for those that are alleged to have killed Rabin.
Shabak's Contingency Plan
Shabak chief, Carmi Gillon explained that their failure to protect Rabin
that evening was because they had no "contingency plan" to protect the
head of state against a lone-gunman. However, two former commanding
officers of Shabak's "personal security unit" say otherwise. Tuvia
Livneh and Yisrael Shai say Rabin wouldn't have been murdered had they
been on duty that night. They claim there was a contingency plan and
that it had been practised endless times. This included dry runs at the
Kings of Israel Square. These exercises covered the possibility that an
assassin would attack from the sterile area located at the bottom of the
exit stairs behind the stage - the precise spot Amir struck from. The
two former bodyguards are amazed that Amir remained alive, as their
plans called for the assassin to be shot after he fired his gun. This
would avoid him getting off a second shot. This is standard practise
they claim, and point to the assassination attempts on Ronald Reagan and
Egypt's, Anwar Sadat, where bodyguards instantly shot the attackers.
The rear door of the Limousine
Just before Rabin is thrust into the bullet-proof Limousine for the trip
to Ichilov Hospital, video footage shows the rear offside door being
closed from the inside. Clearly, someone was already sitting in the back
of the car. This, however, conflicts with all the testimony given by
Rabin's bodyguards at Amir's trial and during the Shamgar Commission. In
their testimony, no third party is present, but the video footage says
otherwise. This has given rise to speculation that Rabin's actual killer
was already in the car and that following the blank shots fired by Amir,
Rabin was shot in the back, twice and then in the chest. This could
account for the closeness of the first shot and the "contact" shot that
Amir could not have fired. Since neither killed Rabin outright, one of
the others present used their own gun to finish him off. This would also
account for the two different calibre bullets mentioned by the
unidentified pathologist.
The Kempler Film: fact or fiction?
The Kempler film that effectively convicted Amir in the eyes of the
world was heavily and artfully tampered with. This could not have
happened accidentally. Importantly, the video footage blurs at critical
points making it impossible to follow the sequence of events. Ronnie
Kempler, when interviewed, was unable to adequately explain why this
was. Nor could he give an acceptable reason why he was permitted on the
rooftop opposite Rabin's exit route. The rooftop had police and security
personnel stationed on it to ensure Rabin wasn't sniped at, but they
simply ignored Kempler. Nor could Kempler explain why he released the
film after a delay of two months, when he could have sold it for
millions within a few days of the assassination. And why didn't he turn
it over to the police as evidence? Kempler also focused on Amir standing
alone before the shooting. Asked why he concentrated on the assassin to
be, Kempler replied "I felt there was something suspicious about him."
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Yitzak Rabin
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Visit the Rabin Assassination site of Barry Chamish for in-depth story
Shabak is also known as "Shin-Beth" after the initials of its name
The 700 metre car journey that lasted 8 1/2 minutes, but lasted forever
Who really controls Shabak, the Internal security branch of Israel?
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