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Africa analysis No 316: 19 February 1999
Mossad, CIA helped grab Kurdish leader
NAIROBI. Africa analysis can confirm that the Israeli secret intelligence
service. Xlossad, and, to a lesser extent, the US Central Intelligence
Agency (CIA) played a key ro1e in the capture in Nairobi and extradition to
Turkey of Abdullah Ocalan 'APO', the 49-year-old leader of the Kurdistan
Workers' Party (PKK), which is fighting for Kurdish self-rule in south-east
Turkey.
Both agencies have a heavy presence in Kenya- beefed up since last
year's bombing of the US embassy-and enjoy warm working relations with the
Kenyan security organs. In the eyes of ordinary Kenyans Israel's image was
boosted by its sensitive and professional rescue operation after the blast.
Sources close to the CIA have admitted to Africa Analysis that only
'a little bit of help' was offered, mainly in logistics, with 'no direct
involvement'. But Mossad is believed to have been highly involved in the
operation. Israeli agents are adept at kidnapping and such cloak-and-dagger
operations as the one that appears to have sealed Ocalan's fate. Israel's
links with Kenya run very deep and the Jewish state is not without influence
within the Kenyan government. Its key link there is the minister in charge
of east African co-operation, the colourful Nicholas Biwott.
The exact role of Kenya in the Ocalan saga is still shrouded in
mystery. Its foreign minister Dr Bonaya Godana has vehemently denied his
country's involvement. A livid Godana also demanded the immediate recall of
the Greek ambassador to Kenya, George Costalos, whom he accused of smuggling
Ocalan into Nairobi two weeks ago. But our sources indicate that Godana's
apparent anger was only a ruse to divert attention from Kenya's true part in
the affair. They insist rhat Mossad, working with Turkish authorities, had
exerted a lot of pressure on Kenya to extradite Ocalan to Turkey where he
may be tried for treason and executed.
There is even a suggestion that money was paid to senior Kenyan
officials to facilitate Ocalan's forced departure from
Nairobi. This may explain the ease with which the Kenyan government agreed
to deport Ocalan to Turkey to stand trial for terrorism. In the event,
Ocalan was forcibly removed from Costalos' official residence in Nairobi by
Kenyan security agents, blindfolded and later driven in a convoy of Kenyan
government cars to the Jomo Kenyatta international airport where he was
placed aboard a plane and flown to Turkey early on the morning of 16
February.
Kenya has now closed all its 36 embassies and consulates abroad as a
precaution against attacks by Kurdish protesters. The protesters had stormed
Kenya's missions in Bonn, Paris and Vienna on 16 February after it \vas
rs\.ealed that Ocalan had been deported from Kenya to Turks?:.
A sure beneficiary of the Ocalnn attair is the Turkish prime
minister and poet Biilent Ecerit \vhose minority party is now expected to
have an advantage in next month's general election. An emotional Ecevit told
a press conference immc-diately after Ocalan's aIri\ al in Turkey: 'We had
promised that the state would catch him. We have kept our promise.'
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