Dubai seeks '11 Europeans' for Hamas killing

[Jan Klimkowski]

Soon after the scandal broke in New Zealand, The Sydney Morning Herald reported Barkan, allegedly using a fraudulent Canadian passport, was possibly in North Korea.
The newspaper's source was quoted as a "New Zealand aid worker with intelligence connections in Asia".
The political strife and speculation deepened in early 2005 when it emerged Australia had secretly expelled a Canberra-based diplomat described as a "consul" in Israel.
Several weeks later, in February, the expulsion was revealed in an Israeli newspaper, Ma'ariv.
The newspaper speculated there might have been some connection with the New Zealand passport case.
One of the official duties of the Canberra diplomat was to visit the two Israelis in prison in New Zealand, to provide them with diplomatic services, the paper said. The pair had also spent considerable time in Australia, where there was speculation that they might have been on a similar mission.
In between times, Barkan did not go to ground. He was named by Cambodian media a year after disappearing from New Zealand as, along with accomplices, running a studio making snuff and porn movies in the Mekong River town of Pen Yauin in Cambodia.
In a professional studio, girls from New Zealand and Australia students and tourists were lured into thinking they were to become movie stars.
At first they made porn films in studios in Phnom Phen behind a local bar before branching out into films of hangings and executions of city vagrants, followed by suicide films.

According to Greg Hallett in his piece entitled "Whipping the Sleeper":

Their names are Zev William Barkan, Uriel Zoshe Kelman, Eli Cara, an Auckland University lecturer,and a Mossad agent living on Auckland's Waiheke Island called Yaron,a former Israeli tank commander who got stuck in the mud outside myplace while doing reconnaissance. The place has since burnt down.

Zev William Barkan ran a studio making snuff and porno movies on the Mekong River at Pen Yau in Cambodia. Here they were also arranging car accidents, and fiddling with death certificates and passports. Barkan (aka Zev Bruckstein) moved from simple snuff movies to filming the suicides of vagrants and Russian roulette.

Barkan was in New Zealand 320 March 2004 and travels as a Canadian under the name Kevin Hunter.The two Israeli agents caught were Uriel Kelman and Eli Cara. They pleaded guilty to the passport frauds, were charged NZ$50,000 each (to be paid to charity) and sentenced to six months in prison. Helen Clark bowed to pressure and let them out after ten weeks.

From Alexandra Valiente's Ephemeris website:

Zev Barkan

There continues to be some quips on the amateurishness of the 2004 affair, and comments that Mossad would not foul up so appallingly. However, the presence of Zev Barkan at the time indicates that New Zealand is an important element in Mossad operations. Barkan is still wanted by New Zealand police is connection with the 2004 affair. A Southland Times report, reprinted in the Dominion Post, states of Barkan that "last year he was named one of 32 people Dubai police suspected of having a role in the assassination of Hamas military leader Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in a hotel last January. Four fake Australian passports were used by the team responsible for the killing."[27] Ambassador Tzur is naturally dismissive of any suggestion of a Mossad connection with the Christchurch matter, which he calls as "science fiction." However he has also dismissed reports of Barkan's involvement in the Mahmoud assassination, despite his admission that he knew little about the matter.[28]

Shortly after the trial of Kelman and Cara, Barkan was reported by the Sydney Morning Herald as being in North Korea, using a fraudulent Canadian passport,[29] with the name Kevin Hunter.[30] The question might be asked: what was a Mossad operative doing in North Korea, one of the so-called "Axis of Evil." He was brought in as a "security consultant" to advise on building a "security wall",[31] presumably of the type built in Israel to corral Palestinians. This indicates something of the covert diplomacy with states that are barely suspected of having any relationship with Israel.

In 2005, Barkan was named in the Cambodian media as "running a studio making snuff and porn movies in the Mekong River town of Pen Yauin in Cambodia." In a professional studio, girls from New Zealand and Australia students and tourists were lured into thinking they were to become movie stars. At first they made porn in studios behind a bar in Phnom Phen, then branched out into films of hangings and killings of vagrants, and suicide films.[32]

Barkan seems to be the senior Mossad operative in this region. A Sydney Morning Herald report revealed:

The fugitive Israeli Mossad intelligence agent Zev Barkan has been dealing with Asian criminal gangs to obtain Australian and other passports stolen in Asia, a New Zealand aid worker has said.

Barkan has been named by New Zealand authorities as the kingpin in a passport scam for which two Israelis with Australian links were jailed for six months last week in Auckland.

Barkan fled New Zealand before police swooped. There are unconfirmed reports that Barkan, allegedly using a fraudulent Canadian passport, has since made visits to North Korea.

The New Zealand aid worker, who has intelligence connections in Asia, said Barkan was also connected to an Israeli security company operating out of Thailand.

"He goes to Laos, Cambodia, Burma and Thailand and deals with gangs who rob tourists of their valuables and passports," the aid worker said.

"Barkan is mostly interested in passports and there have been a number of Australian passports."

Intelligence analysts in New Zealand believe Barkan, a former navy diver in the Israeli Defense Force, was trying to secure a "clean" passport for use in a sensitive Israeli undercover operation in the region, less risky than a forged passport.

The Herald has also been told that Barkan had grown up in Washington as Zev Bruckenstein, where his father was director of religious studies at a synagogue.[33]

Several factors can be noted:

1. Barkan had a similar military background to those employed by Magnus international Search & Rescue (see below);

2. Barkan's association with an "Israeli security company" in Thailand;

3. His association with organized crime.

Seemingly legitimate companies are used as fronts for Mossad operations; in this case a "security company;" in the USA at the time of 9/11 there was Urban Moving Systems. It is reasonable for New Zealand's SIS and police to be suspicious of the search and rescue team led by an ex-Mossad agent and involving those with specialist military training similar to that of Barkan.

The association of Barkan, et al, with porn and snuff movies, and their luring of Australian and New Zealand girls into their quagmire is not atypical. Zionism and organized crime have historically worked at all levels, high and low, and Israel has provided a safe haven for Jewish gangsters under the "law of return." In 1945 Bugsy Siegel began providing funds and weapons to the Haganah in their fight against the British in Palestine, after a meeting between Siegel and Reuven Dafne, emissary of the embryonic Israeli army.[34] Doc Stacher, one of the Meyer Lansky syndicate, reached Israel in 1964, after having problems with the IRS. Meyer Lansky, a close friend of Zionist financier Samuel Rothberg, was only returned from Israel to the USA when Israel required Phantom jets, and they found it expedient to sacrifice an old friend, who nonetheless stayed out of jail. Moe Dalitz, an old time gangster from Cleveland received the Anti-Defamation League's "Torch of Freedom" award in 1985 for his large donations to Israel, garnered form his murderous criminal regime over the decades. Mo Sedgway, a Lansky colleague and leading figure in Las Vegas, also served as chairman of the Nevada United Jewish Appeal. Max Fisher, founder of the Republican Jewish Coalition, and an important presidential adviser on the Middle East since the time of Eisenhower, started as a bagman for the Purple Gang that smuggled Bronfman whiskey from Canada to the USA. Fisher became chairman of United Brands, a firm accused of major narcotics smuggling from South America. He headed sundry Zionist organizations such as the UJA, Council of Jewish Federations, and the American Jewish Committee.[35]

As for the Barkan association with pornography, and the enticement of girls into the racket, Israel itself is a center of this, the focus being on Eastern European girls who are lured to Israel with false promises, their passports taken, and kept in a state of drugged stupor.[36] A closer analogy to Barkan is that of Arie Scher, who operated child prostitution sessions whilst also serving as administration consul for the Israeli consulate in Rio de Janeiro, and at some time had served a consul general. Scher catered for Israeli tourists at his residence. When Brazilian police attempted to arrest him for "exploiting minors and prostituting them" he hid out at the consulate. He then escaped back to Israel via Argentina.[37] Once Scher had reached the safety of the criminal state, not only was nothing done, but five years later Israel aimed to have him serve as a diplomat in Australia, despite Brazilian police having asked Interpol to arrest Scher should he leave Israel.[38] A spokesman for the Israeli Foreign Ministry, Mark Regev, commented that Scher "was a young and single man at the time. Now he is married and he's six years older and there is no reason why he shouldn't make an excellent diplomatic appointment in Australia."[39] Ironically Scher was supposed to replace Amir Laty who, after just eighteen months, had been expelled from Australia for espionage activities, while his tendency to pester women was also regarded as inappropriate. It had been Laty who had gone to New Zealand in 2004 to visit Cara and Kelman in jail. Australian ABC Radio journalist Louise Yaxley reported: "That visit could have been part of Mr. Laty's consular duties but there are suggestions it was much more and that his links to a bungled operation in New Zealand are the real reason he had to get out of Australia."[40]

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[27] Jared Morgan, "Passport scam suspect still on the run," Dominion Post, July 20, 2011, A5.
[28] "Zev Barkan, an Israeli spy in NZ linked to Mossad's killing in Dubai," May 8, 2010, http://www.whatsonxiamen.com/news12040.html
[29] Jared Morgan, op. cit.
[30] Justin Raimondo, "Passport to terror," Antiwar,com, August 7, 2004, http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2004/...to-terror/
[31] Justin Raimondo, ibid.
[32] Jared Morgan, op. cit..
[33] Craig Skehan, "Mossad agent linked to Asia scam," Sydney Morning Herald, July 19, 2004, http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/07/1...38600.html
[34] "Jewish gangsters," Jewish Virtual Library, http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsou...sters.html
[35] "Max M Fisher, icon of American and World Jewry is honoured by United Jewish Communities and Jewish Federations of North America," The Jewish Federation of North America, September 19, 2002, http://www.jewishfederations.org/page.aspx?id=33114
[36] Aryeh Dayan, "Price of a Woman: Are police involved in Israel's growing traffic in women? Is the establishment turning a blind eye?," Ha'aretz, February 26, 2001.
[37] "Wanted Israeli diplomat flees Brazil," BBC News, July 5, 2000, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/821308.stm
[38] Jeff Hook, "The Jew who fled Rio: Pedophile Diplomat Arie Scher has resurfaced, Argentina Indymedia, February 17, 2005, http://argentina.indymedia.org/news/2005...hp?theme=1
[39] "What tha? of the week," Melbourne Independent Media Center, February 16, 2005, http://www.nogw.com/download/2006_scher_rio.pdf
[40] Louise Yaxley, "AM," ABC Local Radio, February 19, 2005, http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2005/s1306482.htm

[Magda Hassan]

Leaked details of Mossad assassin's fake Canadian passport under RCMP scrutiny

By Ian MacLeod, OTTAWA CITIZEN February 20, 2014

Mahmoud al-Mabhouh (Feb. 14, 1960-Jan. 19, 2010) was a senior Hamas military commander.

OTTAWA The RCMP is investigating a local Passport Canada intelligence officer who allegedly told her Iranian-Canadian lover that an Israeli assassin is living in Canada under a new identity secretly provided by the government, a senior government source said Tuesday.
In a fast-moving investigation with ties to Dubai, Venezuela, Israel, Montreal and now Ottawa, the Mounties are trying to determine whether national security was breached in a case that rivals a Hollywood script.
Passport Canada national security officer Trina Kennedy had been assigned to an RCMP-led Integrated National Security Enforcement Team (INSET) looking into the activities of Montreal businessman Arian Azarbar, said the source.
Instead, Kennedy began an affair in the spring of 2010 with Azarbar, 33, which lasted for about a year and a half, Azarbar said in an interview Tuesday with the Citizen.
During their romance, Kennedy is said to have confided to him that the federal government created a Canadian passport and new life here for a former member of Israel's Mossad security intelligence service involved in the January 2010 assassination in Dubai of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, a high-ranking member of the terrorist group Hamas.
"She was working on those cases when this whole Mossad thing was happening," Azarbar said. "People talk."
Mabhouh was a founder and senior commander of Hamas's paramilitary wing and believed to be the liaison between the Palestinian group and Iran for weapons-smuggling operations into Gaza. Israel has never admitted involvement in the killing.
Kennedy has been placed on leave while police investigate, with no access to government offices or computers, said the source.
"There are a lot of allegations that are being investigated at this point. But there is no credible evidence to suggest that it is true at this point."
Kennedy could not be reached for comment Tuesday.
Citizenship and Immigration Minister Chris Alexander, who is responsible for Passport Canada, called in police when the allegations surfaced, his office said Tuesday.
"He has asked officials to take swift and robust action to gather the facts and to ensure security and program integrity were not compromised in any way," ministerial spokesman Kevin Menard said in a statement.
Meanwhile, a Montreal police detective was reportedly reassigned in January after allegations surfaced that he, too, leaked information to Azarbar. The businessman is identified in Montreal police documents of being a possible Iranian spy, according to Montreal media reports.
Azarbar said Tuesday he has known the police officer for years, but said he had nothing to do with the officer's reassignment. He also categorically denied any involvement with his native Iran. He said he has lived in Montreal's West Island community since the age of five.
"I've been to Iran once in my whole life for two weeks," he said.
He said his troubles began when he received a government letter asking him to meet with federal agents.
There followed one or two initial meetings with Kennedy and a man he believes was from the Department of Foreign Affairs. He said they were most interested in learning about his business trips to Venezuela, where he sells housing construction products.
He said he also had spent time around Hugo Chavez, the country's fiery socialist leader who died last year.
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Leaked...story.html