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Mossad's Exploding Pager Attacks and 9/11

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  Mossad's Exploding Pager Attacks and 9/11  Ron Unz Audio Player For the last half-dozen years, Israeli-born  Ronan Bergman  has served as a reporter with the  New York Times , and I’ve regularly heard him described as the best-connected American journalist in Israel, with especially close ties to that country’s powerful security services such as the Mossad, Shin Bet, and Unit 8200. Much of that reputation goes back to the 2018 publication of his book  Rise and Kill First , a widely praised and highly authoritative history of the Mossad, Israel’s foreign intelligence service, as well as its sister agencies. As  I wrote  in early 2020: The author devoted six years of research to the project, which was based upon a thousand personal interviews and access to an enormous number of official documents previously unavailable. As suggested by the title, his primary focus was Israel’s long history of assassinations, and across his 750 pages and thousand-odd source references he recounts th