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”And another thing, if you look at the Israeli press over the last three or four years, you will see that if there is a report that there are some negotiations, or one of the hostages might be released, or there are talks with Shi’ites, a meeting in Beirut—and you will see that every time that happens, the next day the Israeli air force has bombed a Shi’ite base in Lebanon.
It’s beautiful. You hear that, and the next day—Boom! Now if you notice in the last week or so there is some negotiation that the French were going to meet Hussain and maybe some tension would be relieved. The next day Israel gives out gas masks. And on the American television show of Geraldo Rivera, Bibi [Benjamin] Netanyahu, the ambassador of israel, says ‘Israel is the safest country in the world. Tomorrow I am going to the beaches where thousands will be. All this war talk is far beyond us. It has nothing to do with us.’ He is with the Foreign Ministry. So why the hell is he giving out gas masks?
I don’t think they’ve given them out in the West Bank.
No. Those guys have to buy them. Once they finish giving them out to Israelis, Palestinians will be able to purchase them.
I understand they are concerned the Palestinians will use them during demonstrations.
A military man was asked about that on Geraldo and he answered, ‘If they think they can protect themselves with a gas mask, they still have a lot to learn.’ This show was from Jerusalem last Thursday [Oct. 4]. I only saw half of it. My wife called me while I was reading my book onto tape, and say they are talking about your book. If you see it, you will notice the audience is all very blonde.
Why?
They brought a lot of students and other people to make the background “good” for the show. It’s an old practice.
But [about Bull], all I know is what I have heard… I don’t know how he actually got taken out. Do you know?
According to what I have read, as he was unlocking the door to his girlfriend’s apartment in a hotel in Brussels, someone stepped up to him with a silencer-equipped automatic weapon and fired two shots into the back of his neck and three into his upper chest…
What gun was it? Because if it’s a 9-mm you don’t need a silencer at that distance, How do they know it had a silencer?
The gun was left on the floor. It was 7.65 mm.
That’s a caliber used in the Israeli military. That is a Belgian type of weapon made by Fabrique Nationale, FN. It takes a standard FN bullet. it was not a 7.62?
7.65 is what has been reported. Another point of interest is that his neighbors were an old Jewish couple who had been there for some months. After Bull’s death they never returned to their apartment and have not been located.
Do the authorities know their former residence?
I don’t know the answer to that.
That’s very interesting. I never heard that. That sounds like a sayanim, the local Jewish helpers that are used . . . And they disappeared? How old is old?
I don’t know that either.
These are interesting things… It is very possible that these are the people who did it. That gives them access, knowledge and time. They could walk right up to him. Once could walk up and stand to the side of him while he is unlocking, and the other one, let’s say, is in the garbage room, which would be say, say, on the other side of the hall, holding the gun and holding another thing with him. Then the first person would him so he’s going to turn going to turn his back to the other one who’s going to shoot him. The other one comes right up to him, shoots him in the back. He knows the people, so why worry. And they both just leave. Nobody would even notice them leaving the building because they live there. They go down the stairs and if somebody does come along and find them, they would start screaming, ‘look what happened, look what happened.’
The gun is on the floor, there might be one glove that covers the entire… you know, when you shoot it leaves the marks on your hands, so you have a sleeve like a surgeon, but it goes all the way up to your elbow, so even on your jacket nothing’s left. So that’s it? Nobody looked for them… They are too old? Weren’t they suspects? What about the police? Didn’t they look for them?
They were never found.
That’s interesting. That would be typical. There you have it. There is the planning, you have the carrying out of the operation… What about his girlfriend?
Ball’s wife kept the family establishment in Canada. She and all the children appeared at the funeral, but the girlfriend has dropped from sight.
How long did he know her?
I don’t know.
Do they have pictures of any of the neighbors?
I don’t know.
Even a composite?
I would think so. But not a lot of information has been forthcoming.
I know that.
Your scenario is an interesting one.
It’s a logical one. Before you told me what happened it didn’t make sense. That’s why I said before I didn’t see any connection whatsoever, but once I see that kind of picture then it changes all around.”
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