Espionage and Preplanned Violence on the Humaniterror Flotilla

YNET headlined today certain people who were on the Manmarah:

This list included:
1. A senior Hamas terrorist
2. A Syrian Intelligence Officer who is Syria's liaison to Iran

The Israeli Intelligence community is furious at Bibi for releasing these terrorists and spies, while Gilad Shalit is still in captivity.

Well, it's now also been officially disclosed that at least one (and I have to double check, but perhaps as many as 3) boat(s) had zero Humanitarian aid on board. None whatsoever. (And this was unintentionally confirmed by Al Jazeera too when they showed the ship's hold and said that all it held was food for the ship's journey).

Besides the known terrorists and spies on board, from testimony of the ship's crew it's clear that the IHH/FreeGaza had a different plan for the flotilla right from the start.

The Manmarah's Chief Officer describes how the IHH took over his ship, and the preparations they made to attack the soldiers, and the equipment they took on board to facilitate this.

I've also got another video I have to find again that also shows people on the second deck supplying and passing slingshots to the people on the top deck.

Here's the text of the interview


Statement from the Chief Officer: I was on the bridge after dark, before anything happened, the third captain and I were sent in the direction of the life boats, where there were a lot of people and a lot of noise. The captain told me something was happening down there, there are noises, go see what’s going on. There were a lot of people. I told the third captain, you are more senior than I, come with me.”
Q: When did that happen?
A: Around eight o’clock, I don’t know exactly when, but around eight. I went down the stairs with the third captain. We saw a senior person [from IHH].
Q: Who?
A: That guy.
Q: What guy?
A: That guy. Maybe the third captain knows his name.
Q: The guy from IHH?
A: Yes, from IHH.
Q: Whose name does he know? The name of the guy from IHH who cut the railings?
A: No, the third captain knows him from IHH. We [the third captain and I] went together, we saw a lot of people milling around and we asked what was going on.
Q: Did you see them cutting [the railings]?
A: They [the iron rods] were already cut. It was all over.
Q: Who did the cutting?
A: I didn’t see.
Q: Who was holding the disk?
A: The disks were lying in a corner of the stairs and the senior guy [apparently a reference to Bülent Yildirim] was next to them.
Q: The senior guy from IHH?
A: Yes.
Q: Who did the disks belong to?
A: I don’t know, they didn’t belong to the ship. We don’t have equipment like that on board. On deck there were metal poles with clips for cables, when I got there they had been cut.
Q: When did this happen?
A: When it was getting dark. I asked one of them who cut the poles, and he said he didn’t know.
Q: Was the man you asked a crew member?
A: No.
Q: Did he belong to IHH?
A: Of course.
Q: You seem to be saying that the people from IHH were in control of the ship. Did the crew need their permission to move around the ship?
A: Definitely, they [i.e. IHH operatives] didn’t let people they didn’t know move around.
Q: Did they prevent anyone they didn’t know from moving freely around the ship?
A: Yes, definitely.
Q: And was that from the first moment they went up on deck?
A: Yes, definitely.
Q: How did the IHH operatives communicate with one another?
A: When they [the IHH operatives] got on board in Istanbul they brought walkie-talkies with them. They were handed out to the IHH operatives and the crew.
Q: Did you [the crew] get them as well?
A: Yes, each one worked on a different frequency.
Q: I don’t understand, they didn’t let the passengers and crew go from one deck to another?
A: They could go anywhere except to the control center they set up on the bridge.
Q: How many IHH operatives were there on the upper deck.
A: Forty.
Q: The same forty all the time or did they change?
A: More of less the same forty.
Q: You’re referring to the group that joined the ship in Istanbul?
A: yes.

You can watch the interview here.

Much more to come,

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