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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"J\u00fcrgen M\u00f6llemann, 57, a controversial and flamboyant German politician with the liberal Free Democratic Party (FDP) since 1972, fell to his death on June 5 while parachuting near the town of Marl in North Rhine Westphalia. Condemned as an anti-Semite in the German media for his outspoken criticism of Israel\u2019s brutal occupation of Palestine, the mainstream press chose to portray M\u00f6llemann\u2019s death as the suicide of a \u201cdisgraced\u201d politician whose career was in ruins. While the media barely mentioned the possibility of murder there is substantial suspicion – and some evidence – of foul play. <\/p>\n
M\u00f6llemann, married with three daughters, was busy preparing to launch a new populist political party and was reported to be in good health and high spirits. The idea that he would have committed suicide was dismissed by those who knew him best: \u201cThat doesn\u2019t fit the picture I have of J\u00fcrgen M\u00f6llemann, because he was a fighter,\u201d Hans-Dietrich Genscher, former German foreign minister, said. <\/p>\n
Genscher and M\u00f6llemann had worked together in the pro-business liberal party to form an alliance in 1982 with the Christian Democratic Party. This alliance brought the conservative Chancellor Helmut Kohl to power. <\/p>\n
M\u00f6llemann rose to become Minister of State for Foreign Affairs (1982), Secretary of State for Education (1987), and Secretary of State for Economic Affairs (1991). In 1993 he served as Vice-Chancellor. <\/p>\n
M\u00f6llemann resigned from the FDP in March of this year because of his disagreements with the chairman of the party, Guido Westerwelle, which centered on M\u00f6llemann\u2019s pre-election criticism of Israeli leader Ariel Sharon and Michel Friedman, the Vice-President of the Council of German Jews. <\/p>\n
In his recently released best-selling book, Klartext, (\u201cSpeaking Frankly\u201d), M\u00f6llemann accused Westerwelle of being blackmailed by the Israeli secret service, Mossad. <\/p>\n
M\u00f6llemann provoked outrage in the German press during last year\u2019s election campaign when he accused Friedman, who hosts a television talk show, of fomenting anti-Semitism through his \u201cintolerant, spiteful style.\u201d M\u00f6llemann was labeled as an anti-Semite when he published a pamphlet shortly before the election last September criticizing Friedman and Sharon. <\/p>\n
\u201cNo one\u2026creates more anti-Semites than Mr. Sharon, and Mr. Friedman with his intolerant and cynical manner,\u201d M\u00f6llemann said. M\u00f6llemann\u2019s statements blaming Jews for the existence of anti-Semitism crossed a red line in German politics. <\/p>\n
\u201cFew things in Germany are more out of bounds for mainstream politicians than criticism of Israel or Jews,\u201d The Guardian (UK) wrote. \u201cM\u00f6llemann, a long-standing supporter of the Arab cause, clashed repeatedly with Germany\u2019s Jewish leaders over their support for the Sharon government.\u201d <\/p>\n
The storm around M\u00f6llemann grew after he brought Jamal Karsli, a Syrian-born Green Party delegate, into the FDP. Karsli accused the Israeli military of using \u201cNazi methods\u201d against the Palestinian population under occupation. <\/p>\n
\u201cAs president of the German-Arab society, M\u00f6llemann was a great advocate of Arab issues and has done a lot to promote economics,\u201d said Peter Goepfrich, head of the German-Arab Chamber of Commerce in Cairo. <\/p>\n
M\u00f6llemann had very good contacts, especially in the Gulf countries, and in Lebanon and Syria. \u201cHe was well respected and considered a friend\u201d, Goepfrich said. The German media is reporting after his death that M\u00f6llemann became wealthy through his \u201cgood contacts\u201d and huge commissions earned from weapons sales to the Arab world, particularly to Saudi Arabia. German authorities are conducting an investigation into M\u00f6llemann\u2019s finances and his immunity as a parliamentarian was lifted on the same day that he died. <\/p>\n
\u201cM\u00f6llemann\u2019s death is a great loss for the Arab world,\u201d said Mahdi Hamad from Jordanian national television. The accusations of anti-Semitism against M\u00f6llemann were unfair, he added. <\/p>\n
M\u00f6llemann\u2019s sudden and mysterious death, and his involvement with Mossad and Middle Eastern weapons deals, recalls a similar incident involving a German politician 16 years ago. <\/p>\n
Two days after M\u00f6llemann\u2019s death, Bild, the most popular German daily, compared M\u00f6llemann\u2019s death with the death of Uwe Barschel, premier of Schleswig-Holstein, who was found dead in a Geneva hotel bathtub on October 11, 1987. Bild compared the two deaths and asked if the mystery of M\u00f6llemann\u2019s death would remain \u201cunsolved\u201d like that of Barschel. <\/p>\n
What Bild failed to mention was that Victor Ostrovsky, a former Mossad agent, wrote in a 1994 book, The Other Side of Deception: A Rogue Agent Exposes the Mossad\u2019s Secret Agenda, that a team of Israeli assassins had murdered Barschel. <\/p>\n
Ostrovsky described how Barschel was lured to Geneva\u2019s Beau Rivage Hotel by a phone call received in the Canary Islands from a Robert Oleff in October 1987. Barschel was ambushed in the hotel by a team of Mossad assassins, Ostrovsky wrote, who killed him and then forced barbiturates down his throat through a tube. Barschel\u2019s fully clothed body was found in a hotel bathtub full of water on October 11, 1987. <\/p>\n
Ostrovsky\u2019s grim account was confirmed in a January 1995 Washington Post article based on German, Spanish and Swiss police investigations of the murder, and the possible motives for it. <\/p>\n
The Post article reported that the Barschel case has been re-opened as a murder investigation because of evidence of \u201cthird party\u201d involvement. Investigators found that the overdose of sedatives found in Barschel\u2019s stomach had been forced down his throat through a tube after he was dead. <\/p>\n
\u201cJust who the third party who went to such lengths to make a murder look like a suicide might be, is unclear,\u201d Andrew I. Killgore, publisher of the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, wrote in 1995. Although the Israeli government issued a \u201cformal denial\u201d that it was involved, such a denial, according to Killgore, especially if it is \u201cformal,\u201d is widely accepted in the region as confirmation that the opposite is true.<\/p>\n
According to Ostrovsky, Barschel was murdered because he refused to allow Israeli arms for Iran to be shipped from Schleswig-Holstein ports. During the Iran-Iraq war, Israel and the United States secretly armed both sides. <\/p>\n
As with M\u00f6llemann, Barschel\u2019s death was ruled a suicide at the time, although there was clear evidence Barschel had been murdered. <\/p>\n
In both cases, dealings involving Middle Eastern weapons brought a German politician into contact with the Mossad. And in both cases the German politician involved met an untimely and mysterious death. <\/p>\n
In the case of M\u00f6llemann, a former military paratrooper who frequently parachuted into political rallies, death came when he became detached from his main parachute and fell into a barley field. How he became detached, however, and why his emergency parachute did not open has yet to be explained. <\/p>\n
Authorities said M\u00f6llemann\u2019s emergency parachute had failed to open and that they were investigating \u201cthe possibility\u201d of suicide. \u201cWe are of course examining all possibilities,\u201d prosecutor Wolfgang Reinicke told a news conference in the town of Recklinghausen. \u201cThe range in such a case is very large. You can put them in three categories: an accident, a suicide or sabotage, for instance manipulation of the parachute by another person.\u201d <\/p>\n
M\u00f6llemann is reported to have taken off with nine other parachutists from a small airfield at Loem\u00fchle. The jump commenced at about 13,000 feet and M\u00f6llemann was the eighth to leave the plane. The names of the others, particularly the ninth and tenth parachutists who could have interfered with M\u00f6llemann, have not been released although they have been quoted in the press as un-named witnesses. <\/p>\n
\u201cOne witness, who jumped from a plane at the same time as the politician, said all the group\u2019s parachutes had opened normally,\u201d the BBC reported on June 6. \u201cThen suddenly the chute broke free from Mr. M\u00f6llemann\u2019s body, said the witness, adding that he must have detached it himself. Mr. M\u00f6llemann\u2019s spare chute then failed to open, indicating that he must have switched off a safety mechanism in it, he said.\u201d <\/p>\n
Bild presented a photo of a luxury Breitling \u201cNavitimer\u201d wristwatch, \u201cprobably belonging to M\u00f6llemann,\u201d found more than 600 feet from his body. That M\u00f6llemann would have intentionally taken off his $12,000 watch as he plummeted to earth in a premeditated suicide plunge is unlikely. The watch, however, may have been ripped from his arm as he struggled with assailants in mid air. <\/p>\n
Neither M\u00f6llemann nor Barschel left a suicide note. <\/p>\n
Finis
\nCourtesy Rumor Mill News Agents Forum<\/p>\n
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