Mossad Unconcerned People Might Catch On To Hajj-Stampede Device

Neither official Saudi media nor local observers appear to have caught on that the Mossad is behind the stampede, as part of a broader campaign to sow disaster and instability in the region.

Credit: Omar Chatriwala, Al Jazeera English

Mecca, September 24 – Israeli intelligence operatives expressed confidence today that even after repeated incidents involving hundreds of fatalities in stampedes surrounding the annual Hajj pilgrimage, no suspicions have raised regarding the Israeli machine that causes the disasters.

A stampede today near Mecca claimed at least 700 lives as two large groups of pilgrims converged on a bridge in the adjacent village of Mina. Hundreds more were injured, and witnesses said emergency workers had troubled reaching the site in large numbers because of blocked roads, the Associated Press reported. However, neither official Saudi media nor local observers appear to have caught on that the Mossad is behind the stampede, as part of a broader campaign to sow disaster and instability in the region, and then exploit the chaos to maintain its usurpation of Arab land and resources.

Mossad Colonel Gulli Bul said his organization was “extremely satisfied” that so far, none of the several stampedes at the Hajj in recent decades has been traced back to the agency. “The technology behind the device, which obviously I am not at liberty to discuss, is one coup,” he explained, “but that pales in comparison to the success we have enjoyed in our efforts to conceal the origins of these incidents, which, given the media hype in the Muslim world surrounding the Hajj, is no small feat.”

The few experts willing to discuss such a device spoke on condition of anonymity, fearing for their safety. “Any organization capable of developing and deploying a stampede-machine undetected can certainly make my death appear an unambiguous suicide or accident,” said one.

“As for the device itself,” continued the expert, “the nearest I can surmise is that it uses radio waves and aspects of nearby weather systems to induce a near-panic in large numbers of people present in a given location. If the stampede disasters occurred every single year, potential pilgrims would get too scared and simply stay home. But if they are less frequent, then pilgrims are lulled into complacency and the hundreds of casualties per stampede can still be caused.” The expert noted that the first use of the device was evidently in 1990, when 1,426 pilgrims were trampled or asphyxiated to death, but the Mossad wisely determined not to aim for such high casualty figures in subsequent deployments out of concern for reducing the number of potential targets if Hajj observance were to drop as a result. None of the seven subsequent stampedes, therefore, have claimed deaths beyond three figures.

Colonel Bul said that the Mossad regularly tests its machine, which can be operated remotely, at soccer games and at its facility in Pamplona, Spain, an ideal proving ground for trample-testing devices.