The Mossad Commando That KILLED Abu Jihad in Tunis — and Stayed Secret for 24 Years

In the early hours of April 16, 1988, a team of Israeli commandos landed on the Tunisian coast, drove to a quiet suburb of Tunis, and killed the PLO's second-in-command in his own home. Israel said nothing. For twenty-four years, the operation had no official author. This is the story of Abu Jihad — Khalil al-Wazir — the man who built the PLO's military wing from a refugee camp in Gaza, who planned the operations that put him on Israel's most-wanted list, and who was targeted in one of the most complex long-range raids in intelligence history. A naval flotilla. Air cover a hundred miles offshore. A commando dressed as a tourist carrying a box of chocolates. The file was sealed in 1988. It was opened, quietly, in 2012. #ColdWar #Mossad #AbuJihad #PLO #Espionage #IsraeliIntelligence #ColdWarHistory #Declassified #ColdWarSpies #TargetedKilling