World War III has already begun, says Israeli spy chief
Pastor Dale Morgan
World War III has already begun, says Israeli spy chief*
Former head of Israel's intelligence service tells Portuguese newspaper
it would take at least 25 years before battle against fundamentalist
terrorism is won; says nuclear strike by Muslim terrorists 'very likely'
AFP
Published: 01.27.07, 20:32
A third World War is already underway between Islamic militancy and the
West but most people do not realize it, the former head of Israel’s
intelligence service Mossad said in an interview published Saturday in
Portugal.
‘We are in the midst of a third World War,’ former Mossad chief Efraim
Halevy told weekly newspaper Expresso.
‘The world does not understand. A person walks through the streets of
Tel Aviv, Barcelona or Buenos Aires and doesn’t get the sense that there
is a war going on,’ said Halevy who headed Mossad between 1998 and 2003.
‘During World War I and II the entire world felt there was a war. Today
no one is conscious of it. From time to time there is a terrorist attack
in Madrid, London and New York and then everything stays the same.’
Violence by Islamic militants has already disrupted international travel
and trade just as in the previous two world conflicts, he said.
Halevy, who was raised in war-time London, predicted it would take at
least 25 years before the battle against Islamic fundamentalist
terrorism is won and during this time a nuclear strike by Islamic
militants was likely.
‘It doesn’t have to be something very sophisticated, It doesn’t have to
be the latest nuclear technology, it can be something simple like a
dirty bomb which instead of killing millions only kills tens of
thousands,’ he said.
Halevy served as an envoy for former Israeli Prime Ministers Yitzhak
Shamir, Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres and is a former Israeli
ambassador to the European Union.