By Christopher Bollyn
Posted 16/06/2003
http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=854
Jürgen Möllemann, 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’s brutal occupation of Palestine, the
mainstream press chose to portray Möllemann’s death as the suicide of
a “disgraced” 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.
Möllemann, 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: “That doesn’t fit the picture I
have of Jürgen Möllemann, because he was a fighter,” Hans-Dietrich
Genscher, former German foreign minister, said.
Genscher and Möllemann 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.
Möllemann 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.
Möllemann resigned from the FDP in March of this year because of his
disagreements with the chairman of the party, Guido Westerwelle, which
centered on Möllemann’s pre-election criticism of Israeli leader Ariel
Sharon and Michel Friedman, the Vice-President of the Council of German
Jews.
In his recently released best-selling book, Klartext, (“Speaking
Frankly”), Möllemann accused Westerwelle of being blackmailed by the
Israeli secret service, Mossad.
Möllemann provoked outrage in the German press during last year’s
election campaign when he accused Friedman, who hosts a television talk
show, of fomenting anti-Semitism through his “intolerant, spiteful
style.” Möllemann was labeled as an anti-Semite when he published a
pamphlet shortly before the election last September criticizing
Friedman and Sharon.
“No one…creates more anti-Semites than Mr. Sharon, and Mr. Friedman
with his intolerant and cynical manner,” Möllemann said. Möllemann’s
statements blaming Jews for the existence of anti-Semitism crossed a
red line in German politics.
“Few things in Germany are more out of bounds for mainstream
politicians than criticism of Israel or Jews,” The Guardian (UK)
wrote. “Möllemann, a long-standing supporter of the Arab cause, clashed
repeatedly with Germany’s Jewish leaders over their support for the
Sharon government.”
The storm around Möllemann grew after he brought Jamal Karsli, a Syrian-
born Green Party delegate, into the FDP. Karsli accused the Israeli
military of using “Nazi methods” against the Palestinian population
under occupation.
“As president of the German-Arab society, Möllemann was a great
advocate of Arab issues and has done a lot to promote economics,” said
Peter Goepfrich, head of the German-Arab Chamber of Commerce in Cairo.
Möllemann had very good contacts, especially in the Gulf countries, and
in Lebanon and Syria. “He was well respected and considered a friend”,
Goepfrich said. The German media is reporting after his death that
Möllemann became wealthy through his “good contacts” and huge
commissions earned from weapons sales to the Arab world, particularly
to Saudi Arabia. German authorities are conducting an investigation
into Möllemann’s finances and his immunity as a parliamentarian was
lifted on the same day that he died.
“Möllemann’s death is a great loss for the Arab world,” said Mahdi
Hamad from Jordanian national television. The accusations of anti-
Semitism against Möllemann were unfair, he added.
Möllemann’s 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.
Two days after Möllemann’s death, Bild, the most popular German daily,
compared Möllemann’s 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 Möllemann’s death would remain “unsolved” like that of Barschel.
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’s Secret Agenda, that a team of Israeli assassins
had murdered Barschel.
Ostrovsky described how Barschel was lured to Geneva’s 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’s fully clothed
body was found in a hotel bathtub full of water on October 11, 1987.
Ostrovsky’s 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.
The Post article reported that the Barschel case has been re-opened as
a murder investigation because of evidence of “third party”
involvement. Investigators found that the overdose of sedatives found
in Barschel’s stomach had been forced down his throat through a tube
after he was dead.
“Just who the third party who went to such lengths to make a murder
look like a suicide might be, is unclear,” Andrew I. Killgore,
publisher of the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, wrote in
1995. Although the Israeli government issued a “formal denial” that it
was involved, such a denial, according to Killgore, especially if it
is “formal,” is widely accepted in the region as confirmation that the
opposite is true.
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.
As with Möllemann, Barschel’s death was ruled a suicide at the time,
although there was clear evidence Barschel had been murdered.
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.
In the case of Möllemann, 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.
Authorities said Möllemann’s emergency parachute had failed to open and
that they were investigating “the possibility” of suicide. “We are of
course examining all possibilities,” prosecutor Wolfgang Reinicke told
a news conference in the town of Recklinghausen. “The 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.”
Möllemann is reported to have taken off with nine other parachutists
from a small airfield at Loemühle. The jump commenced at about 13,000
feet and Möllemann was the eighth to leave the plane. The names of the
others, particularly the ninth and tenth parachutists who could have
interfered with Möllemann, have not been released although they have
been quoted in the press as un-named witnesses.
“One witness, who jumped from a plane at the same time as the
politician, said all the group’s parachutes had opened normally,” the
BBC reported on June 6. “Then suddenly the chute broke free from Mr.
Möllemann’s body, said the witness, adding that he must have detached
it himself. Mr. Möllemann’s spare chute then failed to open, indicating
that he must have switched off a safety mechanism in it, he said.”
Bild presented a photo of a luxury Breitling “Navitimer”
wristwatch, “probably belonging to Möllemann,” found more than 600 feet
from his body. That Möllemann 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.
Neither Möllemann nor Barschel left a suicide note.
Finis
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This article is hillarious.
Struggled with assailants in mid air? ROFL.
Moellermann was about to be arrested and charged with grand fraud of a
minimum of $800.000 Euros. At the time he died teams of police were raiding
his house, his holiday home and several other
premises including his offices.
Tilly
That's why it comes from the Rumor Mill News Agents.
Adam
Do they have competitions to see who can come up with the craziest
conspiracy theory?
Tilly
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They're not that imaginative. It's always the work of the CIA or Mossad.
Adam