Yahya El Mashad

His Life and Education

Dr.Yehya El Mshd was born in Benha, Egypt, in 1932, and assassinated in Paris in 1980. He started his education in the schools of Tanta, Egypt, graduating from the Electrical Engineering Department in the Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria University, in 1952. Although he traveled to London to gain his doctorate in 1956, due to the Tripartite Aggression he eventually traveled to Moscow, to complete his studies. He married there, spending about 6 years in the Soviet Union, and returned home in 1963, to accept a professorship in Nuclear engineering.

His Career

After his return he joined the Egyptian Atomic Energy Authority but after the 1967 war the Egyptian nuclear program was frozen, so his research in the field of nuclear engineering stopped. He then traveled to Iraq where he led the Iraqi nuclear programme, and supervised the nuclear co-operation agreement with France. In 1980 he refused to receive a uranium shipment as it did not meet the agreed specifications, after which the French authorities insisted on his presence in Paris to receive the shipment. While he was there he was assassinated, on 14 June 1980. French police guessed that he was killed by an unknown female Mossad Agent, but to date this conjecture has not been confirmed.

Many books and documentaries in the Arab world especially in Egypt talked about the assassination of Al-Mashad even more than bombing the Iraqi Nuclear program. The most famous and best documentary that covered this assassination was Youssry Fouad’s special documentary on Al-Jazeera. Also in 1991 ex-Mossad agent Victor Ostrovsky published his book “By way of deception “,this book includes the details Dr. Al-Mashad assassination.

Back to the French documentary, well this documentary shows you how the Israeli Mossad orchestrated the whole operation. I know it is in French and there is no subtitles I am afraid but insh Allah I will summarize the main points below:

Israel wanted to sabotage the Iraqi Nuclear program which Iraq started it in 1975 with the help of France.

The Israeli Mossad began to stop it through several ways:

1. Sending threatening letters to the French scientists in program ordering them to leave Iraq, interestingly enough the mails were signed by a bogus Islamist group!!!!

2. Using the old techniques of assassination targeting the scientists of the program, above Dr. Yahia Al- Mashad. Despite the official report regarding the assassination, the documentary shows how the Mossad did it.

1. Mossad officer Crif who was working in the Israeli Embassy in Paris recruited a call girl to know Al-Mashad’s room number in the Meridian hotel. That girl also tried to seduce Al-Mashad but failed on contrary to what Ostrovsky claims in his book

2. On the 13th of June 1980, Someone had entered the room of the scientist and killed him.

3. His skull was smashed by a sharp instrument that has not been identified up till now according to the French forensic report.

4. The case was closed without reaching to the murderer, the official story considered it unprofessional and that it was a crime of passion involving a woman “the call girl”

5. The call girl was killed in a hit and run accident when the police began to ask her questions.

• The French intelligence knew about this all that time and you can see in the documentary the French intelligence officer who was responsible for this particular case.
• Another scientist called Abdul Al-Rasoul was poisoned.
• In the end the Iraqi reactor bombed and a sad end to the Iraqi Nuclear program put.

Regardless of what you think about Saddam regime which I do not favor by all means still to describe what I think, I will say that I wish that Nasser did not stop our Nuclear program. Believe me it is not a conspiracy theory mindset, it is more than that.

Article reflects the view of the author

By Fatma Dawod

References:

·  Dr. Yahia Al Mashad from Arabic Wikipedia.

·  http://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%84%D8%AD%D9%82:%D9%82%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%85%D8%A9_%D8%B9%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%A1_%D9%85%D8%B5%D8%B1_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%BA%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86_%D9%81%D9%8A_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AE%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AC

·  Al Jazeera Youssry Fouad’s documentary about the assassination of Al-Mashad “script in Arabic”

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