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Last update - 10:39 01/06/2008 Report: Livni hunted Palestinian terrorists for Mossad in Europe By Haaretz Service Tags: Mossad, Israel, Tzipi Livni Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni served as a Paris agent for the Mossad overseas intelligence agency in the 1980s during a series of missions it ran to kill Palestinian terrorists across Europe, according to the Sunday Times. The report cites Livni's former colleagues as saying the Kadima frontrunner was on active duty in 1983, when senior Palestine Liberation Organization official Mamoun Meraish was shot dead by two Mossad agents in Athens. While Livni was not involved in the killing, her service in the Mossad remains secret, the report says. She had joined the agency after completing her service in the Israel Defense Forces with a rank of lieutenant and one year of law school. Advertisement According to the report, during Livni's service in the Mossad she traveled from her Paris base throughout Europe, seeking out Palestinian terrorists. "Tzipi was not an office girl," the report quotes an acquaintance of Livni as saying. "She was a clever woman with an IQ of 150. She blended in well in European capitals, working with male agents, most of them ex-commandos, taking out Arab terrorists." Livni resigned from the agency in the 1980s and returned to Israel to complete her legal degree, citing the stress of the job, the Sunday Times wrote. The foreign minister is seen as the heir to the Kadima party, once primary elections have been held. Last week, she broke her silence regarding the investigation against Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and called for fresh elections amid the corruption case. A recent Haaretz-Dialog poll indicated that a Livni-led Kadima would garner 23 Knesset seats, compared to a predicted 29 seats for opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party. Livni has greatly accelerated her political activity within Kadima since the probe against Olmert was announced. Party sources say that last week her camp stepped up their recruiting efforts, taking hundreds of party membership applications from party headquarters Bookmark to del.icio.us   Knowing when to fold Ehud Olmert tells Kadima to begin preparations for party primaries. Time for vegetarianism? Kosher meat prices in the U.S. are likely to soar after a raid on an Iowa plant.   1.   She couldn`t handle the stress of the Mosad 11:00  |  Moshe 01/06/08   2.   ANOTHER "GEM" BROUGHT 11:06  |  Robert 01/06/08   3.   Haaretz: "Her service remains secret" 11:16  |  Margie in Tel Aviv 01/06/08   4.   Livni in the Mossad? So what? 11:28  |  Michael 01/06/08   5.   Involved in extra-judicial killings one could also say? 11:46  |  Dutch Dirk 01/06/08   6.   Livni and Mosad 11:55  |  Tina 01/06/08   7.   Re Moshe#1...no Mossad agent spends a lifetime at it... 11:59  |  Esther 01/06/08   8.   Livni Was Really a Bikini-Clad 007 Girl in Maxim Magazine 12:30  |  Ovadiah ben Avraham 01/06/08   9.   Tzipi Livini 12:32  |  Charles Smyth 01/06/08   10.   #5 dutch dirk or was it dutch dirt? 12:44  |  M. 01/06/08   11.   Robert - not recovered from the Vanunu story? 12:45  |  Palestinian Brit 01/06/08   12.   IQ of 150? 12:46  |  Ilan 01/06/08   13.   Arab terrorists in Europe were killing Israelis, Euros too cowerd 12:50  |  PETER SM 01/06/08   14.   FM. Livni, and the Sunday Times report. 12:54  |  David Nigel Braham 01/06/08   15.   Tzipora was in the Mossad at most 3 years according to this story 13:05  |  Genuine Tosefta 01/06/08   16.   150 IQ?................ It is more like 50! 13:10  |  Genuine Tosefta 01/06/08   17.   oh.. thats nothing.. Livni can defeat Hezbollah single handedly 13:14  |  Avi 01/06/08   18.   Thousands of Jews were killed in extra-judicial Terrorism 13:15  |  Genuine Tosefta 01/06/08   19.   So what? Dichter spent 30 years in Shabak, not 2 like Tzipi! 13:22  |  Genuine Tosefta 01/06/08   20.   interesting stuff 13:29  |  christoph 01/06/08   21.   sex girl 13:39  |  a person who knows 01/06/08   22.   Dutch, how are you different from our enemies? 13:41  |  Avi 01/06/08   23.   To #18- Israelis were killed as terrorists, thives and murderers 13:41  |  KA 01/06/08   24.   Peter, SM they were not 13:49  |  Marilyn 01/06/08   25.   #13 13:55  |  Dav 01/06/08   26.   "She blended in well....." with an ultra heavy Israeli speech? 14:13  |  Genuine Tosefta 01/06/08   27.   Oh, she`s a Bond girl! 14:17  |  Aphemia 01/06/08   28.   PAL BRIT Unlike Arabs in power Olmert is being investigated 14:22  |  PETER SM 01/06/08   29.   #11 Pal Brit....What sins? 14:31  |  Lynn 01/06/08   30.   Margie in Tel Aviv...well, don`t feel too badly 14:34  |  Lynn 01/06/08   31.   #21: Good Point! Tzipi`s Foreign Language Ability is Terrible 14:45  |  Ovadiah ben Avraham 01/06/08   32.   The more I hear about her, the more I like her 14:53  |  Hannah 01/06/08   33.   How I fired her, because she was useless 15:07  |  ex-Mossad agent 27yr 01/06/08   34.   Livni/Language Skills 15:07  |  j 01/06/08   35.   The circumstances of how I fired her, because she was useless 15:08  |  ex-Mossad agent 27yr 01/06/08   36.   DOES SHE SPEAK ANY FRENCH??? 15:15  |  p\PLEASE ANSWER 01/06/08   37.   WOW KICK ASS Livne!!!! 15:17  |  Sharon 01/06/08   38.   Like father, like daughter: Israeli terrorism 15:20  |  Nick Ferriman 01/06/08   39.   yes we all know shes being promoted for the coming elections 15:30  |  David 01/06/08   40.   Killing extra-judicial terrorists is humane 15:31  |  Genuine Tosefta 01/06/08   41.   FERRIMAN you expect Arab hit squads to have a free hand 15:38  |  PETER SM 01/06/08   42.   livni 15:54  |  azad 01/06/08   43.   Thats why her and Sarkozy 16:07  |  Rachel Stevens 01/06/08   44.   nick ferriman europe certainly does not have clean hands 16:17  |  avihu 01/06/08   45.   ferriman :"out damned spot" 16:20  |  avihu 01/06/08   46.   STEVENS "common currency" really? Yet French still elected him 16:21  |  PETER SM 01/06/08   47.   ferriman "extra judicial assassinations" 16:22  |  avihu 01/06/08   48.   the problem ferriman is that hatred of the jewish people 16:24  |  avihu 01/06/08   49.   Now who would want info. leaked out now? 16:25  |  Sin D. 01/06/08   50.   Legs and IQ 16:28  |  Baz Mann 01/06/08   51.   Faucet can leak not Mossad 16:29  |  Nat 01/06/08   52.   Livni 16:36  |  Edithann 01/06/08   53.   #38 nick the fairy man never heard of james bond 16:41  |  victor hardman 01/06/08   54.   ferriman did i mention the air battle with the british 16:46  |  avihu 01/06/08   55.   ferriman did you mention the persecution of muslims 16:49  |  avihu 01/06/08   56.   ferriman israel at war has been the most compassionate of nations 16:55  |  avihu 01/06/08   57.   IQ 150? Or 50% smarter than her supporters 16:57  |  Shlomo 01/06/08   58.   # 5 D# 5 - How many Amsterdam Jews were extra-judicially killed? 17:09  |  Paul Henzen 01/06/08   59.   Yes , i have seen her there doing them all 17:10  |  Sal 01/06/08   60.   WAS SHE THE ONE WHO LURED MORD VANUNU BY SLEEPING WITH HIM? 17:11  |  JACKAL 01/06/08   61.   To #1 Moshe 17:19  |  Aaron 01/06/08   62.   #11 Palestinian Brit - You fail to understand 17:25  |  * BEN JABO 01/06/08   63.   Livini 17:26  |  Ralph 01/06/08   64.   "Livni hunted Palestinian terrorists for Mossad in Europe". If so 17:36  |  Yavin 01/06/08   65.   And you all forget so easily 17:52  |  Cliff 01/06/08   66.   Livni II 17:52  |  Ralph 01/06/08   67.   She always looked like a man to me. 17:53  |  Yaakov Sullivan 01/06/08   68.   #60 Jackal - I think it may have been you 18:00  |  *BEN JABO 01/06/08   69.   How dod she handle... 18:08  |  Jeff 01/06/08   70.   Sullivan is telling us he was attracted to her 18:09  |  glial 01/06/08   71.   She still Is Not Capable To Be PM Of Israel 18:19  |  Dish It Out 01/06/08