By Barry Chamish
Israeli Journalist
chamish@netvision.net.il

Last Thursday, Sept. 21, I sent a request to the State Comptroller, Prof. Eliezer Goldberg, to investigate deep inconsistencies in the Shamgar Commission Of Inquiry into the Rabin assassination. I sent you the request so there is no need to reproduce it in full. But to remind you, I sent the State Comptroller the Shamgar Report's passages which found that Rabin was shot twice in the back from 50 cm. distance. Following that, I included the police and hospital reports which determined that Rabin was shot three times, twice from point blank range and once frontally. Finally, I added a videotape of Shimon Peres saying that he saw Rabin's body and he was shot three times and once from the front.

I sent duplicates of the request, with the documents and videotape included to 19 journalists. To my shock, three of them informed me today that they did not receive the package. So I called the State Comptroller's office, gave them the number of registered post, and I was informed that the package never arrived.

So how was I to explain the registered letter I received later in the day from the very same office? It reads:

In regard to your request to investigate inconsistencies in the official version of the Rabin assassination, this is not within the scope of subjects covered by the State Comptroller. Signed: Yehoshua Roth, Aide To The State Comptroller.

That was it. There was no explanation why the request was not within the scope of subjects covered by his boss. So I spoke to an attorney who explained:

"The State Comptroller is responsible for maintaining honest government. His mandate specifies that he investigate legitimate suspicions of incompetence or corruption in government-run or government-affiliated bodies, The Shamgar Commission was most certainly a government-run body as it was appointed by the Justice Ministry. Your request is backed by ample evidence of, at least incompetence, and possibly corruption. My opinion is Mr. Roth is not telling the truth.

"I will add a point that may not specifically be relevant to your request to the State Comptroller. Your evidence, if proven truthful, points to incompetence and corruption in numerous governing bodies including the police, prosecutor's office and Supreme Court, all of which fall under the scope of the State Comptroller's mandate. I suggest you appeal the decision and quickly."

Tomorrow morning I am going in person to the State Comptroller's Office to appeal the decision but I request your help. Those of us determined to get the Rabin murder truth out have been turned back by the police, media and Supreme Court. This time we've reached the last stop and let's give the State Comptroller a fight.

The phone number of the State Comptroller's Office is 02 6665000. The fax is 02 6665323/ Attention Prof. Eliezer Goldberg or Yehoshua Roth. BOMBARD THEM WITH YOUR PROTESTS!!!!

I spoke with a person with much experience dealing with the State Comptroller. He informed me, "They just moved offices and are months behind in their work. Roth replied to you the day he received your request. That is unheard of in the best of situations and it can only mean that political pressure was applied that day."

Now please, let us apply pressure and lots of it the other way. Send this letter to everyone you know. Let the State Comptroller feel the wrath of the public as fast as they covered up the truth. I'll be in his office Thursday morning. Please pave my way.

Now as you know, whenever something outrageous like this happens, I release sensitive evidence. Take a look at the attached photo, NEVER released to the public. It shows two things of interest. One, the forward car is Rabin's. Look how close the ambulance is to it; a matter of feet. Why wasn't he in it after he was supposedly shot?

Now look at man in the suit passing Rabin's car. That is Shimon Peres. And who is personally guarding him from behind? That is Yuval Schwartz, the Head Of Rally Security. And he was Yigal Amir's commander for a time in Golani. What is he doing in Peres' personal security squad? Why didn't he give the same personal treatment to Rabin when he was in the same spot barely two minutes later?

Now let's give it to the State Comptroller! Best, Barry Chamish

Editor's Note: Over the years I have come to believe that events in one country, such as the Rabin assassination in Israel, often times has much to do with politicals in other parts of the world. When someone like Rabin is assassinated, we often see it as an isolated incident when, perhaps, it has everything to do with other concerns, such as the push toward globalisation. Although I realize that most of us will not respond by calling the State Comptroller of Israel, we need to be aware of the many twists and turns in other parts of the world that are often times connected to our own country--perhaps, maybe... --Al Colombo