How Mossad Snipers Shot a Target on a Ferris Wheel form a Hotel Rooftop

A man rides the Ferris wheel in Vienna's Prater park with his teenage son. Three hundred meters away, on a hotel rooftop, a sniper's crosshairs track the rotating gondola. Twenty minutes later, one of the Palestine Liberation Organization's most dangerous commanders is dead—killed by a bullet fired through moving glass while families enjoyed carnival rides below.

This film reconstructs the 1985 Mossad operation that eliminated Abu Jihad, architect behind attacks that killed dozens of Israeli civilians. We examine how Israeli operatives turned a public amusement park into a kill zone, calculating wind speed, bullet deflection through glass, and the mathematics of hitting a target moving in a circular path at extended range.

We trace the months of surveillance—tracking Abu Jihad across Europe, identifying the brief vulnerability when he traveled to Vienna with his son, and exploiting the moment when a father's decision to ride a Ferris wheel separated him from his security detail. We reveal the specialized weapons, custom suppressor, and safe houses that allowed operatives to remain hidden in Vienna for weeks.

But this operation violated Austria's neutrality, conducting state-sanctioned killing on neutral soil. We explore the diplomatic fallout and Israel's calculated decision that eliminating a high-value target justified the international crisis. We also examine the human cost: a teenage boy who watched his father die, and the question of whether this was justified counterterrorism or a line crossed.

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