Editing Gerald Bull (section)

==Death==
Over a few months, his apartment suffered several non-robbery break-ins, apparently as a threat or a warning, but he continued to work on the project. On 22 March 1990, Bull was shot five times in the head and back at point-blank range while approaching the door of his apartment in Brussels. He was pronounced dead at the scene.<ref name="Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Archives – Video">{{cite news |last=Frum |first=Barbara |date=April 5, 1990 |title=Who killed Gerald Bull? |url=https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1402756337 |access-date=February 8, 2014 |publisher=[[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation]] |type=video}}</ref> ''The New York Times'' reported that when police arrived at the scene they found the key still in his door and his unopened briefcase containing nearly $20,000 in cash.<ref name="BBC Future"/> Another account states he was shot by a three-man team when he answered the doorbell.<ref name=II/>

The cooperation between Bull and Saddam Hussein was an immediate threat to Israel which had previous military engagements with Iraq during the [[Arab–Israeli conflict|Arab–Israeli war]]. Watching the development of the gun, Israel feared it could be used to launch nuclear weapons, but the re-designed Scud missiles were of greater concern at that moment.<ref>[http://world.std.com/~jlr/doom/bull.htm Profile] {{webarchive |url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100219121200/http://world.std.com/~jlr/doom/bull.htm |date=February 19, 2010}}, std.com; accessed 10 March 2016.</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/08/26/magazine/the-man-behind-iraq-s-supergun.html |newspaper=[[The New York Times Magazine]]|first= Kevin |last= Toolis |title=The Man Behind Iraq's Supergun |date=August 26, 1990 |access-date= March 10, 2016}}</ref>

===Aftermath===
According to investigative journalist [[Gordon Thomas (author)|Gordon Thomas]], the assassination of Bull had been sanctioned by [[Israel]]i Prime Minister [[Yitzhak Shamir]]. [[Nahum Admoni]] sent a three-man team to Brussels, where the [[Mossad]] agents shot Bull at his door-step. Within hours of the killing, according to Thomas, Mossad was engaged in distributing false stories to the European media, alleging that Bull had been shot by agents from Iraq.<ref name=Thomas>Gordon Thomas, [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/7254807/Mossads-licence-to-kill.html "Mossad's licence to kill"], ''[[The Daily Telegraph|The Telegraph]]'' February 17, 2010.</ref>

Although it was in the immediate interest of both Israel and Iran that Bull discontinue his cooperation with Saddam Hussein, he had worked for many different parties in many critical defence projects, and had become both an asset and a liability for several powerful groups simultaneously.<ref>[http://archives.cbc.ca/IDD-1-74-626/people/gerald_bull/ Dr. Gerald Bull: Scientist, Weapons Maker, Dreamer], CBC.ca; accessed March 10, 2016.</ref> Given Bull's past ventures, it has been speculated that besides Iran or Israel, the [[CIA]]; [[MI6]]; or the Chilean, Syrian, Iraqi, or South African government could have been behind his assassination.<ref name="NYT1990"/>

===Remaining equipment===
[[Project Babylon]] was stopped when [[Supergun affair|supergun]] parts were seized by [[HM Customs and Excise|Customs]] in the United Kingdom in March 1990 leading to most of Bull's staff returning to Canada. Some of the confiscated parts have survived after they were not needed as evidence{{#tag:ref|They would normally have been sold for disposal resulting in them being cut up for scrap| group="Note"}} and because customs were interested in the story, some of the barrel pipes were given to museums and to the Ministry of Defence.<ref name="BBC Future"/> In Iraq, all remaining gun barrels and propellants were destroyed by UN inspectors after the [[Gulf War|Persian Gulf War]] in October 1991.{{sfnp|Schedel|1993|p=90}}