British authorities are investigating how six British nationals apparently had their identities stolen by suspected Mossad agents on a mission to assassinate a Hamas leader in Dubai.....
....Mossad has used the forged and stolen passports of several friendly countries to carry out hits in the past, including a bungled assassination attempt on the Hamas leader, Sheikh Khaled Meshaal, in 1997, when forged Canadian passports were used.
In 2004, New Zealand suspended diplomatic relations with Israel after jailing two Israeli agents for possessing fake New Zealand passports. In 1987, Britain formally protested to Israel over the use of forged British passports, and received assurances it would not happen again.
"In the parlance of our time", LOL. Personally I would throw those dual nationality holders in the nick until it was proved that they were not the assassins. They could, however, obtain immediate release by renouncing British citizenship and pissing off to the Promised Land.
ReplyDeleteThe Israelis promised it wouldn't happen again. What do you know? Israelis lie. Still the next time they lie the British Foreign Office will believe them.
This story is playing on the BBC. The line is - somebody entered a foreign country and murdered a visitor. So what? They used fake British passports. Ooh that's criminal. Oh, and the BBC thinks Mossad MIGHT be involved.
<span>Jim Krane, the author of “City of Gold,” a recent book about Dubai, said, “If Israel did authorize the hit, it either found Mabhouh’s elimination worth the damage to its relationship with Dubai, or the hit squad made a big mistake.”
ReplyDeleteDubai officials suggested that the killers — whoever they were — did practice some sloppy tradecraft. Although the assassination was carried out without attracting notice, the suspects allowed themselves to be photographed repeatedly on surveillance cameras, sometimes ducking into bathrooms and emerging with fake beards but still recognizable, the Dubai police say.
Assuming that Israeli agents were responsible, Dubai may be the only place they could kill Mr. Mabhouh, said Robert Baer, a former C.I.A. operative in the Middle East. Assassinations took place there during the 1990s and drew little attention. But Dubai is now concerned about its reputation as a tourism and financial hub, and may have deliberately publicized the suspects’ identities — rather than handling the matter through private channels — to embarrass whoever planned the killing, he added.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/17/world/middleeast/17dubai.html</span>
As'ad on Worth's article in the NYT (above link)
ReplyDeleteRobert Worth: How could you????
I was reading the piece by Robert Worth this morning and then I encountered this passage: "<span>Mr. Mabhouh played a role in the kidnapping and killing of two Israeli soldiers in 1989, and was involved in supplying Iranian weapons to Hamas." I mean, this passage is even worse than the propaganda that fills dispatches by Kershner and Bronner. Usually, the last two quote non-stop Israeli military and intelligence propagandists, and tell you that they are citing them. You, on the other hand, cited an unverified Israeli intelligence propaganda claim WITHOUT giving the source to the reader. How did you know that to be true, Robert? How? Was he accused and convicted? Or is this public knowledge? You owe your readers an explanation.</span>