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Arab States have a policy on attacks, assassinations and bombings: blame Israel first, second and third. If anyone else is responsible, blame Israel. The Syrians did the same after the bombing of Hariri in Lebanon, which, it now appears, was actually the result of a Syrian higher-up order.
The lesson to be learnt is that we simply do not know who did what in the Middle East unless it is confirmed later by reasonably reliable sources. Even then it is hard to assess who is a reasonably reliable source and under what circumstances.
"You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours."--General Sir Charles James Napier
A well-executed operation wouldn't have gotten this much publicity.
Don't be a ****; it's getting publicity because the Mossad killed a high-ranking Hamas member in a Muslim country. The Israelis can't control Hamas members' travel itineraries.
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You don't have to like Mossad, but you can't help but admire their balls. (in before Asher's gay joke)
We should do the same to Akhmed Zakayev. Whose passports should FSB use?
A well-executed operation wouldn't have gotten this much publicity.
Don't be a ****; it's getting publicity because the Mossad killed a high-ranking Hamas member in a Muslim country. The Israelis can't control Hamas members' travel itineraries.
They can prevent the authorities from figuring out which of the people who entered their country were Mossad agents.
How do you know the Dubai police even know which people were the Mossad agents and which weren't? There isn't any evidence tying any of this to the Mossad, let alone evidence that the people caught on CCTV that the Dubai police claim were Mossad agents actually were.
I guess that it's time for all of us to give Drake a glass of milk and a cookie - he is after all quite "something"
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
I really want a "Don't Mess With The Mossad" t-shirt...
Assassination fever.
These have been around for a while. When I was in Israel they were very popular there. Even Arab T-shirt shops were selling them in the Old City. But yeah, I suppose now they are even MORE popular
If there is no sound in space, how come you can hear the lasers?
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And none of this is to mention that the Mabhouh assassination had all the hallmarks of an Israeli hit: a large team, composed of men and women, and an almost flawless execution. If it had been a Russian hit, for instance, they would have used a pistol or a car bomb, indifferent to the chaos left behind.
After Dubai released the tapes, the narrative quickly became that the assassination was an embarrassing blunder for Tel Aviv. ... Why were so many people involved? (The latest report is that there were 26 members of the team.) Why were identities stolen from people living in Israel? Why didn't they just kill Mr. Mabhouh in a dark alley, one assassin with a pistol with a silencer? Or why at least didn't they all cover their faces with baseball caps so that the closed-circuit TV cameras did not have a clean view?
The truth is that Mr. Mabhouh's assassination was conducted according to the book—a military operation in which the environment is completely controlled by the assassins. At least 25 people are needed to carry off something like this. You need "eyes on" the target 24 hours a day to ensure that when the time comes he is alone. You need coverage of the police—assassinations go very wrong when the police stumble into the middle of one. You need coverage of the hotel security staff, the maids, the outside of the hotel. You even need people in back-up accommodations in the event the team needs a place to hide.
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