Was Israeli 'Dagger' Unit Behind Hamas Hit?

ABCnews.com ^ | February 19, 2010 | ABC news staff

[hennie pennie]

ABCNews -- .....One Israeli columnist and authority on Israel's intelligence organizations says that all of Mossad's foreign operations similar to the one it is accused of in Dubai are carried out by a special unit called Kidon, Hebrew for dagger. The unit consists of a few dozen men and women who receive rigorous and specialized training including unarmed combat, weapons training, high-speed driving of both cars and motorcycles, and the field craft of trailing suspects without detection. Kidon operatives only work on short contracts of a few years because the work is so stressful. The agents regularly undergo extensive psychological evaluations to check their mental wellbeing....

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.....Leading columnist Gideon Levy, writing in Haaretz, asserts: "Dagan has just been given another year on the job, his eighth. Why? Partly because he is a specialist in liquidation." Dagan is described as a soft-spoken but ruthless former paratrooper who was close to the former Israeli prime minister and war hero Ariel Sharon. His leadership of Mossad has caused tension inside the organization and his style contrasts sharply with his more diplomatic predecessor Ephraim Halevy. One former Mossad staffer says, "Dagan is not the kind of man to care about angering a few people to get the job done. He is what you call a one man show."

[hennie pennie]

Evidentally, the Commissioner of Police in Dubai has even more suspects, and intends to identify them soon. "He added that identities of five further suspects would soon be revealed along with other details...."

However there is no mention made of the three Palestinians currently in custody.

[shadeaud]

Heaven knows what would be in store for these undercover agents if they were American and on an American mission.

[Flash Bazbeaux]

Why accuse the “dagger” unit? Has the “cloak” unit been cleared already?

[hennie pennie]

OMG -- YOU are so funny, LOLOLOL

>>> "Why accuse the 'dagger' unit? Has the 'cloak' unit been cleared already?" <<<<

The Kidon is the special elite assassination team; kidon is a Hebrew word meaning, "dagger."

[hennie pennie]

MAYBE they are Americans? We have all sorts of special ops teams, right?

[hennie pennie]

FYI, the Commissioner of Police in Dubai is still yakking to the MSM about how he years for the arrest of Meir Dagan, and Bibi, too; he claims that he is going to soon release many details about the case along with the identities of 5 MORE suspects.

LOL - doesn't that now make it 23 persons of interest??? LOL

[SJackson]

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This has become such a brouha over the killing of a terrorist that most of the countries involved are pleased is dead, along with a few not involved, Egypt, Jordan for starters, I'm going with the standard solution till the movie comes out.

Bush did it!

[bajabaja]

I'm going with the standard solution till the movie comes out. Bush did it!

Cheney just made it seem that way.

[elhombrelibre]

I did it.

[missnry]

and the field craft of trailing suspects without detection.

With the world wired with cameras at every corner we might have to have a little more clarification on that "without detection" part of the manual.

[hennie pennie]

It’ll be interesting to see; however, it’s my distinct impression that Mossad has been VERY busy this past decade, and I recall NO other movies being recovered.

[zbogwan2]

I'd like to have been a fly on the wall in the Terrorists room, watching his eyes as he was meeting his just due, at the hands of some guy/girl holding a tennis racket.Wonder if the Mossad assassins cried out ALU Akbar, while smiling, as the terrorist wet his pants and expired?

All Hail to Israel and the Mossad!

[hennie pennie]

Well, maybe you can be sort of like a fly on the wall some time in the future --- really, this incident has 'full length film' written all over it, it would make a great movie, don't you think?

LOL

But maybe Daniel Silva already used this as the plot for one his superb Mossad Sp00k spy thrillers???

[zbogwan2]

I watched the Dubai camera video of the Mossad characters coming and going and it was exciting just watching the pros work.

[Eleutheria5]

Then all power to Bush.

[SJackson]

Yeah, from now on it’s Cheney did it, let him have the credit.

[hennie pennie]

LOLOLOL, can you imagine a Mossad agent ever saying, "Meow"???????

LOL, too funny.