I am shocked!, shocked! that gambling is taking place here such a figure within Hamas was traveling without his own security in Dubai!
Psst, was it a Mossad honeytrap?
Posted on 02/10/2010 9:36:54 AM PST by La Lydia
Dubai, UAE -- A shadowy figure murdered in his Dubai hotel room by a hit squad that the police say operated with European passports. It sounds like the plot of a John Le Carré spy novel, but this is reality and the hunt is on for the killers of top Hamas official Mahmoud al-Mabhouh...al-Mabhouh landed at Dubai International airport on January 19. Then, a short drive to his hotel, the al Bustan Rotana, where just hours later he would be killed.
Dubai police say he was not traveling under his real name, so the hotel staff would have been unaware he was one of the founding members of Hamas' military wing and was wanted by Israel for more than 20 years.
...His brother in Gaza tells CNN he never ate or drank in a hotel or on a plane as he knew he was a target...
Dubai police...told al-Mabhouh's family there were signs of five or six electric shocks on his legs, behind his ears, on his genitals and heart. Blood on a pillow led police to believe he was suffocated...
It's believed they left the country even before al-Mabhouh's body was discovered. Dubai police...have publicly voiced surprise that such a figure within Hamas was traveling without his own security.
At his family home in Gaza there is the same conviction that Israel's intelligence unit, Mossad, was responsible...Al-Mabhouh was behind the kidnapping and killing of two Israeli soldiers in 1989. Israeli security sources say al-Mabhouh was a key link between Iran, Hezbollah and Hamas and he was involved in smuggling arms to Gaza....
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
I am shocked!, shocked! that gambling is taking place here such a figure within Hamas was traveling without his own security in Dubai!
Psst, was it a Mossad honeytrap?
Makes sense. But still, why go dressed as you, under a fake name, and probably carrying his own cell phone?
What do you think these guys pulled off the dearly departed’s cell phone, if indeed he had it on him?
One can only hope he did.
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Interesting insight.
Thanks for the ping.
If the Mossad did it ,...good!
Actually ...Good for who ever did it.
Mahmoud al-Mabhouh dead?
Darn and me being fresh out of sympathy!
Given what a rats nest of competing groups the wonderful world of Palestinian terrorism is, nothing would surprise me less if it was another group.
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