[camerongood210]

I’ve been reading up and I’m starting to wonder about the Mossad connection. It really doesn’t look like their work. Too many people, too elaborate and they went to ridiculous lengths to try to make it seem like natural causes. They went to enormous lengths to have four guys slip into his hotel room to smother him without leaving a mark when he could just as easily been gunned down in the street or blown up in his car. But then again, who else could it have been?

Now that you mention it, that kind of does make sense. It seems to be Mossad's MO to make a big scene out of their assassinations. Almost like they're countering what the terrorists do by making the terrorists afraid to travel or even go outside.

[sinanju]

From my readings, the Mossad did not usually go in for being elaborate. For the real-life “Munich” saga, they relied on close-range pistol work. The last one in ‘78, Ali Hassan Salameh, was blown up with a car bomb in Beirut. They did get a little more elaborate in that they set up a female agent in a nearby apartment, posing as a crazy cat-lady british widower to observe the comings and goings of the careful Salameh.

The eighties hits on Saddam’s nuclear networkers were also pretty straightforward.