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The powerful, shadowy Mossad chief Meir Dagan is a ‘streetfighter’
Timesonline ^
| 2/18/10
| Sheera Frenkel
Posted on 02/18/2010 10:35:23 AM PST by Nachum
The brazen assassination of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh has thrown the spotlight on one of Israels most powerful but shadowy figures, Meir Dagan, the current Mossad chief, who yesterday faced calls for his resignation.
There is a piece of folklore often repeated about him: when he was appointed in 2002, Ariel Sharon, then the Prime Minister, ordered him to run the Israeli spy agency with a knife between its teeth. Eight years on, Mr Dagan appears to have followed his orders to the letter. The killing in Dubai of one of the top men in Hamas is only the most recent in a string of assassinations that have been traced to Mr Dagan.
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: assassination; chief; dagan; fatah; fatahversushamas; hamas; hamasversusfatah; israelssuperhero; meirdagan; mossad; notmossad; palestinianauthority; palestinians; savemeir; streetfighter; superhero
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posted on
02/18/2010 10:35:24 AM PST
by
Nachum
To: Nachum
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posted on
02/18/2010 10:38:38 AM PST
by
edcoil
(If I had 1 cent for every dollar the government saved, Bill Gates and I would be friends.)
To: edcoil
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posted on
02/18/2010 10:43:01 AM PST
by
wordsofearnest
(Job 19:25 As for me, I know my Redeemer lives.)
To: Nachum
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posted on
02/18/2010 10:43:45 AM PST
by
pnh102
(Regarding liberalism, always attribute to malice what you think can be explained by stupidity. - Me)
To: Nachum
My first thought on this was, why are they trying to find these assassins? They just did the world a huge favor.
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posted on
02/18/2010 10:44:33 AM PST
by
MsLady
(If you died tonight, where would you go? Salvation, don't leave earth without it!)
To: Nachum
What ever happened to Ariel Sharon? The last I knew was a couple of years ago, he was still in a coma.
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posted on
02/18/2010 10:46:06 AM PST
by
YellowRoseofTx
(Evil is not the opposite of God; it's the absence of God)
To: YellowRoseofTx
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posted on
02/18/2010 10:48:28 AM PST
by
edcoil
(If I had 1 cent for every dollar the government saved, Bill Gates and I would be friends.)
To: YellowRoseofTx
I think he is still in a coma...
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posted on
02/18/2010 10:50:59 AM PST
by
Nachum
(The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
To: Nachum
It’s normal for Mossad to wipe out terrorists one by one, usually by sniper and sometimes with heroic long shots. The thing not typical about this time is the scope and style of the operation. Some newbies join the organization who were James Bond fans? It get farmed out to some other group?
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posted on
02/18/2010 10:52:59 AM PST
by
HiTech RedNeck
(I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
To: Nachum
"We sleep soundly in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm." WSC
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posted on
02/18/2010 11:02:43 AM PST
by
TonyInOhio
( Professor Corpseman)
To: Nachum
Mossads rumoured involvement in the assassination of Hezbollah security chief Imad Mughniyah in February 2008. Talk of other killings of senior Hezbollah and Hamas officials began to spread. An alleged strike by Israeli planes on Syrian targets in September 2007 was also credited to him, part of his focus on nuclear weapons programmes in the Middle East. Don't forget the MV Arctic Sea.
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posted on
02/18/2010 11:03:10 AM PST
by
Sax
To: Nachum
WE should be doing what HE is doing.
He is RIGHT ON.
Why the hell should any nation respect the borders of another country which is granting asylum to a mudering bastard who plots attacks against its civlians?
Dubai, like most other Islamic “nations” is a desert sheikdom, in bed with Islamic terrorists. They have no right to claim nationhood, in the sense that term is understood in the west, than the man in the moon.
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posted on
02/18/2010 11:10:44 AM PST
by
ZULU
(Hey Obama, how DO you pronounce "corpsman"?????)
To: Nachum
I don’t think the Mossad exists. These Pallie terrorists are dying from a airborne lead virus.
To: 2nd Amendment
their inbreeding, and consequent feral behavior, makes them susceptible..
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posted on
02/18/2010 11:19:18 AM PST
by
sheik yerbouty
( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
To: ZULU
>> WE should be doing what HE is doing.
You’re kidding, right? Our CIA is now an incompetent band of rag-tag politically-correct wussies. Valerie Plame is their prototype. Even if they knew what to do, they don’t have the skill or will to carry it out.
We’d have to clean the whole nest out and man up first. That might take some time.
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02/18/2010 11:26:10 AM PST
by
Nervous Tick
(Eat more spinach! Make Green Jobs for America!)
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posted on
02/18/2010 3:45:48 PM PST
by
SJackson
(In wine there is wisdom, In beer there is freedom, In water there is bacteria.)
To: YellowRoseofTx
PM Sharon had a stroke December 18,2005. As far as I know he is still comatose.
I remember because I had a stroke January 18, 2006.
I had bleeding and swelling in the brain , but was not on blood thinner as was Sharon.
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posted on
02/18/2010 4:04:12 PM PST
by
BARLF
To: BARLF; YellowRoseofTx
Correction
Sharon first stroke was December 18, 2005. Second stroke Thursday, January 5, 2006.
Sorry for the error.
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posted on
02/18/2010 4:16:43 PM PST
by
BARLF
To: Valentine_W
To: Nachum
They should give him a promotion and a raise.
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posted on
02/18/2010 4:53:39 PM PST
by
tutstar
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