The powerful, shadowy Mossad chief Meir Dagan is a ‘streetfighter’

Timesonline ^ | 2/18/10 | Sheera Frenkel

[Nachum]

The brazen assassination of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh has thrown the spotlight on one of Israel’s 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.

[edcoil]

Saw this on NCIS.

[wordsofearnest]

Donatella Rahn bump

[pnh102]

This guy is cool.

[MsLady]

My first thought on this was, why are they trying to find these assassins? They just did the world a huge favor.

[YellowRoseofTx]

What ever happened to Ariel Sharon? The last I knew was a couple of years ago, he was still in a coma.

[edcoil]

Still is, since 2006:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariel_Sharon

[Nachum]

I think he is still in a coma...

[HiTech RedNeck]

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?

[TonyInOhio]

"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

[Sax]

Mossad’s 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.

[ZULU]

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.

[2nd Amendment]

I don’t think the Mossad exists. These Pallie terrorists are dying from a airborne lead virus.

[sheik yerbouty]

their inbreeding, and consequent feral behavior, makes them susceptible..

[Nervous Tick]

>> 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.

[SJackson]

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[BARLF]

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.

[BARLF]

Correction

Sharon first stroke was December 18, 2005. Second stroke Thursday, January 5, 2006.

Sorry for the error.

[hennie pennie]

*ping*

[tutstar]

They should give him a promotion and a raise.