Arrest Head of Mossad, Dubai Police Chief Says

The Telegraph ^ | 18 Feb 2010 | Gordon Rayner and Martin Evans

[Neophyte]

Arabs helping to kill another Arab? What's new? They do it all the time, and they sell each other cheaply... not so much because of matters political, but more eh... on anthropological grounds.

The whole story looks like a clumsy Arab plot to me. Arab countries, starting from the top-dog Saudis, hate the influence of Iran in the region. Hamas (or was it hummus?) is backed mainly by Tehran, and the deceased scoundrel was on his way exactly there, right? So, if other towel-heads needed to send a clear message to the Palis, there was no better way than to stop him in the tracks.

To try and blame the whole business on Israelis is just a bonus. But, as I told, a very clumsy try: stolen identities the Mossad does use, but only really silly teenagers would choose, out of six billion world inhabitants, the ones so easily traceable back to Israel.

So, this detail is obviously was conceived by the very professional Dubai plotters.

And anyway, do we have any proof that the group in question has indeed seen that Muhammad What's His Name out to the 70 virgins, except the statements of the Dubai Police Chief?

[Mark17]

Arrest Head of Mossad, Dubai Police Chief Says

How many divisions does he have at his disposal?

[Neophyte]

The guy died of suffocation. One could use a curtains' rope for that purpose, there are plenty of them in hotels, don't you think?

[Leisler]

Who do you think kept his bodyguards out of the country? (Dubai is shocked, shocked I tell you!)

[pnh102]

The guy died of suffocation. One could use a curtains' rope for that purpose, there are plenty of them in hotels, don't you think?

Ohhh... makes sense now. :)

[SeaHawkFan]

How ironic that the terrorist was also using a false identity.

Dubai is simply posturing and they really don’t care that this guy was eliminated.

[SeaHawkFan]

The British are complaining? There was a time when the British were the masters of operations like this. No country was better at it.

[70th Division]

Arab Spin. Perfect analogy. I agree if Mosad did it they would have never been seen.

[greatplains]

The Palestinians are generally quite happy to help their fellow Israelis. Whatever.

[SJackson]

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Good luck Dubai. You've arrested three palestinians already (palestinians???), settle for that.

[lmr]

One could use a curtains' rope for that purpose, there are plenty of them in hotels, don't you think?

I am certain the assassins had a better plan than that, probably with multiple methods of their choosing. I am also certain they brought their implements with them, 'kits', and it was probably relatively innocuous stuff in case they were searched.

[lmr]

Second they not only got caught they actually allowed for a minute by minute surveillance of almost the entire team. The Mossad can’t be that stupid nor that pathetic.

Cameras are everywhere these days. It's virtually unavoidable, especially when the assassins aren't on their home turf. They knew this, that's why they wore disguises.

[lmr]

Hamas (or was it hummus?) is backed mainly by Tehran

Hamas is mostly backed by Syria now. Iraq gave them immense backing when Saddam was in power. Hezbollah, on the other hand, is the terrorist arm of Iran.