More mystery
“Dubai police have publicly voiced surprise that such a figure within Hamas was traveling without his own security”
There are only two things that would make him do that. First, he is meeting with someone that if seen might jeopardize his existence in the world of Hamas. Secondly... a woman.
I caught that, but I don’t buy it.
Nowadays, there would have been security, but it wouldn’t have been as overt as a secret service detail would be.
I guy like him, traveling alone, wouldn’t have even been able to take a cell phone with him nowadays. That’s how good surveillance has become. Even a prepaid phone can be used to paint a target once you know who he or she is.
For someone this prominent to travel without a detail of any kind, the subject would have had to have gone very heavily disguised. For a Muslim, a change of gender would have been very easy to pull off. In fact, a member of your detail could have been disguised as the husband of the subject to enhance both security and cover.
The subject could have just gotten careless I guess, but who knows. All I know is that for a team to get this guy, have the time to interrogate, and then kill the subject in the hotel room in a Muslim country is pretty amazing. A good get, as it were.