Mahmoud al-Mabhouh Was Sedated Before Being Suffocated, Dubai Police Say

London Times ^ | February 28, 2010 | Hugh Tomlinson

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February 28, 2010 Mahmoud al-Mabhouh Was Sedated Before Being Suffocated, Dubai Police Say Hugh Tomlinson, Dubai

There were no signs that al-Mabhouh resisted his killers, police said The Hamas commander Mahmoud al-Mabhouh was injected with a strong sedative before being suffocated in his hotel room by suspected Mossad agents, Dubai police have revealed.

The results of a toxicology report released today show that the Hamas commander was paralysed by an injection of succinylcholine, a fast-acting muscle relaxant. He was then suffocated with a pillow.

Succinylcholine is used in intensive care to assist the insertion of a tracheal tube in emergency treatment of conditions such as stroke, burns and drowning. The drug does not induce loss of consciousness or anaesthesia, meaning that al-Mabhouh would have been conscious but unable to struggle as he was suffocated.

Major General Khamis Mattar Al Mazeina, deputy commander of Dubai police, said that the drug would have caused “immediate and temporary paralysis” of the victim.

"The assassins used this method so that it would seem that his death was natural. There were no signs of resistance shown by the victim," he said.

[votemout]

Thank God he wasn’t waterboarded!

[Marty62]

Well at least he was spoken to harshly or insulted.

NOW that would have been cause for outrage.

[JPG]

Rule #1...Randomly kill Jews and you will meet your maker sooner than expected.

[YellowRoseofTx]

Mahmoud al-Mabhouh Was Sedated Before Being Suffocated

Are we supposed to care?

[240B]

I understand that they read his Miranda rights first, so all the Democrats are good with it.

[tet68]

Mahmoud al-Mabhouh Was Sedated Before Being Suffocated

At least it was a humane death.

Too bad they couldn’t get any intel from him, but then
again, maybe they did.

[Carley]

And then he got up, locked the door and put the security chain on the door.

[Tijeras_Slim]

The drug does not induce loss of consciousness or anaesthesia, meaning that al-Mabhouh would have been conscious but unable to struggle as he was suffocated.

Hope he appreciated every second.

[Gurn]

Bravo, Gideon’s Sword. Nice work, fellas.

[Bringbackthedraft]

At least they were being considerate. A silenced 22 cal. pistol would have worked just as well.

[chiefqc]

Is there adown side to this anywhere?

[contrarian]

Using anectine (lasts about 5 minutes, though this is possibly dose dependent) is not the best drug to use as Pavulon would last longer and get the same result.
Far be it from me to try to tell the so called perpetrators how to do their job as they were obviously successful in the endeavor.

[hennie pennie]

Drip, drip, drip.... Dubai keeps releasing tiny microbytes about the stupid terrorist jerk who met his due; drip, drip, drip, the police commissioner is making a fool of himself and has lost all credibility with western LEOs; drip, drip, drip --- and still not one shred of actual evidence linking any of this to Israel and/or the Mossad.

I heard an expert on targeted assassinations state very clearly that this hit bore all the markings of the ex-KGB red mafia Russian mob.

[Bean Counter]

Sounds like the same kind of the way they “sedated” Rasputin with a club....before they hanged, strangled, poisoned, castrated, burned and otherwise disposed of him...

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

They wanted it to look like a natural death, though that mitigates the deterrent effect. The entire team was out of Dubai by the time his body was discovered and it took three weeks before they stumbled on to the fact that it was not a natural death.

I wonder if MOSSAD tipped off the Dubai police after the team was safely home, else why bother?

One the stories that Bob Woodward supposedly got from the dieing Bill Casey was about what happened after Hezbollah kidnapped a Russian diplomat in Lebanon. The cousins of the kidnappers were found with a bullet in the brain and their penises sowed into their mouths. Casey was reported to have remarked, “The KGB speaks Hezbollah’s language.”

[OldSmaj]

Who the hell cares how he died?

The point is: He's DEAD, DEAD, DEAD.

(Good riddance to bad rubbish.)

[rawcatslyentist]

When will we ever become civilized enough to just use dull rusty knives on the throat like they do?

We're such savages. /s

[outofsalt]

Succs to be him!
Actually, it has a long enough duration that a pillow would be redundant> paralysis in less than 1 minute duration of about 5 minutes. brain death in ~4. Wide awake and alert for the first couple of minutes but unable to do anything about it.

[lmr]

His assassins were most efficient and thorough.

Great work.