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ABCNews -- .....One Israeli columnist and authority on Israel's intelligence organizations says that all of Mossad's foreign operations similar to the one it is accused of in Dubai are carried out by a special unit called Kidon, Hebrew for dagger. The unit consists of a few dozen men and women who receive rigorous and specialized training including unarmed combat, weapons training, high-speed driving of both cars and motorcycles, and the field craft of trailing suspects without detection. Kidon operatives only work on short contracts of a few years because the work is so stressful. The agents regularly undergo extensive psychological...

Two Palestinians suspected of collaborating with Israel could provide the first concrete evidence linking Tel Aviv to the assassination of a senior Hamas leader. The killing has prompted an international row over the theft of identities from European citizens to provide false passports for the assassins during their mission to kill Mahmoud alMabhouh at his Dubai hotel. Britain, France, Germany and Ireland have all demanded an account of Israel’s role in the fraud, believed to be the work of the Mossad spy agency. The Dubai operation would be the first time that it had been revealed to have used the...

Evidence is mounting in Dubai that Israel assassinated Hamas terrorist Mahmoud al-Mabhouh. That is not so surprising. What is surprising is that the operation was helped by Fatah members. Who says that the Israelis and Palestinians cannot work together? it is fair to say that no "national liberation movement" thoroughly infiltrated by their enemy has ever been successful, and the Palestinian Authority will be no exception. However, the corrupt Fatah thugocracy in the West Bank (as opposed to the death-worshipers of Hamas who run the Gaza Strip) is about to turn that wisdom on its head. You see, for Fatah...

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) - Hamas legislator Salah Bardawil said al-Mabhouh unwittingly led his attackers to him by openly planning his travels - a move that would make him easily traceable if he were already under surveillance. "Al-Mabhouh called his family by phone before he traveled to Dubai and told them of his plan to stay in a specific hotel, and he....