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Have Assassins, Will Travel

Hotel Carlyle.  

Critical details from sources point to the Dubai operation as an interrogation as well as assassination.

Spoke to Larry Johnson, No Quarter, who is ex-Agency, and he underlined that the Hamas gangster Al-Mabhouh was sloppy, cocky, lazy not to travel with his bodyguards, not to choose a room with an access to an exit, not to secure a suite with no side doors.

My information is that Al-Mabhouh talked and talked before he was executed.

The Dubai authorities who made this CCTV thriller left out their own breaches. Where was hotel security to check on a high profile target?

Al-MAbhouh frequently stayed at this hotel. And yet the CCTV does not show the TV banks in the hotel security room, nor does it include the detail that the corpse was deliberately left behind rather than being disappeared. Why?

B. Raman asks the question, was Dubai security in on the operation?  Was this an inside job?  Was the mission impossible team hired by rival gun-runners?

The sweeping assumption is that it was a Mossad operation.  An operation of this exactitude could easily have been outsourced to a team that just takes assignments.

The coolness of the players suggest that this is a routine caper.  Chilling to consider that the team is for hire.  The Russians are this good.  So are the Germans.  Why use nationals when you can use internationals?

I enjoy the ceremonial protest of the British, Irish and French dignitaries.  Round up the usual suspects.  Blame the Jews.  Condemn this act of terrorism.  Scold and bloviate and blame-shift and deceive.

  • Hokma

    The sweeping assumption is that it was a Mossad operation.

    I just read that Hamas is blaming Fatah for the assasination. That wouldn’t be surprising either.

    Either way you are right. Al-Mabhouh was sloppy. It was not as if he was the Hamas accountant who one would never think would be a target. It seems any professional hit team could have done this easily.

  • creeper

    We need to find an e-mail address for this team and forward it to the White House.  Maybe THEY could get OBL.

  • EllenD

    Yes, the details were interesting and the more I hear the more questions I have.

    I hear the identities used were Israeli/British real people. Wouldn’t that be the very identities you would choose in order to blame it on Mossad and the least likely Mossad would have chosen?

    Leaving the body behind with signs that he had been interrogated. Is this a message to someone?

    This guy frequently stayed at this hotel. Presumably under the same assumed name otherwise the staff might notice. Did he always travel without bodyguards? If so, wasn’t he concerned with this pattern of behavior? And if he wasn’t, was it because he thought he always had reliable security coverage in Dubai? But this time he didn’t?

    I’m sorry I missed Larry’s interview.

  • mortuus lark

    John Batchelor said, I enjoy the ceremonial protest of the British, Irish and French dignitaries.  Round up the usual suspects.  Blame the Jews.  Condemn this act of terrorism.  Scold and bloviate and blame-shift and deceive.

    So you have a problem with representative government, no? You expect citizens to be subjected to maccabre conspiracies because they oppose a cause of a certain kind and for everyone to shut their windows and doors and for the sheriff to go back to his coffee.


    These are the things that define who we are. Are we going to give the okay to assassins settling scores because those assassins are good guys and they assessinated our enemy.

    Love your enemy is out the window for good. Kill your enemy is what we all need to be about.


    What the video is showing is the question of identity. Whare are these coming from, what are their values and do their values and identities match the values and identities that they purport to represent.

    Because if you look at each one of them, they do not have a sign on their forehead that says, “I’m an assassin.” No. They represent a normal people loving person who goes out to do some kind of business for the benefit of society. They are not dressed in military uniform.

    Now when we go out the question is are we assassins too. Because it is obvious that the cameras are there to record identities. Identities of decent human beings. And now everyone of us becomes a suspect. When we go to an airport now we are believed by TSA that we too can be hiding an identity that is not the one we purport to represent.

    So this is a stain on our entire society. And we can’t clean that stain just that easily anymore. We have to live with it. And then our children and our parents and our spouses are also suspects. Swab everyone. Check the carriage and luggage of everybody.

    Who are we? Are we what we represent to be? Our government need to represent us. They need to represent our good morals and decency values and respect for life and liberty and freedom. They need to denounce that type of activity as foreign to who and what we are. That is not who we are or what we are. That is strange to us. And we need to denounce it and condemn it – we honorable and decent citizens of the U.S. And we need to encourage Britain, Ireland and France to get to the bottom of what went on and to express how those people are foreign to our way of life.

    mortuus lark

  • morris1030

    Whoever did this….Bravo!  But this kind of planning and knowledge of their target suggests an intelligence operation of real skill. it could have been hit pros from a rival group, or from israel or another country or countries who were in on it.   That the body was left was either because more expedient- and easier for assassins to exit, or as a message  for those  terrorist gun runners contemplating this example to stay away.

     I seriously doubt that we had anything to do with this. Obama doesn’t know from anything this sophisticated nor does he believe that this should happen.

  • Craig Della Penna

    One less scumbag to spread misery around the earth – I don’t care who waxed him: nice job.

  • arabella trefoil

    I’m  surprised Obama isn’t bowing and scraping and apologizing to the world about this. An innocent businessman, an entrepreneur trying to jump start the world economy, tortured and killed by racists. Why? Because the innocent businessman had a “funny last name.”

    Bitter white southerners cling to their guns and their religion, and Americans think that’s OK. But let a non-white seek to share guns (crates and crates of them) and somehow that’s wrong? Americans are so racist.

    And probably they didn’t even leave a chocolate on Al-Mabhouh’s pillow.

    Whitey’s on the moon.

  • mortuus lark

    The Nursery Quarters is open for all the children to play.

    Lets give three cheers to the assassins.

    Hip Hip Hurray. Hip Hip Hurray. Hip Hip Hurray.

  • mortuus lark

    The Nursery Quarters is open for all the children to play. 
     
    Lets give three cheers to the assassins. 
     
    Hip Hip Hurray. Hip Hip Hurray. Hip Hip Hurray.

    That was easy: Staples

  • Retired

    Before he talked, was he advised of his Constitutional right to remain silient?  Apparently not,  Still, he talked.  I wonder why?

  • oowawa

    Perhaps they threatened him with the comfy chair!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnS49c9KZw8

  • candymarl

    Oh give me a break. All of the governments involved had this stuff planned in advance. Any “investigations” are for show. The intelligence agencies from all of these countries knew exactly what they were doing.  But it makes for good theater. Why kill someone that gave you everything you wanted? Please.

  • oowawa

    “Why kill someone that gave you everything you wanted?”

    Well, referring to all the cliche movie plots stored in my memory, I have a possible answer:

    Because dead men tell no tales.

  • UM

    Why is the killing of an Hamas arms dealing thug of any importance to anybody?

  • arabella trefoil

    How did we find out that “he talked”?

  • sowsear

    My disjointed reaction to this comes in two parts:
    1. I don’t want to know the details
    2. The 4th monkey is Do No Evil

  • oowawa

    We found out from John Batchelor who got it from undisclosed sources, identified only as “my information.”

  • oowawa

    We found out from John Batchelor who got it from undisclosed sources, identified in the article as “my information.”

  • oowawa

    Right sowsear–if you knew the details, “they” would have to kill you.

  • oowawa

    Well, it’s important to the MSM so that they can provide a brief break in the reporting of the Tiger Woods mea culpa extravaganza.

  • arabella trefoil

    If this guy knew there were people out there who wanted him dead (not just Mossad, maybe business rivals) what was he doing walking around without body guards?

    A guy like him has to have lots of enemies and not only political ones. He went out to dinner (there’s no record of him eating in the hotel) so was he walking around on the streets by himself?

    I know nothing about espionage, black ops, or kill teams, but even I know not to expose myself to danger when I go about my daily business.

    In tai chi, when you are ready to learn the martial arts stuff you learn the that the first rule of self defense – don’t look like a victim. Be aware of your surroundings. etc. 

  • arabella trefoil

    Tiger Woods would be ther world’s shittiest spy. Look at all those voice mails he left on his girl friend’s cell phones? Plus he’s drug addled. How can you be a good agent if you’re fucked up on ambien.

    Also, Woods folds under pressure. All the enemy would have to do is send in a blonde with a golf club, and Tiger Woods would confess anything, even stuff he didn’t do.

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  • buzzlatte

    I’m shocked I tell you!  Shocked!

    Maybe Hollywood doesn’t make all that stuff up.

  • buzzlatte

    I’m shocked I tell you!  Shocked!

    Maybe Hollywood doesn’t make all that stuff up after all.

    Is it inappropriate to say, “Good Riddance”?

  • EllenD

    Hey oowaw. I’m a fan of Pirates of the Caribbean too.

    Because dead men tell no tales.

  • Mr.Murder

    Syria is already getting concessions resulting from this.
    Perhaps we outsourced someone to a target that was perceived to be a hedge against consoldiating one side of the item so we could get closer?

    His whereabouts being a known known, and who replaces him, is that person someone easier to monitor?

    In his departure they probably cosolidate more authority to others, making it easier to define an enemy or to go forward with actual political levers.

    So for two objectives you remove a hedge. Now there is resulting burnback, political fallout, something that should have been anticipated and if done so could really accelerate communications.

    Get a gangster type out, get a leader type in, talk with the leader.

  • Guest11

    Craig della Penna: My thoughts exactly!!

  • AnnieCarmel

    This is a joke right?

  • AnnieCarmel

    Or the line from one of my favorite John Casavete films, “Gloria”, “I’ll kill anyone who tries to kill me.”  Gena Rowlands, my favorite pistol packin’ Mama.

  • AnnieCarmel

    Or the line from one of my favorite John Casavetes films, “Gloria”, “I’ll kill anyone who tries to kill me.”  Gena Rowlands, my favorite pistol packin’ Mama.

  • AnnieCarmel

    WTH, I don’t even go over to Salinas.  Too many drive-bys, and gangsters out on the streets.

  • AnnieCarmel

    Yeah, and if he apologizes to the Porn “Star”, I’m finished with watching Tiger play golf!  Ambulance chaser, Allred becomes more pathetic than her “victims” with every passing adulturer.

  • mortuus lark

    Have Assassins Will Travel is a video of what we as a society have become. It is a sad depiction of ourselves.

  • mortuus lark

    Have Assassins, Will Travel is a picture of what we as a society have become. It is a horrific depiction of ourselves. That is the reason the government of Dubai released the 30 minute clip so that we can see ourselves in it. Clearly NQ for example is there. Clearly many of the characters that we represent in NQ are represented in the 30 minute clip.

    In this clip our society is represented. It is interesting to see Israel represented in its Ambassador to England. Clearly he represent a mockery of the God who loves him and seeks his return to his bossom. He will be rejected by his God and punish by his God. God will be punishing the people of Israel alongside with us for our behavior and for what we have become in spite of all his blessings, love and mercy. We have become the contrary of God’s character. When the day of Lord comes, we will be punished by a just and loving God and destroyed as a punishment for our sins. Repent, the end is near.

  • ~~JustMe~~

    You need to go mortuus lark, you spew so much rubbish the best thing you could do is start praying and ask God to forgive you!

  • Obama: Dubya 2 Electric Boogaloo

    Whitey’s on MSNBC…

    ..but to the topic, what a gripping video! Thanks for posting that NQ.

  • mountainaires

    The comments in this thread are laughable. Do any of you have the faintest clue about anything? Would you think it was such a successful op if you had a clue? I doubt it. 

    For example, innocent people had their passports expropriated for this Mossad op. Some Israelis, some Brits, some Irish. 

    But also, 5 American bank credit cards were expropriated too. What if one of them was YOURS? Would you be applauding then? 

    Think you’d want to know why you suddenly were added to the Terrorist Watch List? 

    http://mondoweiss.net/2010/02/did-israelis-gain-dubai-victims-confidence-by-selling-hamas-weapons.html

  • Steve1

    What goes around, comes around.  Terroists “suck!”

  • califlety

    I just spoke woth God and he tells me you’ve got it all wrong.

  • califlety

    I just spoke with God (by email) and he assures me the punishment will be coming earlier for those who speak in his name. I’m watching my back, how about you?

  • Jenny

    Kul kalb biji yumo.

  • mortuus lark

    I agree mountairaires.

  • mortuus lark

    I agree mountairaires. There is tons of stuff to talk about there – important stuff – but who cares, no? Is better to keep this place as Nursery Quarters.

  • mortuus lark

    In this video supplied by J Batchelor, from second 37 to second 51 we see God’s judgment on Israel. Genesis 4:10 says, “The LORD said, “What have you done? Listen! Your brother’s blood cries out to me from the ground.”

    Here Israel’s Ambasador is giving the same exact answer Cain gave God when God asked Cain about the fate of his brother. Cain gave God the same answer.

    But since these assassins represented Western culture, then the curse of God is extended from Israel to those in the Western world who approve of assassination as a way to obtain the elusive peace that we so desperately seek to reach.

    If you look and hear the Israeli Ambasador you can see that his attitude and his way of answering for this crime will be the same way that Israel and the West will be answering to God in the day of judgment. His words are the exact words those who kill their brothers will use to answer God.

    God gives us this snippets of judgment day so that we will have no excuse in the day of judgment. Of course we pay no attention.

  • mortuus lark

    The Muslims put out video of those type of conspiracies to let us know that we will not be able to beat Islam when our moral character is that degraded.

  • mortuus lark

    The Muslims put out video of those type of conspiracies to let us know that we will not be able to beat Islam when our moral character is that degraded. And our culture will not stand if we protect assassins and have them in high regard.

  • mountainaires

    The innocent victims of Mossad: 

    They’ve all been warned that now, their lives are in danger, as well as those of their famiies. 

    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/fake-identity-brits-warned-that-their-lives-are-in-danger-1905971.html

  • mortuus lark

    I kill you, you kill me
    We’are a happy family
    with a great big hug and a kiss from me
    will you say you kill me too

  • mountainaires

    “Bravo!”  :-E

    Israel has now put innocent people’s lives at risk. You could be one of them, and are too clueless to realize it. 

    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703315004575072990898044002.html

    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/fake-identity-brits-warned-that-their-lives-are-in-danger-1905971.html

  • mortuus lark

    What’s important here is how the Israeli Ambasador mimics and shadows Cain when Cain was confronted by God about the killing of his brother.

  • mortuus lark

    In addition to that, when you visit Israel and you are profiled by Israeli’s wonderful and marvellous system of profiling, you will not know if the person porfiling you is an assassin. Assassins profiling honorable citizens. I hope you love it.

  • bayareavoter

    Mountainaires–you always love to blame the Israelis. But did you read what Ellen D wrote up top?

    I hear the identities used were Israeli/British real people. Wouldn’t that be the very identities you would choose in order to blame it on Mossad and the least likely Mossad would have chosen?

    It sounds so “well executed” we easily assume Mossad may have done it. But they have screwed up before.

    As John Batchelor says in the post

    The coolness of the players suggest that this is a routine caper.  Chilling to consider that the team is for hire.  The Russians are this good.  So are the Germans.  Why use nationals when you can use internationals?

    We don’t know who did it or how many groups colluded to get it done. What’s so different about this assasination than our use of drones targeting Taliban leaders who we don’t like? At least this guy gave up some valuable intelligence and there were no innocent civilians killed by accident along with him.

    Good riddance.

  • ciic
  • Guest

    Might the fact that no Italian passports were forged have something to do with the Israeli criminals being prosecuted in absentia?

  • Guest

    Agreed, the intelligence agencies knew.  That’s probably why they didn’t mess with any Italian passports. 

  • Guest

    Who cares about Tiger Woods?  He’s ugly and he looks just like his mother. 

  • Guest

    Israel has always been responsible for all identity theft everywhere. 

  • Guest

    I hear those dual British/Israeli’s are worried and scared.  Were they worried and scared in 1948 when Great Britain gave Palestinian land to Israel? 

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