Have Assassins, Will Travel
By John Batchelor on February 19, 2010 at 5:00 PM in Current Affairs
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.






















