Saturday, March 27, 2010

More Questions On The Dubai Assassination (A Commentary)



More Questions About The Dubai Assassination -- Wall Street Journal

What was a senior Hamas figure doing in a city infamous for Iranian arms trade?

James Jesus Angleton, the legendary CIA counterintelligence chief, once discussed a series of suspicious deaths in Germany with me. "Any gang of thugs could murder someone," he said, "but it took an intelligence services to make a murder appear to be a suicide or natural death."

According to this precept, the assassination of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in Dubai on the evening of Jan. 19, 2010, was almost certainly the work of an intelligence service. When Mabhouh's body was discovered the next day in his room in the five-star Al Bustan Rotana hotel, it appeared he'd died in bed of natural causes. There were no wounds, bruises or other signs of foul play.

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My Comment: With time, all of these questions will (probably) be answered. But what intrigues me is that of the 26 suspected Mossad agents involved in this plot, why did 2 of them go to Iran by boat when they left the country?

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