Thursday, March 4, 2010

World's Greatest Spy Capers

Images from surveillance video showed some of the people suspected of taking part in the killing of a Hamas operative, Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, in January. The Dubai police quickly unraveled the plot and identified 26 suspects, in a display of transparency that is almost unheard of in the Arab world. Dubai Police, via Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

From Newsweek:

From the moment Mahmoud al-Mabhouh stepped off a plane in Dubai on Jan. 20, his killers—probably from Israel’s Mossad—had him in their sights. Al-Mabhouh, a senior Hamas official who had arrived from Damascus allegedly to arrange an arms shipment to Gaza, perished hours later in his room at the Al Bustan Rotana hotel, electrocuted and strangled by the seven men who were waiting for him after a day following him around Dubai. The assassins covered their tracks well. They flew in from Paris, Frankfurt, Rome, and Zurich on forged passports. They wore disguises. They switched hotels multiple times. They carried cell phones but never called each other directly.

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My Comment: An interesting list, some of which I had forgotten a long time ago.

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