Wednesday, January 19, 2011

The Anatomy Of Mossad's Dubai Operation And The Killing Of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh

CCTV footage shows suspected Mossad hit men getting out of a lift. Photo from ABC News.net

An Eye For An Eye: The Anatomy Of Mossad's Dubai Operation -- Spiegel Online

In the spring of 1989, a Palestinian terrorist murdered an Israeli soldier. Twenty years later in Dubai, the Israeli secret service agency Mossad avenged the killing. The operation succeeded, but nevertheless has become a fiasco. SPIEGEL has reconstructed the attack. By SPIEGEL Staff

He knew that he was a dead man. From the moment he shot the Israeli soldier sitting on the car seat behind him in the face, he knew that they would get him sooner or later.

For Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, it would take 20 years for that day to come. At about noon on Jan. 20, 2010, employees at the Al Bustan Rotana airport hotel in Dubai opened the door of room 230 to find the body of a man on the bed. According to the death certificate, the cause of death was "brain hemorrhage."

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My Comment: This is one of the best reports that I have read on the Israeli assassination of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in Dubai .... read it all.

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