Haaretz probe: Dubai assassins' passport photos were doctored

Palestinian passports sponsored by France while looking to sign off on a huge French arms deal to Palestine ,it figures?

why all the hullaballoo that it was the mossad? what if it was not them?.... they should be loving at us. am not with you guys.IT WAS NOT MOSSAD.I suspect the Dubai police chief who thinks security issues r politics.

For me the hit was done by old SAVAK guys from Tehran maybe assisted by their old friends from KGB. Two flys with one slap: kill an enemy and put the blame on ha-Mossad le-Modiin ule-Tafkidim Meyuhadim. Nils

actually 78 !!

Israel gets the blame for all and everything / the Mossad is a very intelingent and experient on these matters . no way they would use so many people for a hit of 1 man that became a mickey mouse kind of a situation ! Dubai should be looking somewhere else , what a joke the Dubai police

Naturally it did not take 26 people to kill him, but if they knew he was comming to Dubai, but did not know how or where he might stay it would be useful to have as many foot soldiers as possible.

It does look similar to 9/11. Altered passports, huge crime, no trace. Mossad has done it again and blame the Arabs to be stupid. Wake up Sheiks, control your stronghold before it is altered.

Good luck people escaping We have more than 300 million Arabs looking fpr those agents, I suspect they will be at large for long, I will make sure to print the list with pictures on all the websites I know.... LOL

all the 30 plus agents are exposed and we americans will have to foot the bill to make new ones for Israel. It is time to wean this roudy baby

I still think Hamas or the PA threw this terrorist a retirement party but if Mossad did do the operation we can be assured that no European country will expose the real assassins. Mabhouh's body showed signs of electrocution, an effective torture method, so if Mossad debriefed him all the passport issuing countries will secretly be rubbing their hands together in anticipation of what was learned while feeding the press their 'grave' concerns about passport fraud.

and i certainly have my doubts. The world much better off without Mabhouh and any with like mind and philosophy....keep up the good , nasty work of dealing with scum of the earth terrorists such as Mabhouh.

with that url. And even if he did --he is deathly scared of truth. He is still living in the year 1922. Regards

isnt it strange, that those pictures were plastered all over the planet, but NOBODY came forward to say "I have been in school with the person aka gail" "the guy on the kevin-passport had been living in my street for 3 years" the whole world studied their photographs, but really nobody knows ANY of them ? its strange, isnt it...?

A correction to my earlier posting. It was not just the written press in Australia but also the TV that prominently featured Israel's use of forged foreign passports. Sky News, the Rupert Murdoch owned TV channel, gave as much time, if not more, to this story of forgery and the reaction of the Australian government, than it did to the winning of the gold medal in the Olympics by Australian Lydia Lassila. And it should be noted that Murdoch is a strong supporter of Israel. If is channels are reporting the displeasure with Israel it is not hard to imagine what less friendly venues are saying. Australia is not pleased with Israel. The Israeli ambassador was called in. Perhaps Australia should recall its ambassador from Israel and stop supporting a country that obviously holds it in contempt - as the Australian foreign minister so accurately noted - every half an hour on Sky News.

Quote " the Australian foreign minister said, this shows that Israel is showing contempt for other countries. I can`t agree more.' Syria made clear to Australia that Australia must support the OIC-Arab League interests against Israel , if Australia want the OIC-Arab League support for Australia bid for a seat in the 10 non permanent UNSC members . Google such Australia bid and read what that Australia news website reported . Please keep in mind and consider: woulld you like to keep your liberties and freedoms or be under the Dhimmitude servitude miseries ?

Esther and Mordecai were Benjaminites not "Jews". Jew in this context is a scribal interpolation. Most of the Jews returned with Ezra and the others. The correct name for the people is Israelite, not Jew.

"The Dubai hit could have been sponsored by terror Fatah as a vengeance against terror Hamas ." It is often argued here that Mossad could not have done the murder because Mossad is so competent that they would never leave anyone suspicious that they might have done something. Since they never ever leave any evidence, the only reason to suspect them is antisemitism. By the same reasoning, palestinians could not do it because they are always incompetent and never accomplish anything without blowing themselves up. Similarly, the Fatah guys who were detained in Dubai could not have been part of an Israeli-Fatah joint operation. Because if they were, the Israeli agents would have either gotten the Fatah guys out of the country or killed them to keep them from talking. Instead they were just clueless Fatah guys who had no idea that they might get blamed for something, who maybe didn't even hear about the murder until after they were captured.

Yesterday the front page of the Sydney Australia Telegraph featured a large article with photo of the young woman whose passport had been used by Israel. As might be expected this young woman and her family are less than pleased that her identity was stolen. She and the other two Australians whose identities were used for other than legal purposes are now afraid. I just returned from Sydney where not only the newspapers but the press featured this latest Mossad action and noticed that this was certainly not the first time that Israel has used forged passports. As the Australian foreign minister said, this shows that Israel is showing contempt for other countries. I can't agree more.

The Bible say that Moses sent 12 folks to gather specific info , they didn't kill . Mossad name is Mordechai and his secret operative is Hadass better known under the code name of Esther . They both collected info so the king could consider and decide about the actions of Haman the agathite. Haman first job was a street caller same as the Dubai khalfan obscurantism revealing his incompetence to the recording Medias . Joshua also sent folks to gather info about Jericho . What is 'nice' about that bible episode is that those folks met a woman. From there the 'red lite street' notion and the James Bond movies with his special drink and cool chiks. Most spies today seat behind a window, drink two days old coca-cola and keep records like any public clerk . Happy Purim .

once a comic always a comic !! inspector clouseau in dubai couldnt catch a cold |!!

No you can't....cause you never have!

"Let`s see if I got this right . . . the evil terrorist sneaks into Dubai with a fake passport and gets assasinated by a foreign hit team who also sneaks into Dubai on fake passports and all anyone writes about is this facetious outrage over the hit team`s violation of passport laws" It's a little late to go after the guy who got murdered over his fake passport. There's no extradition from wherever he is.

"I have to wonder whether `heckuvajob Brownie` is running Mossad these days because the idiocy and incompetence of this operation reminds me of FEMA during and after Katrina." If they say what the risks are and the boss says do it anyway, then they do it. They got it done on short notice with the materials they had on hand and nobody on their side got killed or captured. Imagine the conversation between the top Mossad guy and the political guy who gives them their orders. "We can do this and probably get all our people out, but we'll leave evidence behind. Give us a month and we can set it up better." "Would this evidence actually matter?" "Hard to say. We probably wouldn't have to retire any agents. But it might have diplomatic consequences." "OK. You take care of the agent stuff and I'll deal with the diplomatic stuff. The operation is on." No matter how competent they are they have to do what the political guys tell them to, to the best of their abilities.

Good analysis,and I bet you the Dubais are having a good laugh at it all themselves (In PRIVATE)of course because it is beyond belief and too ridiculous into the bargain. That they have to keep it up a bit longer shows their desperation...and shamed it happend on THEIR SOIL. Anything for a LAUGH.But this going way too far.

Interpol holds all facial recognition, fingerprints and every other id association with criminals added to their wanted list. They have added the Dubai suspects to their list http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8522595.stm

as a vengeance against terror Hamas . The medias exposure has all the hallmark print of terror Fatah operations such as the hijacking of civil airliners and the assassinations of the Israeli Munich athletes . To justify its existence and funds, Terror fatah like such operations and medias exposure . We know that terror PLO-PA is behind most of the demonisation and delegitimation process against Israel . Hence the terror fatah use of Israeli names to frame Israel and direct the spotlite and investigation away from Fatah .

Interpol of course, why do you think the UK police is in Israel now?

Retinal scans are routine at Dubai. see:"Airport officials had conducted routine retinal scans of the suspects when they entered Dubai on falsified Irish, British, French and German passports. The scans should enable Interpol to identify suspects if they pass through immigration checks where retinal scans are used." Why do you think Israel is not denying the hits? lol http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2010/0219/1224264800291.html

is tragic, one can only whish the both of them lived today... Israel may or may not taken down her mortal enemy... but he was an arms seller, supplying genocidal band in Gaza... I don't remember as much sentiment in Dubai over murder of an innocent Muslim woman, whose only trouble was is that her pinky turned up in the path of brighter future of Iran satrap.

http://www.burtonsdigital.com/cctv_audio_visual_analysis_enhancement.html

Why would the Australian FM say "At this point, Smith added, there is no evidence that the three Australians whose names were used on the passports, Adam Marcus Korman, Joshua Daniel Bruce and Nicole Sandra McCabe, were implicated in the affair in any way." On the contrary there would be an immediate case against them.

Country attracts attention, questioning at least, not something,an escaping hit person would would look to go for by choice. The questioning in those countries can get very nasty very quickly.

Laugh and the world laughs with you. Cry and you cry ALONE. Stop taking everything so seriously. You never stop to take an opportunity,to lose an OPPORTUITY by laughing for once. Gee I never ever have seen/read anything whereby their is bit of humor in any of your responses. Shame

if it looks like a duck ... u know the rest..

one would know better than to talk of flawless mossad operations. one should check out Lillehammer and Meshal in Jordan to see how flawless ones memory is.

In reading the ever larger lists of "agents" being uncovered by Dubai its starting to look like a cover up by Dubai itself. Who needs 26 agents to take out one assassin in his hotel room? That's more than the number that participated in Entebe against a well guarded airport. I think Dubai is putting on a smoke screen on behalf of someone it fears a very great deal. Who that is is anyone's guess, but for sure it isn't Israel. That could be Syria, Iran, Hammas, Hezb Allah or the PA, one or all of them whacked him with Dubai's participation. Most of the "agents" in the photos look like Arabs. Many Israelis are fair complexioned, which enabled their parents to escape extermination by the EU in WW II. any intelligence service from Syria, Iran, Egypt, Jordan, Lybia or PA could have doctored the passports using travel records from Europe airlines and airports let alone via cooperation with the EU foreign services. Faking passports to implicate the Mossad was merely icing on the cake.

al-Mabhouh has already been replaced by a successor. Just like Sheik Yassin was replaced by a successor when he was assassinated. Nothing really change.

Of all the papers in the world, who would have an inside look into the operation but an Israeli paper? What is the likelihood for this? Of course, what we are seeing here is the Mossad releasing some secret "news" to trusting friends. Obviously, Mossad must be very concerned that the enormous number of agents exposed in the trivial Dubai "kill" will bring about some serious investigation into its operations, with heads rolling as a result, as Haaretz editorial is expecting. So the people who know the details begin leaking to the press. Is it true that Mossad doctored the pictures of the agents? May be, or may be not. Personally, I doubt it because such a detail did not show up in V. Ostrovsky's book which was full of details. Mossad has a special division for psychological warfare and disinformation. They are now in full battle gear and working overtime to protect their own sorry behinds. We need some real investigation into this affair.

Are of the same poison drink as the DNA type of the discredited Al Guardian claims about the Gaza mill , Or/and the telegraph fiction story about the ben gurion airport photocopied passport, Or/and the London times reported fiction story from radical leftist Israeli lier man.... Who do you think you are Haaretz ? A herald based new york tribune may give you some finance margine but certainly not credibility in Mideast matters .

gaza strip,chechnya,kashmir,xinghhua,and so man more.. more to come on america where they will tell part of us is us ,so separate state.. good people from all religion are welcome..bad people who spreaad voilence i the name religon should be cleared like this one... hindu,muslim ,jew,christian,sikh,buddist--welcome all good people..but not hatred spreaders .. go to any mms scandal ,,we see naked truth of all religion...so better of try to curb some criminals who are involved in it,than involve children for hatred against one relion from another religion... people ,,think for global warming,,deforestation,drug trafficking,immorality spreaders ,theives..not kill inncent people in the name religionn..be it be any of them...

did Mabhouh travel?

This is just spell binding. Sooo anyone when can we expect to see unassailable evidence supporting or refuting charges against mossad or any other organization or group. By the end of the decade perchance?

Police in Dubai reveal the victim's last comment made in the guest satisfaction survey. "room service is very prompt but a tad aggressive, I'd give them 6 out of ttt hhhhhuh"

How many Mossad agents does it take to change a light bulb? Apparently, if the light bulb is in Dubai, it takes a couple dozen or so. And by the way, the same computer software used to create modified photos on the passports can also be used, particularly with the nitwits who smiled for the cameras, to reconstruct close facimiles to their real appearances. Sure hope this terrorist was worth burning quite a few operatives, and wrecking the lives of all the private citizens whose identities were stolen. Not to mention further antagonizing the countries whose passports were forged. I have to wonder whether 'heckuvajob Brownie' is running Mossad these days because the idiocy and incompetence of this operation reminds me of FEMA during and after Katrina.

Terrorists move around with doctored passports and elaborate disguises...and those who chase them do the same.

There are Palestinian passports? News to me! Not that that's not as it should be.

Would you like me to post your IP address on this board.

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CCTV Cameras, dome cameras, bullet cameras, infrared cameras, PTZ cameras, Wireless and Network cameras are all fuzzy at best. Much better suited for getting recognition of types of clothing worn, hair styles, glasses-no glasses, etc. but they're not intended for facial recognition, hence the cheap price and low resolutions. Even the oil-rich Dubai government and the wealthy hoteliers won't spend a nickel more than they have to on security cameras because rarely will a criminal get up on a ladder and pose for the camera in the ceiling.

The Australians are blowing up the claims of identity theft by the Australian/Israelis. Apparently Mossad would send these people back to Australia to change their names to more anglo sounding names. That means that no one will believe the claims of identity theft by those whose passports were used. Therefore those claiming identity theft will always be suspected of being Mossad agents and may in fact get busted by their home countries for it.

What if this was all staged to incriminate Israel and also make the world believe that the guy is dead? A poor guy killed in his place, plastic surgery and the freedom to operate freely under a new identity. It's very surprising how quickly everybody knew so much and how quickly all the information was published at the risk of looking very stupid if proven wrong or just can not get to the bottom.

Holocaust deniers quibble about small points as a means of ignoring the overwhelming evidence. That is the technique being used by some folks on this forum about Dubai. Nothing sick about the comparison, but the behavior is silly.

with five fake passports and doctored pictures, we will soon learn, that it was not mabhouh that died in Dubai and that the Mossad missed its target. If at all involved.

do not like the unholy alliance between Iran, Hamas. Syria and Hisb. I bet all of Mossad was in Dubai.:)

No further comments...

It was done by his indigenous bastards !

Who are the Aussies to complain. Now what photo did Barry Humphries have on his passport Dame Edna or himself ?

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Why were so many agents needed to take out 1 man? Well, as stated by previous commentators, the agents who were watching needed to be watched in case they were being watched OR new recruits were able to use this as a training mission, which if you think about it seems logical as they need to clock up some hours don't they? The bottom line is YES, it DOES only take one agent to kill the target but that is the EASIEST part!

IF... I repeat IF... this was done by the Mossad then hats off to them for a real fancy job of espionage. The Dubai police are good..but right now they are spinning their wheels in every direction.

"Various features of the people in the photographs, such as eye color or the line of a lip, were changed - slightly enough so as not arouse suspicion at passport control, but still enough that the real agent could not be recognized. " - Haaretz Nice try, but there are plenty of non-doctored photos of the persons involved in the possession of the Dubai police, and the intelligence agencies of the world. Large scale CCTV coverage has changed the game in many nations. So has the speed with which databases can be searched and mined. In the end the search for 'suspects' came down to looking for phony passports and tracking the images back to the CCTV coverage. The sort of thing that leaves James Bond, shaken, but not stirred. Magnus Frater Te Spectat!

Folks are grasping at little quibbles to have a reason to deny what Israel isn't. It seems even most Israeli's are questioning who hit whom and why. Just the usual wink, nod and grin. The only thing that was wrong was getting caught and the agency involved actually went to an huge effort to avoid being detected by the CCTV which observed the public spaces which had to be used. Using a large number of people most of whom were only exposed intermittently and not always together might have worked had the Dubai authorities been less capable and their software older. Also the nations who's passports were forged actively cooperated in supplying the evidence of fraud. Technology overwhelmed a cocky Mossad. Instead of confusing the system it ended up providing a large block of consistent data which impeached it. You live, you learn, it isn't Mossad's first bungle. It might be wise to start thinking first and acting more prudently, but Bibi isn't capable of that.

Haaretz editors. I changed my comment a bit. My theory is as good as some of the other's I've read. It is surprising to me that you would publish some of the other comments, as caustic as they are, and not mine. Perhaps you might reconsider? The Dubai Police Chief is obsessed with finding out "who done it." Well, that's easy to prove. The events which led to Mr. M's premature death were primarily coordinated by himself, His friends are outraged and embarrassed, and perhaps a bit peeved at Mr. M's sloppy work in Dubai. Of course, they will blame others. They will manipulate the facts. They will implicate others. After all, Mr. M's carelessness has humiliated them greatly and implies some rethinking of their own clandestine activities. I am sure that if Mr. M could share with us a posthumous comment, It would be, "Oops." His premature departure is the direct result of his own actions for which he should be held accountable.

Let's see if I got this right . . . the evil terrorist sneaks into Dubai with a fake passport and gets assasinated by a foreign hit team who also sneaks into Dubai on fake passports and all anyone writes about is this facetious outrage over the hit team's violation of passport laws . . . Duh . . . Oh, I get it the hit team are JEWS! So because they are Jewish, they were supposed to call Dubai ahead of time and ask permission. "Hello, Dubai . . this is Jewish hit team captain M . . we need permission to take a hit team into your beautiful Arabian country to take out an Arab terrorist . . please . . pretty please with molasses on it.

26 people to kill one guy. Next time send in the Army.

I had the suspicion the picture on the Stephen Keith passport was created by taking half a face and completing it with its own mirror image, after which the eyes and nose were put back.

Definately we should resurrect Peter Sellers and use a little polyurethane on his face and send him to Dubai to figure out what happened here. Mike Myers can play Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the keystone cops can play the Mossad agents. The Hamas man can be played by Abbas.

I'll have my plastic people meet your plastic people.

"He (the Australian FM) also informed Rotem that the Australian federal police had opened an investigation and that he expected Israel's full and transparent cooperation." Why "transparent" so early in the game? This is after all a very delicate problem involving the killing of a monster. Australia could take a less self-agrandizing attitude and wait for more facts to come to light, like some of the others did. If it were a friend, that is.... Look for instance in this article: Johnboy at # 5 rightly shows that a lot of facts about the photos just DON'T MAKE SENSE! And this is continuing after reaching some 30-40 assassins!

My belief is that they sent a large number out to Dubai on fake passports to confuse, yes only a few were behind assassination but which ones! if only the assassins had flown to dubai they may have easily been identified.

Adam Marcus Korman, Joshua Daniel Bruce and Nicole Sandra McCabe.... (Maccabee....!)

The Dubai Police Chief is obsessed with finding out "who done it." Well, that's easy to prove. Through a series of errors, Mr. M. contributed to his own assassination. The events which led to his premature death were primarily coordinated by himself, and into the trap he fell. The resounding Snap was his own fault. His friends are outraged and embarrassed, and perhaps a bit peeved at Mr. M's sloppy espionage. Of course, they will blame others. They will manipulate the facts. They will implicate anyone to save face. After all, Mr. M's carelessness has humiliated them greatly and implies some rethinking of their own clandestine activities. I am sure that if Mr. M could share with us a posthumous comment, It would be, "Oops." His premature departure is the direct result of his own actions for which he should be held accountable.

Although an easy way for those to retain their dual nationality is that they have a special passport showing they are also in reciept of more than one passport as a dual national and they have to show both when travelling.

from the Austrian authorities regarding their investigations and findings about the mobile phones used by the hit team. Are they withholding something?

The occupational hazard of journalists the world over. Well, that and alcoholism. Has it never occurred to anyone that each of "the 26" might have entered Dubai in disguise and that the photos in their phoney passports are photos of them in disguise? Law enforcement agencies the world over are investigating. Let them do their job. When we know what evidence and findings they come up with, we can all comment on what should be done next - based on actualities rather than hypotheticals. Meantime there are far too many unanswered questions to sustain any real conclusions - let alone the dogmatic conclusions proferred by all the premature prognosticators.

that the world have not brought the story that Israel has tried to spin. Therefore apparently the photographs have been doctored so you will never be able to positively Identify the real owners of the face on the fake passports. I wonder if the people traced in Dubai have been identified at the places they fled to where they changed their passports and flew on to Israel. Face recognition technology is a wonderful thing. Surprised Mossad has never heard of it. (Hopefully this one will get pass the military censor)

PSM: "Israelis organising an escape route through Iran? With Australian passports? Where Australia supports boycott of Iran? Its a Red Flag asking for trouble." You face an evidentiary shortfall, PETER: 1) Those "aussies" entered Iran 2) Those "aussies" immediately boarded a flight out of Iran. Ergo, Iran has not the slightest problem with "aussies" transitting through their country REGARDLESS of the policies of the Australian govt. Why, exactly, should they? PSM:"Where Australia supports boycott of Iran?" What has that got to do with limiting the movement of individual Australians, PETER? If Rudd did a double-backflip tomorrow and supported a trade boycott of Israel would that affect the ability of Aussie tourists to transit through Israel? Why should it, PETER?

The occupational hazard of journalists the world over. Well, that and alcoholism. Has it never occurred to anyone that each of "the 26" might have entered Dubai in disguise and that the photos in their phoney passports are photos of them in disguise? Law enforcement agencies the world over are investigating. Let them do their job. When we know what evidence and findings they come up with, we can all comment on what should be done next - based on actualities rather than hypotheticals. Meantime there are far too many unanswered questions to sustain any real conclusions - let alone the dogmatic conclusions proferred by all the premature prognosticators.

Some discovery by Haaretz. It was a no brainer that the passports were doctored.

EU spies don't need Israeli passport Tthey have passports of their country (and fake passports, of course...) :o))) Only Israelis need other than Israeli passports to travel to other states. And you should ask your minds, your government and your ideologists, WHY. I must warn you, that "antisemitism" is WRONG answer.

"have u seen the real owners photos? or you simply believe whatever you are told! the passports used are real, so the true owners were either involved directly or indirectly." You clearly are misinformed on the matter. The names on the passports are mainly of dual citizens that live in Israel, but their genuine pictures were no used. The passports had altered pictures of the perpetrators instead, but with the names of the dual citizens. The passports were fake with the exception of the German Passport which was issued in Hamburg to a man claiming to be of German-Jewish ancestry.

So with all the information, why are the "suspecst" still at large? Furethermore, why have the Dubai authorities come out with conflicting reports on the forensic matter to this case?

It is more than time to oblige Israel-citizens to ask for visas when they go anywhere and to forbid people to have double nationalities.

Dubai police reported that 2 suspects fled to Iran, of all places. And what about the two arrested Palestinians who, according to Hamas, used to work for the P.A security force. Something fishy here.

How about EU states use Israeli passports in the United states and commit a few murders?

use ? retinal scan where are you going to compare them ?? have you photo of assassin doing the dirty deed? this farce is now gone beyond the ridiculous !

Anyone with so much self-hate (if you really are a Jewess) might want to try some plastic surgery herself. It just might give the confidence needed to get a life instead of harboring enough hatred to obsess daily against one tiny state in front of a computer.

Mossad going into damage control overdrive? Logical absurdities such as claiming you've altered a passport photo so that it can only be recognized in person smacks of desperation. But it's probably just meant to reassure the Israeli public that Mossad didn't really put it's citizens at risk for a training exercise involving the 26 graduates of the class of 2010...

have u seen the real owners photos? or you simply believe whatever you are told! the passports used are real, so the true owners were either involved directly or indirectly.

somebody executed a very sophisticated operation. i am really in awe. they all deserve, whoever they might be, to be decorated by their home country whichever that country might be. shabbat shalom.

Keeping tabs on Mabhouh's movements and contacts would generally need a major surveillance exercise. That means a large team or teams of watchers working in rotation. Particularly in an enclosed location like a hotel reception. There would likely also be a control van, for on-street work, an operational HQ, some specialists, the hit squad etc. 26 would not be over-generous Jane, probably on the light side if Mabhouh had got spooked and made a run for it or went to ground.

Is that Dubai is a place where people tend to visit on false passports. Begs the question-why?

I also found it strange at the beginning that 26 people would have been involved, but European experts interviewed in newspapers say that it's not surprising since this operation was carried out in an Arab country, where risks for Mossad agents would be much higher than in a Western country. Basically they needed agents to spy on the victim, but also agents to check that these agents were not being followed by Dubai operatives.

Even if the eyes color was changed, some of the pictures are crystal clear. I seriously doubt the agents, if they are indeed Israeli, will be able to travel before 10 years.

they do NOT take retina scan of everyone. they do NOT take retina scans of european passport holders. if you have otherwise information, then pls post a link. i really cant find any other info about this. that they have retina scans must have been a misinformation of some sort...

than meets the eye. Contradictory statements from Dubai. Ever increasing numbers of suspects nothing like the numbers known to be used by Israel. Israelis organising an escape route through Iran? With Australian passports? Where Australia supports boycott of Iran? Its a Red Flag asking for trouble.

... so what's wrong with doctoring a mere photo? ... all the more so, if it's done in a 'good cause'?

of the alleged genuine passport holders photos,that have been identified so far,so how can they be genuine.?

... 'le-maan ha-moledet' (= for-king-and-country) Shabbat shalom. E

Jane, this is how they always operate i.e. Sending in many to make sure the mission is accomplished with no errors whatsoever. Read about previous missions and you will understand

There. That should make them feel better.

Do you have privvy to their before and after pics?

Dubai automatically collects fingerprints and retinal scans of all people who land there or go through the airport. What difference does it make if photos were doctored? They have 24/7 airport surveillance, real fingerprints and real retinal scans not to mention video surveillance at the hotel where murder took place and cameras on traffic junctions.

everyone knows who did it, their identities and how they look like, how they did it, and who is behind them. all attempts to deny and deviate attention from these facts are simply desperate and foolish.

Thanks to this grave mistake by the Mossad, no Israeli with a dual-citizenship will be safe anymore. They will all be assumed to be Israeli intelligence agents. Good luck travelling in the future if you're a dual-citizenship Israeli.

you would love us to believe this - but nobody can sensibly trust propaganda like this

The photos on the fake passports do not match the agents who were carrying those passports, so using those pictures to identify these agents is pointless. .....MEANWHILE..... The photos on the fake passports were subtly altered, but not SO MUCH that when an immigration official holds that photo up to the dude in front of him he thinks "Hey! What Gives? This ain't the guy in the photo!?!?!". Ahem. If the photo was good enough for that immigration official to match it to the person standing in front of him then it's also good enough for anyone else who sees those photos on the web. After all, they are the same photos.....

The real owners of these passports gave them willingly to be used by mossad, and some of them are possibly involved in the killing operation. Plaing surprised and innocents is not convincing.

What, no mention of Israel here? Israel's ambiguous official response is correct, keeping quiet unless proof is presented.. As it becomes more and more clear that Mossad was not involved, the Israel-bashers foam at the mouth and fall all over each other even more in desperation to accuse Israel. What a riot.

one would assume that if mossad had indeed carried out the hit on hamas terrorist al-mahbouh, then the operation would be flawless. since the passport photographs were "doctored," all those who have claimed that a "spy ring" had been exposed, and agents burned, have been shown to be fools. there is no proof whatever as to who hit al-mahbouh, nor how the hit was carried out. one would think that the world has more significantly more important problems then some fake passports.

Right now there are 26 people listed as suspects; passports from half a dozen countries; and tales of trips all over the world. It only took one person to kill Mahmoud al-Mabhouh and he or she isn't any of the people in this article and isn't listed anywhere else. All these people will be cleared as all they did was stay in a hotel or fly in and out of Dubai. Meanwhile the assassin went in did the job and came out, and nobody is looking for him or her. Whether Israel was involved or not we'll probably never know, but we do know that there's a whole lot of empty speculation right now.