Hamas man's Dubai death was a Mossad-style execution

Forgot to ask: has any one proven whether this crook is really dead??? Could have been an "Two flys with one slap"-story. To hide this guy for future arms-deals and make PR against Mossad.

Israeli Mossad in Dubai? Are you so sure? Stop.Ask yourself questions? 1.Are you not impressed by Dubai?s fantastic ?recodings?? Cameras are rolling, we?re on air! Nobody smiles! 2.How about Doo Bay?s Police chief ? THE World famous investigator?what a performance.You?ve impressed bosses at Langley, MI5, and Interpol. So well rehearsed they couldn?t have done a better job. 3.The passports,of course?how clever! How many passports did Mossad use to take down Moghnyeh,Nasrallah?s very TOP man? 4.Now look outside your window.Can you see the Israeli drone plane flying over your house? ..don?t you? Do you believe that if a drone phad taken down Al-Mabhouh, and not some pathetic forged passport operation, it would be an Israeli drone? of course you would. 5. Any american passport forged? no? why not? - Have we just got an exclusively European diplomatic scandal? why? Who will it serve? Israel? the Palestinians? the rest of the Arabs? More European economic & academic sanctions? TO FOLLOW!

When I watched the Dubai clip first I thought: oh my G-d this girl Gail she looks like Rita Hayworth!!! So all I can say is "Put the Blame on Mame".

You mean you'll just continue getting your rocks off by bravely posting your inane anti ISRAELI drivel 24/7 on this ISRAELI site. You are our hero Michael. We want to have your children

Of course it was Mossad. God bless them. The bottom line: Another Hamas scum is dead. High fives all around.

Yes, it seems rather bizarre that they would grin into the CCTV cameras (Hi Mom!) and use the ID's of living Israelis, if they really were Mossad operatives. It sees to have been really rather sloppy. Much more like the CIA's alleged abduction antics in Italy a few years ago, when they actually used their own credit cards to pay for hotel bills! Italy tried and convicted these jokers in their absence. It does look a little too convenient - unless of course, it was meant as a deliberate warning to various parties - but at a high cost, since if it was the big M, they've rendered 11 operatives instantly useless for future operations of this, or of any undercover, kind. Such incompetance would be rare. The whole thing is very odd - I mean, odder than simply being a political 'wet job'.

they all look like jewish israelis! no denying in that. One of them even looks like the former head of Shas. What amateurism of the infamous mossad; all this just to kill one unarmed vulnerable man. next time you see a woman hanging around in front of your hotelroom with a cellphone, kill her!

See post #36. The moral. type less think more.

The numbers are nothing unusual.quite the contrary.

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So the whole farce cost $ 1 million ,big deal as the Hamas tunnelrental empire is raking in $ 30 mi llion a month ,so don,t send amateurs to do a professional,s job?

Maybe he had been enjoying some late night hanky panky with ladies of the night ,but don,t expect the Muslim hypocrites in Dubai to clarify this ,its supposed to be taboo overthere,

Who would use an 11 man hit team ,only amateurs as in Palestine/Jordanian intelligence ,coached by BBS ,Jonnyboy,Labhras,what,s new?

The clown of Beirut ,Nasrallah ,next question?

A dead giveaway ,too many operatives ,so it was clearly a stupid Palestinian attempt at skullduggey ,but what else to expect from camel herders of Arabia ?

Three Irish citizens involved ,then it can only be the Jordanian/PLO intelligence services as this organisation is stupid and inept enough to have Paddys on their hit team ?

You don't have to applaud anything, but then you don't have to come here with your silly comments either. You can just keep quiet and keep your hatred to yourself. Regardless of who killed this terrorist, some are happy he is dead and others, like you, believe that terrorists should have a free hand in killing Jews. It's hardly a case of a random killing of an innocent civilian - rather it was a well known terrorist and killer who got bumped off - rather like a mafia operation.

A senior member of Hamas's military arm and smuggling network has been arrested in Damascus for helping the assassins. Dubai's police chief also claimed yesterday that members of Makhoukh's close circle leaked information about his movements. The victim himself entered Dubai under a false name.

keeping track of "graduates" from Pakistan and Afghhanistan special courses whom Mi5 admitts it does not have the resources to handle. Never mind Ibrahim Hewitt British journalist has what happened all solved.

No Question Hamas will exploit this as a Mossad operation.The Dubai investigation of the assassination won't hold any weight in any corner of the mid-east.

Mossad by their own intelligence. As you said, if it was Mossad it would have been one or two, in and out and never in a hotel. A quick hit outside would have done the trick. Mossad would never leave such a big footprint....and they would never endanger 11 to 12 people on that kind of garbage. I suspect the CIA. They can never get anything right and they always come with overwhelming force.....like 11 or 12 people to do the job of one.

First off, now they have them on camera. Mossad would never let their video be taken. For those of you that think this man was great, he was not. He was an arms dealer, and this kind of thing happens all to often in Dubai. If not research past assassinations in Dubai. It is not a safe place especially for a man such as him self, in dealing arms.

So of all the intelligence services in the world only the Mossad could have pulled this off. So no other nation or group other than Israel might want Mahmoud al-Mabhouh dead. Not Fatah,not Jordan,not the CIA,not any other government European or Arab or any rival Palestinian group.That's the claim of the rank & file Israel bashers who spend their lives posting here, that only the Mossad/Israel is competant enough to successfully conduct such operation(by the way do you guys/gals ever take time off to eat or sleep or do anything else?) Thanks for that extraordinary compliment, but what's their evidence:actually nothing but their twisted belief that Israel & Jews are behind everything that happens in the world.You know how that is diagnosed? paranoia.

I know nothing about Mossad style. I don't even read spy novels much. But it would seem logical that any widely known "Mossad methods" would be the methods the real Mossad no longer uses...because they're widely known. JMHO

If they thought he was guarded, plus if they thought Dubai authorities were providing security, it would need at least three or four people, possibly eleven. They would have to spend some time watching to assess his security. The woman might have been there to stabilize the men (if they were not experienced). The tennis thing might be to help them blend in if it was a hotel with a tennis court.

this was a put up job between arab groups with the sole intent of blaming Israel in their efforts to delegitimize the only democracy in the ME. No arab actually voted for their leaders...except of course, hamass and Adminajerk

He was killed by Hamas. Mahmoud al-Mabhouh was a double agent working for the Isreali intelligence. He told them about the arms transport in Sudan. He was in Dubai to meet the Israelis. The Palestinians killed him.

are we all here to applaud mossad for its spectacular killing of a prominent hamas operative? why ? wasn't it a murder? wasn't it an execution? do we have to offer an applaud to somebody who has committed a spectacular execution? a spectacular killing? are we all ready to applaud? what about the crime that it has been committed? are we to applaud? what about the terrorist act that it has been committed? is it only hamas criminal acts to be labelled acts of terrorism???

Is this not terrorism?

Interesting and poignant article. In the UK, no-one yet has managed to reach a satisfactory conclusion as to how the microbiologist, David Kelly died (in 2003), other than to posit, convincingly, that the official tale of suicide via a blunt knife and the ulnar artery is about as likely as a spontaneous flight of pigs to Mars.

I was holding the balls of the other operatives - tennis balls that is.

it was somebody else. Quite possibly professional hit men says ex SAS or Blackwater doing a job for Arabs who want Israel to take the fall.

normally you would also have primly told him that you had already reported his veiled threats to your priviledged contacts in the Muslim White House...

4 guys execution team in the room (quite bully types) / 2 guys (gail and kevin) monitoring the execution wing / 6 people surveillance in total (3 teams each two people). 2 of the surveillance (tennis wilson short pants) were in the hotel from 15:30 on. at 16:00 two more (sports long pants) joines. all 2 teams leave by 18:40, after surveillance team 3 (one women, she was "not counted" and a man (big hats, tourist) arrive. the women might have swapped clothes with "gail". also im unsure, if the women boarding together with "kevin" to france that night was gail as stated on the vid; i would now rather think it was the other (surveillance-)women, as she was dressed as her (white pants) and gail was wearing black pants the evening and usually appeared with a blag shoulder bag. so IN TOTAL: 12 people during the crime, peter left before, in total there is cctv of 13 people. from the moment, police knew of the "communication" used (austria 0043 t-mobil), it was easypeasy to figure them out?

Do you believe everything you read as truth,lol?? Too funny..

Avigdor Lieberman is doing a good job don't you think? Ayalon and his naughty chair diplomacy must rank a close second. And third prize must go to Netanyahu for ordering this.

...so do many former agents. It's made all the international and American news. I am sure you noticed, you just feel queasy because it proves Israel is acting outside of the law with its assassination policies.

that you have made so easily? Pals working to eliminate a Hamas military commander,fratricide between thew 2 being unknown? Your easy connection??

Not one, but three Israelis citizens have allegedly had their identities stolen, implicating them in the Dubai assassination. It is interesting to note all three Israelis who had their identities stolen, have Anglo/Saxon sounding names, not Hebrew. You may care to read: Ynet News 16.2.10 "Stolen identity?" http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3850126,00.html

if it was Mossad Peter the so-called team leader would have been the last to leave!

they were quite experienced in assasinating IRA militants everywhere,mostly got the right man. Not looking under the bed? Good.However Mi5 is very busy looking,they can't keep up with the Pakistan Afghanistan "graduates" or the home grown variety. It would be rather nice if Brits could keep their suicide bombers at home don't you think?

We can speculate till doomsday...we could even go ahead and blame the peaceloving, beach partiers of the Island of Puerto Rico*! But at the end of the day it has been done and we are able to say "Woe is gone!" *My apologies to the peaceloving, beach partiers on the Island of Puerto Rico really we all know it wasn't any of you...I was just saying! :-)

I find it hard to believe that Mossad would run such a simple operation with ELEVEN agents, About 4-5 is all it should have taken. On the other hand, there are indications to a Mossad connection, and not because of the "methods" Yossi Melman points out, which are common among all professional agents. The first indication is stealing names of 3 Israeli nationals who are also foreign nationals. The assassins probably thought that in case the Dubai authorities have some foreign names on files, finding such a passport will tend to validate it. But why use ISRAELI names. There may be some connection to Israel here. And besides, why is Ehud Barak's picture (or his brother's) on the list? Check the leftmost picture on the second row. I am telling you, I am getting suspicious here..

11 Operatives to do this????? why dont israel bring all their armed forcess to execute an unarmed olderman??? what the hell is the woman operative doing there? and those tennis players?

Mossad would not need nor would they waste 12 on such a simple hit. If it was Mossad, one or two, in and out, done with. Twelve? It sounds like a polish joke. Six to hold him down and six to hold the pillow. I can't stop laughing.

The Mossad does not have brains for the scale of this operation. This had the hallmarks of CIA or British intelligence which had a motive for eliminating another Iranian operative.

Like you say, the funny thing about Robert is that his mouth denies it's Mossad and yet his heart clearly longs for it to be Mossad! I won't be changing my pattern of daily life and startung to look under my car just yet!

...while at the same time confirming his belief that it was Mossad. This is one extrajudicial assassination that does not seem to be going away, Dubai was no more amused than the first time Bibi pulled off one of these types of hits in another sovereign country. Jordan told Bibi they would publicly hang the Mossad agents dispatched to poison Khalid Meshaal and Bibi had to pony up the antidote to save the Mossad agents. He let Meshaal go to prevent the hanging, and the incident, from becoming any more of an international scandal that it already was. This is nothing new, just another day in Israel where the rule of law means absolutely nothing. Robert is simply a despicable troll, who makes threats his impotent little self has no chance of carrying out.

Swiss Dino suggests that when the rockets are not flying from Gaza, Israel has no security concerns and should cease all operations against its adversaries. Gee, Dino, so I guess when Hamas is quiet in Gaza, Iran, Hezbollah and the others are just sleeping? Nobody is sleeping, including Hamas. This game will go on until the politicians reach a comprehensive agreement. Until then, don't bother trying to tie every event to the qassam rocket.

If this was a Mossad operation, it does not bode well for Israel. Too many operatives in hostile territory on one target. The Norway Mistake used only 6 operatives. He was a very valuable asset to Iran and Hamas, and should have been interrogated for days before killing him. He could have been abducted and traded for Shalit Gilad. The day after a Fatah representative intered Gaza for talks w Hamas. It happened shortly after killing of 8 CIA operatives; retaliation agasint Iran. It was done to bolster Abbas and cut off Iran as the following week USA General visits Israel to argue against attacking Iran. If this was an Isreli operation, it was a botch job and very unlike Mossad. The 'tradecraft' for all operatives is the same, the objectives are different by country.

"They can`t be such pros if their photos are all over ..." - Mark Unless the intent was to provoke by allowing their connection to Israel to be easily made. I still remain unconvinced this was a Mossad operation though clearly it is a prime suspect.

s marrano "Chris" Lintwit ,a former Jewish scoundrel joining in. Go ahead ,use his name

and many other clandestine operations I have read about in novels. They change cars, have multiple tails to increase invisibility, arrive from different destinations. Palestinians were caught - maybe he crossed his own people in the weapons trade and they took revenge. By the way, how did they end up in Jordanian hands?

Its wonderful when a fellow Jew weighs in on the inflamatory side...that is, against the Jews, concerning the professional execution of a murderer of Jewish people and terrorist against the State of Israel. Thats all we need to further erode the much needed cohesivity among Israelis in general. A foolish and idiotic assertion on behalf of this Yossi Melman. He should feel ashamed that he stands up on a perch, in plain site, to fan the flames of hatred against Israel. Good job Yossi; a very resonsible way to handle 'freedom of speech.' Hopefully, Haaretz will be more careful in the future about such articles...unless they WANT to harm Israel. If not, then they should diss the article and stick to the common cause to secure Israel's well-being.

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I think you all watched a movie called Sword of Gideon. The only reason you would kill anybody and you would know it was an asassination would be to send a message to others. The trick is to eliminate without anybody being disposed of because of extreme prejudice. If Mossad does not know this I will be happy to teach them how. The trick is to kill without anybody realising a killing has taken place. Murder is the easist crime to solve. The last thing you want to do, say a Nazi, is to shoot him. By doing that you have done him a favor. Prisoners have value and are expensivve to keep. Amateurs all.

It sounds like a Tv program. Who wrote it?

Mr. Melman; describtions and methods for undercover activities one can be seen in any western action movie playing in this genre and in any books of same genre as well. Even if a hit-squad would have been send from the state of micronesia they would not arrive like a football team. Your article is beyond words one of a daydreamer and amateur. Guess you should watch less James Bond and action movies!

I would not bet on the fact that the agents did not commit any mistake. Considering the speed at which the Dubai police is moving with investigations, they seem extremely professionnal and may be able to identify some people on the team. The latter are probably not going to be able to travel for some time.

Perhaps Michael if the Mossad did it as you claim without a shred of evidence, it should be a warning to those who wish to destroy Israel and the Jewish people. Do you know of anyone else like that?

I really don't know who killed him, but as usual our media talks much to much . whoever did it should be blessed and let well enough alone. With all this dribble we do not serve any purpose. Rating rating and never mind the cost.

go watching the cctv, this is really big stuff. did you see, how - at the end when entering the plane - gail knowingly turns around, looking another time fully into the cctv cam ? as saying "f.cked you, thanks for that". freaking cool :) the cctv alone, is better than any spy/crime movie. congrats to dubai for this investigation so far. its the way as expected from them: big story told well.

2 room (killing), 2 room (gathering evidence), 2 on the floor/lift (surveillance), 2 lobby (surveillance) == 8 people on the cctv (thanks to dubaisession for them). there are 2 women (one surveilance on the floor (gail), and another one in the lobby during the murder (big hat). probably some two more had to check the carpark and its entry to the hotel. also, they had to consider, that maybe someone was denied entrance at the airport, so some replacement agents were needed, or in case anything went wrong during the plan / the plan had to be changed.

So much BS in this report Typical Ha'Aretz way of gaining headlines KGB works same way, Can be Egypt too or Iran to flame and blame Israel

What difference does it make who killed the sorry S.O.B.? Be it Israel, Palestinian, Jordanian, Egyptian, European, Irish, French, German, English, or the USA...The Murderer is dead, so...who cares? The world is better off without him and what his actions would have caused.

While everyone is trying to pin this on Mossad, the main question is why would they commit their resources to such a relatively insignificant person. Mossad could just as easily have spirited him off somewhere. Unless of course he was in possession of... or perhaps other assassins from other groups with other interests were involved. Unlikely anyone but those who hit him will ever know for sure.

Actually, either Mossad, Hamas and thrird party are so easy to murdered each other. Open your eyes: only those from neutral countries professionals are easier to have close to target. When a tiger being scouted by a lion, the scene is natural. But when a tiger is approached by poisonous rabbits, that's it!! Mursal Mahmud +62878907531

Who would use an 11 man squad? One has to look at history, it is no secret: A 4 or 5 person (maximum) squad is the Mossad norm (New Zealand, Lillehammer etc. are well documented), with probably an additional one on the outside or at a safe house. Here there were 11 ... plus probably one or two more outside. For the Mossad I think the risks were too high for that many people. This is something else, far bigger and even a possibly a joint operation by a number of agencies/countries. The other possibility that would fit is that of a Russian mafia weapons deal gone wrong - Result: Deadly response! Either way .... these people were professional and will not be recognized that easily once they have removed their "facial modifications".

You think it's more likely that the IRA did a favour for Fatah than it being Mossad? Ok first of all what would the IRA get out of it? money? and what would Fatah get out of a high-planned operation like this? Did anything change their situation or Hamas'? I mean just Fatah having ties to the IRA is enough to convince you that they did it and not Mossad? Fatah gets nothing even if this is 100% successful operation. You failed to provide the reasoning other than simply having ties to the IRA. Thats just wishful thinking.

Mossad would have interrogated this weapons dealer, assassination is not good interrogation technique.my first suspect is his wife, because of the suffocating pillow

who cares if the mossad did it? this guy kidnapped and killed 2 israeli soldiers before. he is also the main weapons connect from iran to hamas. also, hamas is openly at war with israel, they refuse to recognize the jewish state. this man's responsibility in hamas is to obtain weapons to kill israelis, therefore israel has every right to go after him. hamas makes it sound like it was a random act of violence. this man's life revolved around violence for decades. good riddance!

I would suggest Fatah: don't they have ties to the Irish Republican Army? Do a google search for yourself.

A lot of ppl are making suggestions of why this is not necessarily Mossad as there's no proof. And thats true, so you cant say that its them 100%. BUT I mean come on ppl you have to admit they are suspect no.1. * Who are Hamas' enemies? - Israel, Fatah (i guess), Arab countries, and the West (backers of Israel) Fatah couldn't pull this off and they wouldn't gain anything anyways, its not like it will dissolve Hamas or something. And Arab countires wont get anything out of it either * Whats the point of the operation? - Its not a leader that Hamas cant live without. Hamas life will go on. This is clearly a revenge kick operation (if you disagree, state what could be gained from this, and gained by whom) All the blind Israeli defenders plz state if this is not Mossad then who would you say is suspect no.1 and WHY.

Mossad methods????? I dont get it either. Anyone who had the desire and means to do this could have used these methods

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More clever, smart, they are jews by the way.

I trust the British Intelligence Services are gong to co-operate on this one. After all, Dubai is in their patch, and the killers did use fake British passports. The UK government made quite a fuss, quite rightly, of a Russian killed in London by the KGB, and that has soured UK-Russian relations for quite some time. If and when the culprits are identified, I would expect the same frosting of relations to occur this time round as well. Extra-judicial assassination contravenes international law and is the imprimatur of gangsters. Another motive for tracking down who did it is the SIS need to show they are on the side of the "goodies". Their involvement with CIA interrogations using torture has quite rightly badly dented their image at home. However, if it should ever come out that they assisted in this operation in any way, or did not reveal information they knew of the op, then they will seriously have undermined their own country?s security by forcing changes to the way they operate.

In Lillehammer, Norway, after an informant mistakenly said Bouchiki was Ali Hassan Salameh, a Black September operative. Five Mossad agents, including two women, were captured by the Norwegian authorities, while others managed to slip away. In an interview about the Spielberg film on Munich,former Mossad agent Gad Shimron says that teams in the field always include some women in order to avoid arousing suspicion. "It`s standard practice to include female agents in such operations," he told Reuters. "Anyone who has been on a stakeout knows that having a lady on hand helps you avoid being spotted." Shimron also said that unlike in the film, the revenge squads probably did not contain document forgers, as such personnel would not have the time necessary to produce high quality documents due to the short duration of their missions. The team of assassins was most likely much larger than the five-man group in the movie as well. Mossad veterans told Reuters that because of their high priority, every reprisal operation involves a massive number of field agents. So contrary to your pronouncements it is quite the norm to use a large number of operatives in such assassinations.

for a death that was not known to have been by their agents .It is your brothers that alway have glorious victories. Cute the Hezb boys goose stepping in black uniforms dont you think?

the reference to british sources could be anyone or anything. as for hariri, figure it out. now i shall log off.

....a reputation of being badly informed. And honestly, I fail to understand, what the Dubai assassination has to do with the Hariri killing...

I can't see, how Mr. Melman seems to identify distinctive Israeli patterns in this hit. From all my readings I got an impression of the israeli services are conducting wet operations only on 100 % intelligence - and by that I mean one hundred and not 90% and not 95%. Most hits definitely operated by them therefore seem to happen in a theater, where the behaviour of the target is known, which means his area of living, where the risk of surprises is reduced as much as possible. Comparing published details of operations conducted by intelligence services all over the world there seems to at last one, which resembles the hit in Dubai far more than all Mossad/MI neutralizations and the involved power has a great interest in the middle east. I don't mind Tel Aviv taking the bullet on this one for a good friend, but I don't think it should be too keen on it either. Whoever killed the man did the state of Israel a favor, but he'd better died in Syria, lebanon or Tehran.

Look at the accompanying photograph to the other article Three of them look like the same person as do two of the others

the world. Disguise is limited in these circumstances and advanced software can "un-disguise" it to produce their real faces which must have been caught on Cam when they arrived to airports in Europe. Face recognition Cameras deployed in every major city in Europe will reveal the real identity of these guys. Also, using fake passports of a country will lead the Intelligence service of that country putting its nose into the matter and find out who used its country's name to do a dirty job. This affair is far from over and Dubai definitly has the money and the contacts to go all the way.

ill bet the photos were similars and not photos of the personnel concerned. the passports were fakes too if these people were hit men and women !

It seems likely that it's Mossad. I'm sure that there are others who would be happy to see him dead, but there's something about the scale and complexity of the operation that suggests Mossad rather than random arms dealers or an Arab intelligence agency. What's really strange though is that Israel's supporters on here aren't rushing to claims this for Mossad. Why? They were handing out the Kol Hakovods like confetti on the bombing of the alleged Syrian reactor even before anybody had any idea what had actually happened. Yet here, they're suddenly silent. Al-Mabhouh was not a nice man and on past evidence they would have been happy enough if the IAF had killed him, even if a few innocent civilians had also died. Could it be that even they are a bit sickened by the cold ruthlessness of these ten smiling people setting out to choke the life out of a man? Not quite what Bibi hoped, I imagine, if this is Mossad.

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so killing a man is a job well done! then perhaps one of your own is next, you would not agree then! huh?

Who's next?

i agree! 11 people for a hit in a neutral territory doesn't add up? sounds more like an honor killing of some sort...or one that required representation from more than one interested party. perhaps a sentence, agreed to by several parties, none of whom would carry it out unless all parties passing sentence were represented at the execution. this would require every party to participate equally in its every aspect. that way, if the involvement of any was discovered, none could attempt to save face by denying their part in the agreement with a doublecross that would the leave any other holding the bag. that would explain the number of people involved...

good riddance, ole mahmoud al-mabhouh, nobody cries for you and nobody will cry for your comrades when they, too, die cowardly deaths in fancy hotel rooms. hilarious that the world bothers to argue about your killer, since it is universally agreed that you are not missed - rather, your death is a blessing for peace!

there is no proof whatever to what you say. by the way, whatever happened to the hariri assassination probe by the un?

it is very doubtful that mossad would use so many operatives for this one kill.

....Hamas operatives/leaders. Wonder why...??? Yes, sometimes I really do, at least if I wanna continue to believe into an Israel "longing for peace"....:)

One thing is for sure,all this talk of Mossad here and Mossad there is a load of old cobblers. Not one person who has sent a post here and that includes me,has any idea how the Mossad works. If it had been the Mossad,Dubai would have made a mountain out of a mole hill to discredit Israel.

This story might be true,On the other hand it might not.

the fact that a couple palestinians provided the operation with logistical information is JUST as implicating for israel as it is any palestinian org... aren't you aware that israel receives "logistical information" from palestinians on a daily basis...or does the depth of your hate preclude your conscious ackowledgement of that fact?

The methods described here could equally be used by any intelligent intelligence service performing an undercover mission. Yes, no doubt the Mossad would use these sorts of methods, but so would operatives from many other countries' intelligence services. We certainly cannot begin to know, based on the facts presented in this article, where the responsibility lies. It is nieive to assert otherwise.

They used disguises and flew in from different countries? The methods mentioned here are things I would expect any semi competent intelligence agency to use. IMO this article doesn't contain anything that suggests Mossad did it. If you look at motive I would agree that Mossad is a likely suspect. However motive is not evidence in any way.

a planned hit would require no more than 2 operatives .

sort of a back-handed compliment isn't it?

Moral of the story? Quite simple: Don't mess with Israel!

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WHO CARES WHO GOT HIM?

that they changed vehicles, clothes, locations and used poison does NOT point to "mossad". its just ridiculous. the poison-cases the public knows of (e.g. jordan, the russian radioactive sushi in london), are probably just a very very few, and known only because they went wrong. poisoning seems to be a very common secret service method. that this dubai-team used such methods as well, does not even point to a secret service action. however, someone delivered very detailed information from the damascus departure. it was essential for the operation, that the bodyguards did NOT join him. so, maybe someone had access and manipulated the emirates airline booking system. in dubai, there was access to the (general?) hotel key. maybe the poison was brought through the airport security check, but probably not the stungun. sorry, but i find it a bit thick, to be honest, to ignore all the blatant obvious internal control of this action - from damascus, as well as from within dubai.

Given his background, it is almost given that he was on `business` and Dubai has lots of knowledge as to his activity. But they wont release any info in order not anger their good Arab and Iranian terrorists firends of course.

This is getting better day by day. British, Irish, French, German and Palestinian operatives... sounds more like a European gumbo-soup of passports, cooked to order in a certain intelligence agency's kitchen. Quite obvious, the UAE investigation is going nowhere. Here is a clue Dubai investigators... 'injected poison into his veins'. Now... who has used that procedure before. Maybe someone needs to ask, what by chance occurred to Meshal or Nasrallah... just a hunch.

Pages of blabber totally devoid of any facts or information. Typical Yossi Melman. Typical Haaretz.

My real name is Yehuda Melman. Does that mean I am related to the author. If a book was published describing Modaads methods, maybe the perpetrators copied these methods.

They kill each other all the time all over the Arab world. The list of suspects is the list of the Arab world plus lots of combinations of deals gone wrong. Thank you Mr Mellman for giving a full story

operatives were involved. No, it was not done by Mossad. It was done by Arab rival factions.