Israel: Did the alleged Mossad hit in Dubai really help?
02:38 / 10.03.2010 As more details emerge about the Jan. 19 assassination of a senior Hamas operative in Dubai, it looks increasingly like a badly botched operation, APA reports quoting time.com web-page. When the Dubai police first announced that the hotel room of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh had been locked from the inside, I had dismissed that as an unimportant detail - maybe a way to delay the discovery of his body. But it turns out that the assassins had, in fact, wanted the Dubai police to believe that Mabhouh had died of natural causes, a heart attack. It certainly looked that way at first. Mabhouh was found in bed, undressed, and his pants were folded on a chair. That impression, though, was upended when the autopsy showed traces of a paralyzing agent in his bloodstream. From what’s been pieced together so far, it seems that Mabhouh was incapacitated and then smothered.
No one with any sense doubts it was Israel’s Mossad that assassinated Mabhouh. While Israel has not admitted it, it has also not denied it. The killing was publicly applauded by Tzipi Livni, leader of Israel’s opposition and herself a former Mossad agent. And it had all of the hallmarks of a Mossad operation - motivation (Mabhouh was buying Iranian arms for Gaza), the large number of people believed to be on the assassination team (26 at the latest count) and a network that spans Europe and the U.S. (where two of the alleged assassins traveled to from Dubai).
If Mossad was indeed responsible, it means that blame for Mabhouh’s assassination can be put at the doorstep of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Israel’s Prime Minister has historically approved hits staged in countries with which Israel is not at war. Such details are unlikely to be made public any time soon, but it does make you wonder what the deliberations might have been leading up to Mabhouh’s assassination.Bu yazı ( 303 ) - dəfə oxunmuşdur
