Israeli media: Mossad assassinated Al-Mabhouh

[17breezes]

I will be interested to see if Dubai ever offers any real forensic evidence other than circumstantial video and cllaims like this

Tamim stressed that the passports in question were not stolen or forged – but were real. “We do not rule out the possibility that Israel has a printer that prints passports of countries around the world, and this confirms that Israel is country that violates international law,” he said.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340 ... 83,00.html

One convincing video would have been one showing any of the suspects at the victim's door. One wonders why the camera laden hotel could not catch any action in that mysterious hallway. Oh wait they do catch one suspect in that hall scoping out the victim's room, but that's it. (10:09-11:07)


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So far only 3 Palestinians have been arrested.

[AlicetheKurious]

The descriptions of Mossad :culture" are romanticized in the same way that mafia movies fail intentionally to describe the sufferings of those involved. Otherwise, nobody would agree to work there. The battle in Israel now is to dispell the fake glory, and so the recent serious "civil rights" event here involved the refusal of two school headmasters to allow IDF officers to come and speak before kids (the "pep talk"). the Israeli chief of staff himslef reprimanded those educators, and there was a big hassle (still is). The other "civil war" is between Bar Refaeli and the IDF command...just to illustrate the point.

It's very true, about how much propaganda there is, romanticizing the Mossad. Not just in Hollywood, but even in "serious" books like Gordon Thomas'. But the Mossad is not like a mafia, it is a mafia: they go around murdering people, including at least hundreds (if not thousands) of Arab scientists, intellectuals and political figures, they engage in false-flag terrorism (which victimizes not only the dead and injured, but the countries who are falsely accused and then punished), they exploit women and children to use them as "honey-pots", they seriously endanger the national security of any country whose government is stupid or corrupt enough to "collaborate" with them, they recruit agents to steal sensitive or very expensive technology for Israel's industries, and others to sacrifice their own country's economic, military and political interests for Israel's. And even that's just the tip of the iceberg: all too often, turn over the unbelievably savage and destructive so-called "Russian" mafiya, and out pops the Mossad.

Nobody believes the glamorous myths about the Mossad more than they themselves. But a closer look always shows them to be much less competent than they and their fans like to think. They usually get away with really dumb mistakes because of the other arms of the "octopus", whose job it is to make sure they do. Maybe that's starting to change.

[hava1]

political interests for Israel's


all agreed except this little - but telling - "slip" on your part. its not "the interests of Israel" even purportedly anymore. its their "clan"'s interest, and god knows I don't know how to define that clan of associates, but its certainly not equivalent even for propaganda's sake to "israel's interests".

the octupus, here too and the clans around those intel orgs, is not something i presume to define or understand, but its there.

in their downfall we shall be consoled, partly.

[AlicetheKurious]

...its not "the interests of Israel" even purportedly anymore. its their "clan"'s interest, and god knows I don't know how to define that clan of associates, but its certainly not equivalent even for propaganda's sake to "israel's interests".

the octupus, here too and the clans around those intel orgs, is not something i presume to define or understand, but its there.

in their downfall we shall be consoled, partly.

Yes, that's certainly Victor Ostrovsky's and Ari Ben-Menashe's belief as well. But the history of zionism provides ample evidence that this has always been the case, since Baron Rothschild first approached the Ottoman emperor trying to buy land in Palestine in the mid-1800s, and then recruited and paid Russian Jews to colonize it.

[MacCruiskeen]

How I escaped Mossad's clutches

Israel’s secret intelligence service is ruthless but reckless because it doesn’t care about international opinion, says Peter Hounam, who was imprisoned by them.

By Peter Hounam
Telegraph, 7:00AM GMT 20 Feb 2010

Comments 47 |


Peter Hounam after his release from Israeli police custody Photo: AP

If Mossad was behind the murder of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in a Dubai hotel last month it should shock nobody. From my experience of the Israeli intelligence agencies, it is not their ruthlessness that is so remarkable but their disdain for international public opinion and tendency to take short cuts.

Hit teams dispatched by the spymasters of Tel Aviv have been surprisingly clumsy in exercising their licence to kidnap or kill around the world. Many operations have been botched, causing huge embarrassment to friendly countries.

My experience of them happened six years ago after I had gone to Israel on behalf of the BBC and The Sunday Times. The aim was to get the first interview with nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu on his release after 18 years in jail, 11 of them spent in solitary confinement. I ended up being accused of nuclear espionage myself.

[...]

- continues here:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/feature ... tches.html

[AlicetheKurious]

BBC blasted for ‘bigoted fear-mongering’
BY HAVIV RETTIG GUR
22/02/2010 02:55

Radio 4 aired claim that 500,000 Diaspora Jews ready to help Mossad in hits.

The New York-based American Jewish Committee blasted the BBC on Sunday for airing an accusation that Jews around the world assist in supposed Mossad assassinations.

The AJC said in a statement that it was “dismayed that a guest on BBC Radio 4 was allowed to state unchallenged” that the Mossad relies on Jews for assassination plots.

“This baseless accusation crosses every red line between legitimate public discussion and bigoted fear-mongering,” said AJC executive director David Harris. “In less than a minute, the BBC has cast a shadow on the lives of Jews worldwide.”

BBC Radio 4’s PM program interviewed Gordon Thomas, author of Gideon’s Spies, a book about the Mossad, about the January 20 assassination of Hamas military commander Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in Dubai.

Local authorities and many international media outlets believe that the killing of Mabhouh, who bought rockets for Hamas forces in the Gaza Strip, was carried out by the Mossad.

In explaining the Mossad’s operating methods outside Israel, Thomas told PM host Eddie Mair, “They have a whole backup system called ‘asylum.’ These are people, local residents, Jewish people, who help the Mossad. It is estimated to be in the world about half a million; some people say a million; I tend to say it’s about half a million, all of them Mossad people.”

“Of course, Mr. Thomas is irresponsible in making such unfounded assertions on a radio program heard around the world,” said Harris, “but even more shocking is BBC, a premier public broadcaster with a far-reaching global network. How can the interviewer allow such aspersions to be cast on a community without the reporter calling the so-called expert to order?”

The comments also drew condemnation from observers of the BBC.

“Unfortunately, such ugly and nonsensical statements on the BBC come as no surprise. The BBC often handpicks interviewees who are likely to say such things as part of a wider pattern to demonize the State of Israel,” said Tom Gross, a former Middle East correspondent for The Sunday Telegraph and a Middle East analyst who has long been critical of BBC coverage of the region.

The AJC called on the BBC “to examine this disgraceful transmission, apologize to Jews around the world and remove from its archive the slanderous words.”

Reached for comment, the BBC press office in London said, “This interview was part of a wider piece about the assassination of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh which involved contributions from a number of people including Gordon Thomas, an author of a book about [the] Mossad.

“The sentiments expressed by Gordon Thomas were clearly his own opinions. They came at the end of the interview when it was being wrapped up and there was no time to come back on them.”

http://www.jpost.com/International/Arti ... ?id=169316

[American Dream]

I'm undecided with regards to Gordon Thomas, but here, for whatever it is worth, is his biography as given on his own website:

BIOGRAPHY


In 1933 in Wales, Gordon Thomas was born in a cemetery keeper’s cottage where his grandmother lived. He wrote and had his first story published at nine years old in a Boys Own Paper competition on why he wanted to grow older and listen to adult conversations. With his father in the RAF, he travelled widely and was educated at the Cairo High School, the Maritz Brothers in Port Elizabeth and, finally, at Bedford Modern from where he was expected to go on to university. His first book was completed at the age of seventeen. It was the story of a British spy in Russia during World War Two, titled Descent Into Danger. This was his initial encounter with spying. He turned down the offer of a place at university in order to accompany a travelling fair for a year. Those experiences became Bed of Nails. Since then, Gordon has written forty-one books published worldwide. He has been a foreign correspondent beginning with the Suez Crisis and ending with the First Gulf War. He was a BBC writer/producer for three flagship BBC programmes: Man Alive, Tomorrow’s World and Horizon. He is a regular contributor to Facta, the respected monthly Japanese news magazine, and he lectures widely on the secret world of Intelligence. He also provides expert analysis on Intelligence for US and European television and radio shows. Gordon’s awards include a Monte-Carlo International Television Award; an Edgar Allen Poe Award; and a Lifetime Achievement Award for Investigative Journalism from the Citizens Commission for Human Rights. He divides his time between his homes in Ireland and England.


FROM THE AUTHOR:

Writing about myself is not easy. There is much I do not wish to share, which explains why I have turned down several offers to publish my memoirs. Perhaps one day.

I have few close friends. One was Bill Buckley, a near perfect spy who died too soon for all the wrong reasons (read: Secrets & Lies). Essentially, I am fortunate to be a writer who has come to be trusted by the men and women of the secret world of Intelligence. Rafi Eitan of the Mossad opened doors for me to the most covert of all the secret services. Meir Amit, a living legend in the global intelligence community, was another guide. Last, but far from least, was my late father-in-law, a Cold War spy. They are all part of the pantheon of spies to whom I owe my career.

I write by hand and sometimes on my old manual typewriter at a desk my father bought from T.E. Lawrence – Lawrence of Arabia. Though not a piece of beauty, it holds a special place in my life. On its surface I have done my best work.

I have two sons, two daughters and two grandchildren. In each of them I have intense pride for their special qualities. For forty years I have been married to my third wife, who is still like an Indian summer. She is my first reader, my sharpest critic and my greatest support.

http://www.gordonthomas-author.com/Biography.html

[AlicetheKurious]

...The next day Ran S. delivered a lecture on the sayanim, a unique and important part of the Mossad's operation. Sayanim - assistants - must be 100 percent Jewish. They live abroad, and though they are not Israeli citizens, many are reached through their relatives in Israel. An Israeli with a relative in England, for example, might be asked to write a letter saying the person bearing the letter represents an organization whose main goal is to help save Jewish people in the diaspora. Could the British relative help in any way?

There are thousands of sayanim around the world. In London alone, there are about 2,000 who are active, and another 5,000 on the list. They fulfill many different roles. A car sayan, for example, running a rental agency, could help the Mossad rent a car without having to complete the usual documentation. An apartment sayan would find accommodation without raising suspicions, a bank sayan could get you money if you needed it in the middle of the night, a doctor sayan would treat a bullet wound without reporting it to the police, and so on. The idea is to have a pool of people available when needed who can provide services but will keep quiet about them out of loyalty to the cause. They are paid only costs. Often the loyalty of sayanim is abused by katsas who take advantage of the available help for their own personal use. There is no way for the sayan to check this.

One thing you know for sure is that even if a Jewish person knows it is the Mossad, he might not agree to work with you, but he won't turn you in. You have at your disposal a nonrisk recruitment system that actually gives you a pool of millions of Jewish people to tap from outside your own borders. It's much easier to operate with what is available on the spot, and sayanim offer incredible practical support everywhere. But they are never put at risk nor are they privy to classified information.

Suppose during an operation a katsa suddenly had to come up with an electronics store as a cover. A call to a sayan in that business could bring 50 television sets, 200 VCRs, whatever was needed, from his warehouse to your building, and in next to no time, you'd have a store with $3 or $4 million worth of stock in it.

Since most Mossad activity is in Europe, it may be preferable to have a business address in North America. So, there are address sayanim and telephone sayanim. If a katsa has to give out an address or a phone number, he can use the sayan's. And if the sayan gets a letter or a phone call, he will know immediately how to proceed. Some business sayanim have a bank of 20 operators answering phones, typing letters, faxing messages, all a front for the Mossad. The joke is that 60 percent of the business of those telephone answering companies in Europe comes from the Mossad. They'd fold otherwise.

The one problem with the system is that the Mossad does [not] seem to care how devastating it could be to the status of the Jewish people in the Diaspora if it was known. The [answer] you get if you ask is: "So what's the worst that could happen to those Jews?' they'd all come to Israel - Great." ...

-Former Mossad agent Victor Ostrovsky, By Way of Deception

[hava1]

Not sure its good/bad to put emphasis on the "jewish sayanim" so called, but who knows. not trying to give advice.

alice, et al, all true (zionism etc.) but there might still be a small group of people who had other intentions, and they define their "israel" as they wish it to be, I wish you could respect that. not sure its a huge bunch of people, but its got integrity in its aspirations, and the Baron Rothchilds of sorts, are not among them, in fact they pray on them, as u know. So...my point remains.

Peter Hounam was either a major league dupe or a paid spin doctor in the case mentioned here, i don't trust his statements.

The truth is that mossad is ruthless coz it enslaves, cheats, threatens and abuses, its "sayanim": and they call it rain, inside and outside of israel. But i think that credit just ran out.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homicide_(1991_film)

[chump]

http://www.voltairenet.org/article164181.html

Mossad’s Murderous Reach: The Larger Political Issues
by James Petras*

The recent assassination of Hamas top military commander Mahmoud al-Mabhouh is consistent with Israel’s traditional policy of extrajudicial killings targeting Palestinian resistance fighters abroad. It raises the fundamental issue of violating the sovereignty of other countries, overriding their laws. Moreover, Israel’s cynical use of dual citizens to achieve its murderous goals, as in this case, also raises the question of allegiance and to what extent the second passport-issuing countries are willing to look the other way to guarantee Israel’s impunity...

...Conclusion
While the critics bemoan the clumsy Mossad job, making it harder for Western powers to provide Israel with diplomatic cover for its operations abroad, the fundamental issue is never addressed: The Mossad’s acquisition and alteration of official British, French, German and Irish passports of dual Israeli citizen’s underscores the cynical and sinister nature of Israel’s exploitation of its dual citizens in the pursuit of its own bloody foreign policy goals. Mossad’s use of genuine passports issued by four sovereign European nations to its citizens in order to murder a Palestinian in a Dubai hotel room raises the question of to whom ‘dual’ Israeli citizens really owe their allegiance and just how far they are willing to go in defending or promoting Israel’s overseas assassinations.

Thanks to Israel’s use of British passports to enter Dubai and murder an adversary, every British businessperson or tourist traveling in the Middle East will be suspected of links to Israeli death squads. With elections this year and the Labor and Conservative parties counting heavenly on Zionist millionaires for campaign funding, it remains to be seen whether Prime Minister Gordon Brown will do more than whimper and cringe!

[AlicetheKurious]

UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown was already under incredible pressure from the "zionist millionaires" because he hadn't yet delivered on his and British Foreign Minister David Miliband's disgusting promises to change British laws so that Israeli war criminals can feel safe.

Miliband, who happens to be on the list of "hasbara authors" published by the hasbara (zionist propaganda) site infoisrael.net, was pushing very hard for this change in legislation, in fact his Foreign Office had already claimed that a change in the law was "imminent", before this additional evidence of Israel's contempt for international law made his job even more difficult. What with fighting wars that grievously harm Britain but profit Israel, trying to change British laws to protect Israeli child-torturers, murderers and thieves, and allowing Israeli agents to endanger British passport-holders, it should be obvious by now who these public officials of the "British" government are really working for. Will it matter? On the one hand, probably not, because there is literally no alternative: all three main parties in Britain have been thoroughly infiltrated and subverted and on the issue of absolute allegiance to Israel, they are identical. On the other hand, maybe yes, because probably the British people aren't comfortable with having their public officials so obviously taking orders from a foreign state. Can they, will they do something about it? It's hard to say.

[seemslikeadream]

UAE identifies four more over Mabhouh killing in Dubai


Mr Mabhouh was murdered in a Dubai hotel room, police say
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has identified four more users of European passports suspected of involvement in the killing of a Hamas leader in Dubai.
Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, one of the founders of Hamas' military wing, was found dead in a hotel on 20 January.
The killing has been widely blamed on the Israeli secret service. Israel has refused to confirm or deny involvement.
At least 15 people using European passports have been identified as suspects in the case.
The British Foreign Office has confirmed it has received information from the UAE about another two suspects carrying British passports, bringing the total number of British passports used to eight.
The Irish Foreign Ministry has said it too has been informed about two more suspects who used Irish passports with genuine numbers but fake names and photographs.
A total of five Irish identities were used.
Dubai authorities had already released the identities of 11 people who travelled under the false passports. French and German identities, as well as British and Irish ones, were used.
The UK government denies it had any prior knowledge of the fake British passports being used, although shadow foreign secretary William Hague said it was "entirely possible" the government had been alerted.

[kenoma]

Suspect used Dublin 4 address [owned by Brother of former Irish PM]



A vacant property in Dublin's Ballsbridge, owned by a brother of former taoiseach Albert Reynolds, was given as a home address by one of five fake Irish passport-carrying members of the team allegedly responsible for assassinating a Hamas official in Dubai.

The Irish Times has obtained a copy of an invoice issued by the Jumeirah Emirates Towers hotel to a man travelling under the name of Kevin Daveron, who was last week named by Dubai police as one of up to 18 suspects in the killing of Mahmoud al Mabhouh last month.

The invoice – which notes Mr Daveron’s departure time as 1.40pm on January 19th, the day Mr Mabhouh was murdered in his hotel room – gives his address as 6 Elgin Road in Ballsbridge.

The property at that address has been owned by James Reynolds, father of music promoter and Electric Picnic organiser John Reynolds, since the 1960s. The three-storey red brick property, which at one stage was divided into flats, has been vacant for about 10 years. Located in the Ballsbridge embassy belt, the building is close to several diplomatic missions including those of the Ukraine, the US and Israel.

Last night John Reynolds, speaking on behalf of his father, told The Irish Times the family was “absolutely shocked and horrified” that the property had been used as an address by one of the alleged hit squad without their knowledge.

The Jumeirah Emirates Towers hotel yesterday confirmed that the details on the invoice obtained by The Irish Times correspond with those in the hotel’s records.

The invoice notes Mr Daveron’s arrival on January 18th and details costs incurred for two nights accommodation, breakfast ordered in the hotel lobby, and non-alcoholic beverages consumed from the mini-bar. The total bill came to 3,578 dirhams (€715) and was paid in cash.

According to information released by Dubai police last week, Mr Daveron arrived in Dubai from Paris on an Air France flight with a woman travelling under the name of Gail Folliard. She was also carrying a fake Irish passport. Police believe the pair comprised one of two surveillance teams sent in advance to gather intelligence on Mr Mabhouh. After checking out of his hotel, Mr Daveron donned a wig and glasses before arriving at the hotel where the Hamas official was planning to stay.

He and Ms Folliard are alleged to have acted as look-outs while the assassins acted. The two are believed to have flown back to Paris that night.

The link to the Ballsbridge property is the latest twist in what has become a major international intrigue. The alleged assassins also used six passports from Britain, and one each from France and Germany, according to Dubai police.

[Uncle $cam]

[AlicetheKurious]

I read elsewhere that the real Michael Bodenheimer never applied for German citizenship. I wonder if the German government will make any changes to their citizenship laws to make it harder for them to be abused in this way.

Alleged Killer Left Traces in Cologne and Israel

By Christoph Schult and Holger Stark

The Israeli intelligence agency, the Mossad, will neither deny nor accept responsibility for the murder of Hamas weapons dealer Mahmoud al-Mabhouh. But one of the alleged Dubai assassins, a man working under the alias Michael Bodenheimer, left traces in Cologne, Germany and Herzliya, Israel.

The man who came into the Cologne citizen registry office in early summer 2009 was in a hurry. He introduced himself as Michael Bodenheimer and requested a national identity card and a German passport.

He was an Israeli citizen, he explained -- he had moved to Germany in mid-June. He offered proof in form of an Israeli passport that had been issued in Tel Aviv in November 2008. As proof of his eligibility for German citizenship, he provided the marriage certificate of his parents, who had fled Germany to escape the Nazis. According to the Article 116 of the German constitution, "former citizens of Germany, and their descendants, are entitled to German citizenship."

On June 18, 2009, the man picked up his passport and national identity card. Eight months later, police in Dubai identified Michael Bodenheimer as one of the alleged killers of Hamas weapons dealer Mahmoud al-Mabhouh. The man had used the German passport he procured in Cologne to enter the United Arab Emirates. ... Link