The Chief of Dubai's Secret Police made his Ph.D. dissertation in detection (a way of saying) on the liquidation of one of Israel enemies, Mah'booh something, and then left to Mecca on peregrination. He published the passport pictures of 26 suspects of being members of the Mossad team that participated in the successful operation (pic: one of them). Two of them left Dubai towards Iran. Iran? I used to think that these things are done by one or two agents, not by large teams, but what do I know? I am glad that we have these people and we are actively fighting (and killing) our enemies.
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Teamwork in Dubai
The Chief of Dubai's Secret Police made his Ph.D. dissertation in detection (a way of saying) on the liquidation of one of Israel enemies, Mah'booh something, and then left to Mecca on peregrination. He published the passport pictures of 26 suspects of being members of the Mossad team that participated in the successful operation (pic: one of them). Two of them left Dubai towards Iran. Iran? I used to think that these things are done by one or two agents, not by large teams, but what do I know? I am glad that we have these people and we are actively fighting (and killing) our enemies.
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There were just 11 suspects, the number has grown to 26, soon any male with a British passport and looking like a professor from the 60s will be a suspect. As for the likely females, they absolutely must have auburn tresses, no blondies or Falasha girls need apply.
The whole thing is puzzling. On the one hand, 26 agents seems to be quite excessive and leaving the country via Iran seems especially strange and risky. On the other hand, all signs point to Mossad - who else would have had access to the identities of all those Israeli dual citizens whose identities were used? Maybe this was some kind of a training mission in undercover operations - a practicum for the students of intelligence, a low risk field operation to get agents comfortable with traveling abroad under cover. A class trip for the graduating class of the Mossad academy? Otherwise it makes no sense to use this many agents.
Keep in mind that Mossad, like any intelligence service, always teeters on that fine line between superhuman agents undertaking daring feats of cunning and a bunch of bumbling bureaucratic clowns in over their head. Depending on the success of any operation (and the truly successful ones you may never even know of - Mabhouh was at first thought to have had a heart attack) the same people are one or the other on any given day.
K
I suspect they forgot to pay off the Chief of the Secret Police of Dubai, or he choose Fame instead of Money. I also suspect that most of the 26 were discovered not in this operation but in several former ones but el-Tamimi decided to publish them now that the international floodlights are focused on him. Pity for the 26 good passports that cannot be used again. I think the faces are easily made irrecognizible. According to the ages it cannot be a Mossad class, there are too many older people.
A boondoggle perhaps so many Mossad agents can take free vacations to HK, Europe, etc. (with a stop in Dubai) at Israeli government expense? It seems impossible to me that 26 were needed to take out one man who did not even have any bodyguards, so there has to be another explanation (possibly that there were never 26 to begin with, at least not on this mission). The risk of security breach go up with each person who has knowledge of the mission which is why such matters are usually kept on a "need to know" basis with as few people "in the loop" as possible, at least from what I read in spy novels.
I think the prudent course for Israel at this point is just to deny publicly and leave it at that. Unless truly irrefutable proof can be established, the other countries involved can posture publicly (in order to satisfy certain constituencies, e.g. the anti-Semites of England, who are ever present) but the matter will end there. Certainly the individual agents involved are unlikely ever to be identified - they were disguised in both the passport photos (note all the beards and glasses) and on the cameras. Still it is clear that in today's age of surveillance, Mossad will have to up its game in the future.
K
The surveillance cameras of Dubai were manufactured and programmed by companies related to Israel. But Dubai was too easy going so no one thought that they will work so hard to check the records.
Israel has been lucky in its enemies so far. The Arabs on its borders have always been some combination of lazy and disorganized and corrupt and ignorant or all of the above. Let's hope it stays that way.
Even now, the Dubai Chief of Police did not strike me as a rocket scientist. It seemed to me that in his initial presentation, he actually assumed that the passports were genuine.
I've now read that not only were the passports fake but the photos were subtly photoshopped to make identification more difficult (but not so much as to arouse the suspicions of an immigration officer quickly glancing at it). The eye colors have been changed, the lip lines have been retouched, etc. We already knew that the people were disguised with glasses and beards (and the women with wigs). So one of the Mossad agents could be your next door neighbor and you still wouldn't recognize him from the photos. Certainly not to the point where such a photo could be used to secure a conviction in a criminal court.
There is one agent that I find particularly haunting - it is the one who posed as "Melvyn Mildiner". To me he is a clearly recognizable Israeli type - the shtarker. He has a sadistic grin in the photo and a very thick neck. I would wager that he is the one who personally choked the life out of Mabhouh and that as he did, he wore that same grin. I am glad that the Jewish people have such men. If the early Zionists wanted to burn the shtetl out of the Jews in the Middle Eastern sun (the way a window in the flour silo would kill the fungus) then they are smiling now from socialist heaven when they see Jews such as "Melvyn".
K
The passport pic of Melvyn Mildiner is a brazen photoshop work. Have you observed that all the pics seem to be smiling/laughing? I dont think this is what Early Zionists desired. They wanted peasants and factory workers, not international secret agents in disguise. This is a degeneration of the Zionist ideal, admittedly forced by the circumstances.
They electrocuted the enemy of the Jewish people with the cord from a table lamp. If you apply the voltage just right across the chest you can induce fibrillation and make it look like a heart attack. Then they strangled him for good measure. They were in and out of his room in 10 minutes, taking time only to photograph his papers. Then they closed the door and latched the chain from the inside (a lady with thin arms can do this trick). Is this not a form of honest labor, I ask you?
K
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