Inspector Clouseau is on the Dubai case

You have to love the gathering of evidence that the Dubai police insist “prove” that the Mossad was involved.

In an interview to Emirati paper al-Bayan published on Monday, Tamim said that “despite Israel’s attempts at denial, claiming there is no evidence that a Mossad cell carried out the assassination, the Dubai police are in possession of dozens of items of incriminating evidence against the cell which attest to the Mossad’s involvement.”

So what is the evidence?

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.

Um…what? Israel might have printers that can print passports? Holy crap! Alert the media! We’ve found the smoking gun!

Here’s my favorite quote:

The police chief added with satisfaction that this is the first time the Arab spectator has been able to witness the “crime of assassination.”

Yes, because it’s not like Arabs have assassinated other Arabs, like, say, Anwar Sadat, Rafik Hariri, King Abdullah of Jordan—you get the picture.

But we do have a clear picture of what the world thinks of Israel having the ability to kill terrorists both in and out of her borders. If Israel captures them and jails them, the world insists that Israel is jailing people for political purposes. If Israel kills them while trying to capture and jail them, the world says that Israel should not have used deadly force to capture the accused terrorists, who may not have been all that bad anyway. If Israel kills them in Gaza or the West Bank, the world says that Israel has no right to use extrajudicial killings even if the terrorists were “ticking bombs” on their way to a suicide attack. If they were just the planners of the attacks? Well, then Israel has no right to kill them because they didn’t technically kill anyone (cf: Sheik Yassin and the news reports that emphasized that Israel killed a paraplegic instead of one of the founders of Hamas). And if Israel acts outside of her own borders, well, then the wire services put out new stories every day, major world newspapers publish big exposes in their Sunday papers (professional liar Uzi Mahnaimi was once again published in the Sunday Times, using his unnamed sources to spin his own fantasy story of what happened in Dubai), various nations around the world publish “Shame on Israel” statements, and the crowd, in effect, goes wild.

Meantime, Pakistani intelligence and the CIA have captured or killed some major Taliban leaders in the last week or two, and after the initial flurry of stories, there’s been—nothing. Civilians are dying in Afghanistan, but that’s not interesting to the world media. Because a terrorist may have been assassinated by the Mossad.

Once again, we see the world’s reaction to Jews who defend themselves vigorously. It’s the only explanation as to why there are currently more than 8,000 articles on Google News about Mahmoud al-Mabhouh and less than half of that number on the NATO airstrike that killed 27 civilians.

Gee. I wonder why.