So, in all this uproar about Israel allegedly using fake passports to get Mossad agents into Dubai to kill a Hamas terrorist, the part of the story that will be utterly ignored is that the ex-terrorist was in Dubai on a fake Iraqi passport given to him by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard.
Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, the Hamas commander assassinated in Dubai, used the same tradecraft – fraudulent passports and disguises – as his killers during secret missions to procure arms for the group, a confidant said on Thursday.
And that wasn’t his only fake passport.
“He had many passports of different nationalities – all Arab,” he added. “Recently he underwent surgery to reshape his nose. It became narrower.”
And what does Dubai’s famous police inspector, who simply cannot stop insisting that he’s found more and more Mossad agents sneaking into his country, say about the possibility that the terrorist, too, was on a fake passport?
Dubai police have not commented officially on the passport Mahbouh used to enter the emirate. Mabhouh’s brother said the Hamas commander arrived in Dubai on a Palestinian passport that listed his family name as Hassan.
Uh-huh. And of that new list of suspects, two of them supposedly left Dubai on a ship headed for Iran. Because that would be such deep, safe cover for Mossad agents, who wouldn’t suspect them of being, say, Iranians? You simply have to love the AP spin on this fact (buried, of course, in the next-to-last paragraph):
Although Dubai’s police chief, Lt. Gen. Dahi Khalfan Tamim, has said he was nearly “100 per cent” certain that Mossad masterminded the killing, the new details added at least one incongruous wrinkle: Two of the suspects allegedly left Dubai on a ship bound for Iran, Israel’s archenemy, a seemingly unlikely move for alleged Israeli agents.
To recap: The Dubai police chief says he now has nearly 30 suspects. He has submitted nothing other than passports and photos. There is no evidence whatsoever linking these people to the killing. But now, we have a description that two of them fled to Iran for safety after the killing. Who flees to Iran for safety? Well, Iranian and Iranian-backed terrorists, just to name two groups. Either that, or Inspector al-Clouseau is simply pulling names out of his ass and accusing them of being Mossad agents. The only people arrested so far are Palestinians, including two members of Hamas. And yet, the world media is whipping the “Israel Done It” story, serving as judge and jury:
So far, no one in Israel or abroad has come forward to identify themselves as the people who appear in the photographs and to assert their innocence, further suggesting the people in the photographs were indeed connected to the killing.
Or maybe they’re not going to come forward because it would make them targets for terrorists, what with the Dubai police insisting that they’re part of the team that assassinated Mabhouh. Not that it matters. The spin is still anti-Israel on this one, even though a known terrorist and arms dealer is dead.
Funny, but outside the media, world opinion is measured in other ways. Sales of Mossad-themed t-shirts are up worldwide. I’ve noticed that many comments threads on these news stories have far more support of Israel and far less Israel-bashers than the average. So maybe, just maybe, the people brainwashed by the anti-Israel media are starting to get it.
And in a final bit of irony, this news story just came to my notice:
Shark-filled aquarium in Dubai mall springs leak
One shark down. Many, many to go.
The “Mossad used British Jews’ passports” is silly on its face.
If the Mossad had done it, you know they’d use Fatah terrorists’ passports or maybe, as someone
at the Jawas said, “They would have used French passports”.
I don’t see them making some random Jews’ lives difficult.
It always seems to me that Mossad types have a good sense of humor, I can see them laughing
their butts off as they use Abu Jihad’s Jordanian passport.
Wasn’t there a [false] report a while ago that Ah-me-get-i’m-a-nut of Iran was Jewish? I bet those crafty Zionists not only control the US Congress and the Presidency and the Boy Scouts … they also secretly run Iran too!
Seriously, I stopped paying REAL attention to the story when Dubai said there were 11 members of the hit team. Mossad is never that sloppy. And now there are 29 hit team members? This is really a cover-up for movie, isn’t it?
Of course the MainStreamMedia thinks this is “extremely serious”. They also think it is horrendous that Jewish people ever lived in Hebron.
More and more the World seems someplace absurd out of “Tristam Shandy” by Laurence Sterne.