Did The Israeli Mossad Assassinate the HAMAS Leader In Dubai?

My dear readers I wrote a book called Laguna. It was about a man who spent 20 years in the Israeli Mossad as a terrorist catcher and assassin. In a normal Mossad "hit" a three-person Yarid team keeps the target under surveillance for weeks or even months before the execution takes place. One would never see deep-cover Mossad agents allowing themselves to be photographed anywhere.My intuitive feeling is that the Iranians set this up to embarrass Israel and to get rid of a leader they found problematic.

Did Israel's Mossad Assassinate a HAMAS Military

Leader in Dubai?

February 17, 2010
by Jerry Gordon
Source: The Iconoclast or
http://www.redcounty.com/did-israels-mossad-assassinate-a-hamas-military-leader-dubai/36964

A mysterious hit team of 11, including a woman, fly into Dubai from several European locations on January 19th with fake Irish, British, France and German passports. Posing as businessmen and tourists, some dressed in tennis togs, they efficiently tracked, forced entry and assassinated a top Hamas Military leader, allegedly involved in supply of Iranian arms and weapons to the Palestinian terror group in Gaza. After completing the hit they left a 'do not disturb sign' on the target’s Dubai hotel room and left for several destinations. A smiling woman of the hit team was caught on a CCTV film clip, as were the activities of the other members of the team. That is the likely scenario given the fascinating reports of this latest alleged Mossad assassination mission. Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, a senior Hamas military wing leader was likely lured from his long term home in Damascus to Dubai by prospects of another Iranian arms deal. At least that this speculation in a Times on-line article, Mossad murder mystery has plenty of red herrings. Note this comment:

While Israel once used to trumpet its successes, mostly against Palestinian groups responsible for terrorist attacks, in recent years it has become more circumspect, in part because the nature of the game is changing. No longer are high-profile hits meant to deliver a warning to PLO groups or a morale boost at home: now, Mossad is chiefly engaged against a far more dangerous enemy, Iran.

Al-Mabhouh’s assassination has all of the hallmarks of a classic Mossad hit straight out of the pages of a Daniel Silva Mossad thriller, with fictional kidon team leader, Gabriel Allon, whose cover is as an internationally renowned art restorer.
It would appear from reports that several British residents in Israel had their identity stolen and used for forged passports for the hit team, thereby providing the ultimate shield of deniability. Irish and British authorities quickly indicated that the passports were forgeries. The Dubai police authorities have issued arrest warrants in the names of the forged passport holders, who appear to have been made up to resemble the original holders.

The Israeli secret service has a reputation for rigorous screening, training of efficient, but ruthless assassination teams as noted by Gordon Thomas, author of Gideon’s Spies, Mossad's licence to kill : in a UK Telegraph article,
In the past year, al-Mabhouh had moved to the top of Mossad's list of targets, each of which must be legally approved under guidelines laid down over half a century ago by Meir Amit, the most innovative and ruthless director-general of the service. Born in Tiberius, King Herod's favourite city, Amit had established the rules for assassination.

'There will be no killing of political leaders, however extreme they are. They must be dealt with politically. There will be no killing of a terrorist's family unless they are also directly implicated in terrorism. Each execution must be sanctioned by the incumbent prime minister. Any execution is therefore state-sponsored, the ultimate judicial sanction of the law. The executioner is no different from the state-appointed hangman or any other lawfully-appointed executioner.'

I first met Amit in 2001 and through him, I talked to the spies of Mossad, the katsas, and finally, to the assassins, the kidon, who take their name from the Hebrew word for bayonet. They helped me write the only book approved by Mossad, Gideon's Spies. Amit said the book 'tells like it was â€' and like it is'.
Amit showed me a copy of those rules at our first meeting. After two years of training in the Mossad academy at Herzlia near Tel Aviv, each recruit to the kidon is given a copy.

The killing in Dubai is a classic example of how Mossad goes about its work. Al-Mabhouh's 11 assassins had been chosen from the 48 current kidon, six of whom are women.

It has yet to be established how al-Mabhouh was killed, but kidon's preference is strangling with wire, a well-placed car bomb, an electric shock or one of the poisons created by Mossad scientists at their headquarters in a Tel Aviv suburb.
The plan to assassinate Mahmoud al-Mabhouh had been finalised in a small conference room next to the office of Meir Dagan, who has run Mossad for the past eight years. The 10th director-general, Dagan has a reputation as a man who would not hesitate to walk into a nameless Arab alley with no more than a handgun in his pocket.
Only he knows how many times he has asked a prime minister for legal permission to kill a terrorist who could not be brought to trial in an Israeli court, along with the kidon to whom he shows the legally stamped document, the licence to kill.
Note Thomas’ comments about the Mossad kidon hit on Hezbollah terrorist mastermind Imad Mugniyeh in Damascus two years ago.

Two years ago this week, Dagan sent a team of kidon to Damascus to assassinate Imad Mughniyeh. His Mossad file included details of organising the kidnapping of Terry Waite and the bombing of the US Marine base near Beirut airport, killing 241 people. The United States had placed a £12.5 million bounty on his head. Dagan just wanted him dead.

Mossad psychiatrists, psychologists, behavioural scientists, psychoanalysts and profilers’ collectively known as the 'specialists' were told to decide the best way to kill Mughniyeh.

They concluded that he would be among the guests of honour at the Iranian Cultural Centre celebrations in 2008 for the celebration of the Khomeini Revolution. The team rigged a car-bomb in the headrest of the Mitsubishi Pajero they discovered Mughniyeh had rented, to be detonated by a mobile phone. As Mughniyeh arrived outside the Culture Centre at precisely 7pm on February 12, the blast blew his head off.
At Mughniyeh's funeral in Beirut, his mother, Um-Imad, sat among a sea of black chadors, a sombre old woman, who wailed that her son had planned to visit her on the day after he died. She cried out she had no photograph to remember him by. Two days later she received a packet. Inside was his photograph. It had been posted in Haifa.
The Mugniyeh and the al-Mabhouh are part of the Israeli secret war directed at foiling Iran’s ambitions in the Middle East, as depicted by Israel Investigative Journalist, Ronen Bergman in The Secret War with Iran Al Quds force leaders of the Revolutionary Guards engaged in the secret war against Israel and the US have got to be concerned about this latest Mossad hit. After all many of the Revolutionary Guard leaders have ‘boat holds’ in Dubai where they also transferred funds for a rainy day, should the Islamic Republic Regime fall. What the Mossad secret war objective may be is to destabilize the Revolutionary Guard leadership in Iran by demonstrating that they are not safe to travel abroad for fear of being “turned” by Western and Israeli intelligence services or targeted for assassination..
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