Ripples of Dubai Killing Spread Across Region

[brown77]

Originally Posted by incarcerated

Two U.S.-based companies issued the credit cards used by operatives in the assassination of Mahmoud Al-Mabhouh, police in Dubai announced Jan. 24. Payoneer, a New York-based company with operations in Tel Aviv, Israel, that issues pre-paid credit cards to companies for use instead of paychecks or bank transfers reportedly provided the pre-paid cards used to buy plane tickets and hotel rooms for the operatives. All of Payoneer’s credit cards are issued through Metabank, based in the U.S. state of Iowa.

An examination of Payoneer’s operations reveals interesting links with Israel. Payoneer CEO Yuval Tal is a former member of the Israel Defense Forces’ special operations forces.

This does not conclude anything. Tel Aviv is the startup capital of the world. There are countless websites operating out of Tel Aviv, providing services to customers from every corner of the globe, including the Middle East. Dubai and Iran (yep) being no exception! Plus, the fact that Yuval Tal is former IDF SF isn't especially telling, since full-on military service is compulsory for all citizens and just about every Israeli CEO has been in some special branch or other. So if the deposits were made into Metabank with the same 'fake' passports used for ID it still could have been anybody.

[incarcerated]

Originally Posted by brown77

This does not conclude anything....

That is correct.
No one here is drawing any conclusions.

[brown77]

Originally Posted by incarcerated

That is correct.
No one here is drawing any conclusions.

True, that's why I like it here!

[Richard]

Dubai police said on Friday they have DNA proof of the identity of one of the killers of a senior Hamas leader in the emirate last month, according to an AFP newswire report.

Neeraj Gangal, UAE Arabian Business, 27 Feb 2010

http://www.arabianbusiness.com/58244...iller---report

And so it goes...

Richard

[incarcerated]

Originally Posted by Richard

Dubai police said on Friday they have DNA proof of the identity of one of the killers of a senior Hamas leader in the emirate last month, according to an AFP newswire report.

Neeraj Gangal, UAE Arabian Business, 27 Feb 2010

http://www.arabianbusiness.com/58244...iller---report

Eastern standards of journalism:
From the UAE Arabian Business article:

Dubai police have DNA proof of Hamas man's killer - report
Dubai police said on Friday they have DNA proof of the identity of one of the killers of a senior Hamas leader in the emirate last month, according to an AFP newswire report….
"We have DNA evidence ... from the crime scene. The DNA of the criminals is there," police chief Dhahi Khalfan said on the Arab satellite television Al-Arabiya.
He said police had "categorical DNA proof on one of the assassins" and fingerprint evidence from several other suspects, providing "100 percent" proof of their identities, AFP added….
Two Palestinians suspected of providing logistical support were in detention and Dubai's police chief has said he believes the operation could not have been carried out without information from inside Hamas on Mabhouh's travel details.

It’s one thing to have DNA, and another to have a match. That is very doubtful.

From the Opinion section of The Jordan Times, and the News section of The Teheran Times, where the jury has spoken:

http://www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=215056
http://www.jordantimes.com/index.php?news=24295

Israel’s path of self-destruction

February 28, 2010
By Hasan Abu Nimah
The assassination of Hamas official Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in Dubai almost certainly by a death squad dispatched by Israel's Mossad, is by no means the first such aggression against the sovereignty of another state. While Israel has literally gotten away with murder thousands of times, was this one killing too far?
Israel has a long, bloody history of murder, sabotage and outright terrorism all over Europe, in Beirut, Tunis, Amman, Damascus and now Dubai. And that is just what we know about. All of this is allegedly in “self-defense” against “terrorism” even though the Zionist movement in Palestine invented the sort of modern terrorism for which the Middle East became known….
Mossad, the Israeli intelligence and international murder agency, has a long history of using fake and stolen passports of countries including Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Ireland and Germany….

[incarcerated]

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1152834.html

Report: Hamas chief survived two earlier assassination attempts

By Haaretz Service and Reuters
Last update - 22:39 28/02/2010
Hamas commander Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, who was killed last month in a Dubai hotel, faced two previous assassination attempts in recent years, Hamas officials said, according to a report Sunday on Channel 2 news.

Mabhouh was poisoned last year and, previously, was the target of a shooting in Lebanon, Abu Dhabi-based newspaper the National reported on Friday.

Mabhouh was found dead in his Dubai hotel room on January 20 in what police say they are almost certain was a hit by Israel's Mossad spy agency.

The National report said Mabhouh was half-conscious when he was admitted to hospital last May and was treated for dizziness, but had no fever. X-rays showed Mabhouh had a lung infection and was treated with antibiotics. He was released on May 10.

"We always lived with the possibility that Mabhouh could be killed at any time due to the sensitivity of his job," Osama Hamdan, a senior Hamas official in Lebanon and a relative of Mabhouh, told the National.

Meanwhile, Dubai police on Sunday said Mabhouh's killers drugged him before suffocating him, Dubai police said on Sunday.

The killers used a muscle relaxant to tranquillize Mabhouh before suffocating him, said deputy police chief Khamis al-Mazeina, quoted by the Dubai police website....

Israel has not denied or confirmed it played any role but Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has said there was nothing to link Israel to the killing.

On Saturday, Dubai's chief of police called on Mossad director Meir Dagan to "be a man" and admit that Israel's espionage agency was behind the January 20 assassination.

[Team Sergeant]

LOL, I could just see US Special Operations personnel giving this sort of briefback,

"Sir, were' going to take 26 guys and kill this dirt-bag and..."

"WHAT, HOW MANY !@#$%@^%$^&%&#%^*%^# SPECIAL FORCES PERSONNEL DOES IT TAKE TO KILL ONE LONE DIRTBAG????? YOU GUYS ARE KIDDING ME RIGHT?"

Very sloppy work, Inspector Clouseau would have figured this one out.

TS




Dubai Hamas assassination: 12 suspects carried British passports
Dubai police have named a further six Britons whose cloned passports were used in the killing of a top Hamas agent last month, as they raised the number of those involved in the assassination to 26.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...passports.html

[incarcerated]

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...s_Most_Popular

Two Dubai Suspects Traveled to U.S.

MIDDLE EAST NEWS
MARCH 1, 2010
By CHIP CUMMINS
DUBAI—At least two of the 26 suspects sought by Dubai police for the alleged killing of a top Hamas leader appear to have entered the U.S. shortly after his death, according to people familiar with the situation.

Records shared between international investigators show that one of the suspects entered the U.S. on Feb. 14, carrying a British passport, according to a person familiar with the situation. The other suspect, carrying an Irish passport, entered the U.S. on Jan. 21, according to this person. Senior Hamas leader Mahmoud al-Mabhouh's body was found in a Dubai hotel room on Jan. 20.

There aren't records of either man leaving the U.S., though investigators can't be sure the two are still in the country, according to this person. Since the two were traveling with what investigators believe to be fraudulently issued passports, they may have traveled back out of the U.S. with different, bogus travel documents.

The suspected U.S. travel broadens to American shores the international manhunt triggered by Dubai's investigation into the death of Mr. Mabhouh. Dubai police have already identified two U.S. financial companies they believe issued and distributed several credit cards used by 14 of the suspects in the alleged killing.

A U.S. State Department spokesman declined to comment.

A spokesman for Interpol, which is also investigating the murder, declined to comment....

The U.A.E. government would seek the extradition of any suspects found in the U.S., said an Emirati official. If Israel was implicated, the Obama administration's relationship with that of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu could come under further strain. Washington and Israel have publicly sparred in recent months on issues related to the resumption of peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians. The Obama administration says it is continuing to work with Israel on the possible resumption of peace talks, and U.S. officials say they are "hopeful" that negotiations can resume shortly.

According to the person familiar with the matter, one of the suspects, traveling with a British passport identifying him as Roy Allan Cannon, entered the U.S. on Feb. 14. Another suspect, traveling as Irishman Evan Dennings, entered the country on Jan. 21, a day after Mr. Mabhouh's body was discovered....

[Richard]

Canada has its hockey - Israel has its Mossad - it seems as if a little nationalism goes a long ways for retailers wherever they set up shop.

Richard's $.02

Israelis Rush To Join Mossad After Mahmoud al-Mabhouh Killing
Sheera Frenkel, Times, 27 Feb 2010

Would you be prepared to cross-dress? And kill a guest in an adjacent hotel room? If the answer to these questions is a resounding “yes”, and you can also act, enjoy luxury international travel with a twist and can carry off a convincing Irish or Australian accent, then the job could be yours.

The Israeli spy agency Mossad may be the target of international reproach since it allegedly killed the Hamas leader Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in a Dubai hotel this month, but at home emerging details of the operation have generated Mossad mania.

It has never been more popular in Israel, with stores selling out of Mossad memorabilia and its official website reporting a soaring number of visitors interested in applying to become agents. “Mossad has been restored to its glory days,” said Ilan Mizrahi, a former deputy director of the agency, which is located in the affluent beach town of Herzliya, north of Tel Aviv.

Israel has neither confirmed nor denied its involvement in Mr al-Mabhouh’s death — despite increasingly confident announcements by Dubai police that they have linked Mossad to the killing. Of the 28 suspects named, 11 share identities with Israelis who hold dual citizenship.

Governments across the world are lambasting Israel for what it considers a sloppy job done by agents who were caught on CCTV and may have left behind DNA. In Israel, the operation is being touted as a job well done. Israelis are discussing the killing with a wink, a nod, and pride in the agency, offically known as the Institute for Intelligence and Special Operations.

Opticians have reported a rise in sales of the horn-rimmed glasses in the style worn by 14 of the 26 suspects, T-shirts with Mossad logos are selling out at stores and the agency has experienced a flood of applicants.

Although no new jobs have been posted for half a year, a new statement on the Mossad website reads: “You have an opportunity to create a new reality where you can play the leading role. If you possess intelligence and sophistication, you can make a difference and fulfil a national mission. If you can engage, charm and influence people — you may have the qualities we are looking for.”

Elad, 21, had been dreaming of joining Mossad for years, but filed an application this week, the news site Ynet reported. “I ran to a computer and applied for a job,” Elad told Ynet. “I’ve always had a dream to work for the Mossad. It’s obvious why – it’s exciting, dangerous and special. Nobody really knows what people do there, and now I suddenly understand how it works. It’s cool. I hope they accept me. I think I have all the required skills.”

The Mossad website says that candidates must hold an academic degree and good command of at least two languages. Preference is given to people with experience abroad and an ability to begin work immediately.

If the reports by Dubai police are correct, the assassination and surveillance team of nearly 30 agents so far exposed would represent a sizeable number of Mossad agents who would no longer be able to engage in covert espionage.

Photographs of the alleged assassins have been published across the world and studied by a number of governments.

An inquiry by Haaretz newspaper announced this week that the photographs were doctored so that the agents could not be identified. Details such as eye colour or contours of the nose and lips were altered slightly to make it difficult for facial recognition software to identify the individuals, Haaretz said.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle7043239.ece

[incarcerated]

Originally Posted by Richard

[COLOR="Orange"]Canada has its hockey - Israel has its Mossad - it seems as if a little nationalism goes a long ways for retailers wherever they set up shop.

OMG. It’s a good thing Israel didn’t medal in Curling.

[Marina]

This is ludicrous. Like most Arab countries, Dubai doesn't recognize the right of Israel to exist. People cannot enter the country with an Israeli passport.

Dubai police chief is a sock puppet for Iranian Jew baiters.

I think all this "outing" of foreign agents in Dubai is probably a house cleaning of any Israeli known to be operating in the emirate.

From the NYT blog

Dubai Police Chief Says He Knows an Israeli When He Sees One

Dubai’s police chief, Gen. Dahi Khalfan al-Tamim, said on Monday that the famously open city may soon block people who look or sound like Israelis from entering, no matter what passport they produce.

Until now, the police chief told a local newspaper, Dubai had allowed Israelis with dual citizenship to use a second passport to enter the emirate. That may change, though, after the police in Dubai found that 27 suspects in the assassination of a visiting Hamas official were found to have traveled on forged British, Irish, French, German and Australian passports.

The National, an Abu Dhabi newspaper, reported on Monday that Mr. Tamim “claimed the police could identify Israelis by physical features and the way they speak.”

“It is easy for us to identify [Israelis], through their face or when they speak any other language,” the police chief told the newspaper. “We used to respect them [are you kidding me?] when they would come holding European passports; we regarded them as Europeans and never treated them badly. But from now on, anyone we suspect to have a dual citizenship, they will be treated with great suspicion.”

The newspaper did not report if it asked Mr. Tamim to put his Israeli-spotting prowess to the test, but the idea that a person’s ethnic group can be identified by the way they speak has deep roots in the Middle East.

[The Reaper]

Does he know a terrorist he is harboring when he sees him?

TR

[incarcerated]

Got a live one...
http://www1.voanews.com/english/news...-87617222.html

Israel Arrests Senior Hamas Commander

VOA News
14 March 2010
The Israeli military says it has arrested a senior commander of the Palestinian faction Hamas after he spent more than a decade on the run.

Israeli troops and the Shin Bet security service caught Maher Uda overnight Saturday near the West Bank town of Ramallah.

Uda has been on Israel's most wanted list since the 1990s. He is considered a founding member of the Hamas military branch in the West Bank. Israel blames him for the deaths of at least 70 Israelis....

[Dozer523]

Originally Posted by Richard

Dubai police said on Friday they have DNA proof of the identity of one of the killers of a senior Hamas leader in the emirate last month, according to an AFP newswire report.]And so it goes...Richard

Now quit dissing Dubai police work!
At least someone remembered the rape kit.

[Richard]

Now quit dissing Dubai police work!
At least someone remembered the rape kit.

Sounds as if Lieutenant al-Franqua bin-Columbo is on the job.

Richard