The truth about the Mossad The recent, outlandish assassination in Dubai may prove the most damaging yet in the Mossads history of high-profile, bungled operations. How did it squander its reputation for ruthless brilliance? The Mossad, like other intelligence services, tends to attract attention only when something goes wrong, or when it boasts a spectacular success and wants to send a warning signal to its enemies. Last months assassination of a senior Hamas official in Dubai, now at the centre of a white-hot diplomatic row between Israel and Britain, is a curious mixture of both. With its cloned foreign passports, multiple disguises, state-of-the-art communications and the murder of alleged arms smuggler Mahmoud al-Mabhouh – one of the few elements of the plot that was not captured on the emirates CCTV cameras – it is a riveting tale of professional chutzpah, violence and cold calculation. And with the Palestinian Islamist movement now vowing to take revenge, it seems grimly certain that it will bring more bloodshed in its wake. The images from Dubai follow the biblical injunction (and the Mossads old motto):By way of deception thou shalt make war. The agencys job, its website explains more prosaically, is to collect information, analyse intelligence and perform special covert operations beyond [Israels] borders. Source : theguardian/world/2010/feb/19/ian-black-mossad-dubai
Posted on: Sun, 09 Mar 2014 08:21:32 +0000