Eleven-Man Team Assassinates Hamas Commander (Updated)
(See update at end of article.)
Last month, on the night of January 19, Hamas military commander Mahmoud al-Mabhouh arrived in Dubai, oddly without his bodyguards. He checked into the five-star Al-Bustan Rotana Hotel. He was allegedly on a weapons-buying trip.
A little after midnight that same night, eleven European tourists arrived at the Dubai airport carrying tennis rackets and various kinds of sporting equipment, apparently on vacation. Images of the group were captured on CCTV cameras at the airport.
The following afternoon, one of the eleven European tourists checked into the Al-Bustan Rotana Hotel, specifically into room 237 located directly across the hall from where al-Mabhouh was staying in room 230. Throughout the day, all eleven Europeans roamed around the luxury hotel. CCTV camera footage released by the Dubai police shows one of the tourists entering a bathroom. When he emerges, he’s wearing a false beard and a baseball cap. The group was not made up of tourists; rather, they were an assassination team on a mission to kill the commander from Hamas. One member of the hit squad, a female, roams around the hotel in a dark wig, a floppy hat, and sunglasses.
That evening, a little after 8:00 p.m., Mabhouh arrived back at the hotel and immediately went to his room. According to Dubai’s chief of police Lieutenant General Dhahi Khalfan Tamim, forensic tests indicate that within the hour, Mabhouh was dead, having been suffocated to death. Two hours after the attack, the assassins left Dubai. They were in the country for only 19 hours.
For weeks, Dubai police quietly investigated the crime. And then earlier this week, Dubai police announced that through Interpol they had issued arrest warrants for the eleven European suspects, as well as six other people they say may have helped facilitate the crime. Dubai police also released the CCTV footage which has been captivating British TV audiences all week. The team of assassins, disguised with beards, hats, and tennis racquets, can be seen conducting surveillance around the hotel. Lieutenant General Tamim told reporters: “We have identified the suspects … and will take legal action against anyone or any party which will prove to stand behind the murder.”
I saw the footage of this from those hotels. Riveting to say the least. Whoever did it was professional. Maybe Mossad, maybe not–?
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Good riddance.
So, what’s so terrible about this? Yet another Muslim terrorist is dead. Perhaps if more terrorists knew what was in store for them if they decided to kill innocent men, women and children, then maybe there would be fewer terrorists? Whenever another member of al Qaeda, Hamas, or Hezbollah can be seen laying flat on a slab at room temperature it is a good day. Actions like these are the only things Muslim terrorists understand, and do fear. Count on it.
I don’t particularly cared who killed him. And I don’t look at his death as an assassination. I prefer to call it a “Service to Humanity”. Good Riddance to rubbish.
Why would Mossad use Israeli immigrants’ names?
Sounds weird to me.
To point a finger at themselves?
Seems more likely that Fatah did it, although they would most likely have screwed it up.
Michael
Bush was behind it! Well, thats what Barry told me.
Maybe Hamas wanted to get rid of one of their defecting military commanders so they set up a sloppy assassination and framed Israel for it. I mean COME ON!! One of the would-be assassins walked into a hotel bathroom in front of the cctv cameras and came out wearing a false beard and baseball cap? That sounds more like 1960′s spoof spy movies than Mossad. The world will want to believe it was Mossad anyway so very little western investigation into the affair will take place.
Israel will be guilty until proven innocent on this one.
I only wish that America could claim to have done it! Sadly, you absolutely KNOW that we didn’t. (sigh)
Nice job. On to the next. BTW, why was this Palestinian living so high on the hog while his people are so destitute?
On the national TV news, they only mentioned the Israeli angle (the likely suspect nation). Sounds strange that Israel would intentionally use a citizen’s name like that and risk his life in retaliation.
Looking at the ID theft industry, it is very believable that these are simply stolen identities purchased by someone. For enough money, you get the first X names on an ID thieves’ list. The underground economy on ID’s and stolen credit card numbers is huge and easily within the means of rival groups and not just nation states anymore.
When all is said and done, not only do I hope that Mossad, under Dagan’s fearless leadership, did the deed, but there is NO other agency in the world with more reason to have done so.
The fact of the matter is that this Hamas mega terrorist (among many, many others) deserved a lot more pain than any human being could have exacted on him. The fact that he was responsible for scores of Jewish deaths, AND was planning more, surely gives our vaunted Mossad more than enough extra judicial basis to eliminate him.
Dagan – hail to you and your men and women who executed this feat!
By the way, all those in the international community who wag their hypocritical fingers at the Mossad would do well to take an accounting of their own bloody legacies. To be sure, some of these waggers are sorry that he is not alive to kill more Jews, while others climb so high onto their hypocritical horses it is impossible for them to climb down. Either way they can shove it.
The chap had a lot of enemies. Mossad or some other Israeli group is strongly implicated, however.
Notice how none of the team held American passports.
#2
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Excellent hunting, whoever takes credit I have a nice Starbucks Gift Card for them!
“Those who live by the sword [...]“
Hamas has declared it intends to destroy Israel. Hamas continually attacks Israel. Why shed tears for a leader of this group? If you go to war against a legitimate government, don’t be surprised if that government strikes back!
No weapon of murder? No evidence? I guess Duke learned from false indictments also. All I saw was Lacroose fans in the cameras. Not even Laccrosse players. But I guess someone had a tennis racket. We will need to ban carry on tennis racquets from henceforth.
Good jobs guys, and gal. This guy really needed kill’n. The first round is on me.
Dead cockroach…
Unless they are trying to find out who did it to give them medals or cash awards for exterminating this vermin, they should less it go.
“There is no reason to think that it was the Israeli Mossad”
Nice verbal sleight of hand. After all, the Olympic-terrorist hit squads weren’t Mossad, either: they were Shin Bet.
I would phrase the argument differently: it’s not that Israel is the only government with a reason to snuff this pig, but rather it’s the only government with the testes to do so. Wen the CIA even toyed with the idea, Panetta freaked out and ran squawking to the press.
About time to rsurrect Project Phoenix, I say.
I hope it WAS Mossad, and I hope they successfully blame it on HAMAS!
Now, THAT is justice!
Let me get this straight, the world’s media with some notable exceptions are taking Hamas and their accusations at face value?
Kill an enemy terrorist? I believe that is called justice, or at least warfare. We do the same every day with drones. Keep up the good work, Mr. President, it seems to be the only good work you are doing.
What’s the big fuss about? Good that someone performed this favor for the rest of us. You can count on that it wasn’t the US. Who knows if it was the Israelis or not, they are just the logical whipping boys. Well, if they did it, good for them. They have a perfect right to defend themselves.
This plot would make a good movie…not a Hollywood movie for obvious reasons…but maybe something Luc Beeson could wrap his talents around…like his “Taken”. It would certainly be entertaining and perhaps as riveting as the hunt for Adolf Eichman decades ago. Of course this would entail portraying a muslim as a bloody murdering jihadist thereby upsetting the liberal establishment and agitating those hell bent on censorship a la Canada’s Human Rights Commissions. The movie would infuriate the multiculturalists, be condescendingly “thumbs downed” by Roger Ebert and be totally ignored by the “Academy”. Usually that means boffo at the box office.
So this guy admits to his involvement in kidnapping and murdering of two Israeli soldiers, is in Dubai buying arms for more of his murderous henchmen, and no doubt was involved and responsible for who knows how many deaths and misery in Gaza and elswhere…
…and there needs to be an international manhunt for his killers????
WHY?
Seems to me the world was done a great service by these “sanitation” workers:
Taking out the TRASH!
Assassination? Hardly…it was enabled martyrdom…
WOW – I think this website needs some full disclosure.
I am not a neocon Israeli apologist.
next???
uh, next?
FETEKE: Finde em, Torture em, Kill em. Works for me.
Not to nit pick, but since one of the team was a woman the term ‘Eleven man Team’ will probably result in a visit from the PC police.
G Marks:
Didn’t think so. You’re a pussy, boy.
Dubai authorities should sharply rebuked for allowing a known terrorist to conduct business in their country.
That said, I’m glad the hit was a success.
damned right… a 62 year old pussy
you prick
I just want to know how they locked the chain from the inside of the room then got out of the room.
G Marks:
You seem to be a bit touchy. I didn’t mean to demean you. Apparently you took offense at being referred to as a ‘boy’ . My mistake, girlie man.
G Marks:
Full disclosure? OK.
1) I didn’t do it.
2) I believe in the right of Israel to defend itself against people who think all Jews should be slaughtered, “driven into the sea”, or any such thing.
3) I won’t apologize for #2.
Did anyone else catch MSNBC Morning Joe this a.m. where the snapshots of the 11 “Mossad agents” was shown and photoshopped right next to them was a US Passport cover???? WTF is up with that???
G MARKS ‘a 62 year old pussy’…..not a very pretty picture. I presume that this was merely a figure of speech. By the way, by any chance might you be realted to Karl M?
I think ‘anatomy of an assasination’ is a bit exaggerated for a title. ‘A brief mention of an assasination’ is closer to the mark.
I don’t care who did it. I am just glad it was done!
11 man team? Why so many? Why so obvious? One or two could have done it. We’re not talking about Eichmann here. With Eichmann you had to first determine where he lived, capture him alive, determine if he was really the right guy, hold him for a week in secret, debrief him and then smuggle him aboard a plane under the noses of authorities. This prick could have been dispatched with a poison tipped umbrella. So why all the theatre?
Love those enhanced interrogation techniques, which is probably why it took 11 people playing war. You have to love all the handwringing by the diplomatic adults over the extra legal killing of an expert in extra legal killings and weapons procurement, weapons from the countries those adults live in. The whining is priceless.
Nightelf:
Featherbedding.
I’m with Paul-Indiana. Why was this, ‘Dead Man Walking’ staying in a luxury hotel? It’s as if he’d pulled an, ‘Arafat’, albeit for one night!
If these 11 Angels of Mercy can only make their way to Lebanon. I’ve wanted to revisit Beirut for sometime before it became a terrorist *ellhole!
Personally, I think it sounds like a suicide.
11 man team? Why so many?
There probably was a Plan A, a Plan B, a Plan C, and different specialists for each.
More than one way to skin a cat, you know
I blame Matt Damon
20:51 Mr Daveron leaves the hotel followed by the surveillance teams.
At 1:30 hotel staff find al-Mabhouh dead in his room with the door locked from the inside and the chain in place.
Ooops. Looks like no assination attempt. They would have had to bust the door down and break the chain.
a little theatrical, but well done.
#2…huh????
@50. seven
Eh, locks are for honest people, capisce?
One thing no one here has suggested: maybe it wasn’t Mossad, maybe it was Saudi Intelligence and Fatah.
Look, the whole Iran issue is really a problem for the Saudi’s and Fatah. After Israel and the US, the Saudi’s are their biggest target for hegemony over Islam regarding the whole Shiite-Sunni conflict and Hamas is increasingly destroying Fatah’s dominance over the West Bank (having already taken Gaza).
Iran with nukes, Iran with Hezbollah, Iran with Hamas, and Iran with Syria are not just existential threats to Israel but threats to the survival of both the Saudi’s and Hamas and they are as much a target as Israel.
Mossad probably wouldn’t have been spotted much at this (and it would’ve used a lot smaller team) but it looks like someone wants everyone to think it was them.
#8 Tony:
“Israel will be guilty until proven innocent on this one.”
Aren’t they always??
#10 Paul – Indiana
“…why was this Palestinian living so high on the hog while his people are so destitute?”
To quote WSJ Taranto (Best of the Web) – QUESTIONS NOBODY IS ASKING
47. Thomas_L……:
“Personally, I think it sounds like a suicide.”
If this guy were going to commit suicide, don’t you think he’d try to take as many infidels as he could??
Mossad will certainly get the blame, or credit. But aside from the outcome, it was a terribly planned operation, so much evidence left behind. So many needless details, like changing into disguises when you’ve already come in under disguise.
Most plausibly, it was suicide disguised as murder.
And then there is the bizarro outrage of how dare someone come into our country and kill a mass murderer we have as a guest.
Or am I watching too much Burn Notice? No, can’t watch too much Burn Notice.
The Dubai police are political hacks. No serious investigation. Just political decisions from rulers. Protect Palestinians.
nnnnnnnnooooooooooooooooo!!
If they are found…and I hope not…reward them!! applause, accolades!!!
Maybe the obvious evidence was on purpose…
Wayne;
All the people in the passport photos were European looking. The hit team would also have needed fluency in Arabic. I would say that pretty much implicates the Israelis.
Had the Israelis been a little sneakier, they would have made themselves up to look more Arab and used the faked passports of some other Arab nation. That would have scattered the suspicion and not pissed off the Europeans.
Now, what throws a monkey wrench into all these theories is why use the names of real dual-citizen Isrealis?
I’m just gonna say a hearty a-men to those wonderful murderers. They did in a killer of Jews. I like that and if the Dubai police chief wants to bust his gut over it, let him. More human trash will have been gotten rid of.
#60 Boojum;
The use of the real names of Israelis makes me doubt that it was Mossad. They don’t do “pretzel logic” in covers.
A more likely scenario is that it was Fatah, using some of their European “assets” to do the job, thereby (along with the forged IDs) blaming it on Mossad. That way, they get rid of a major player on the Hamas side, and also get to lay the blame on Israel. From their POV, that counts as a two-fer.
Most people don’t realize that while the various Palestinian groups are united in their hatred of Israel and the West, that’s also about the only thing they agree on. Otherwise (as the events in Gaza show) they more closely resemble to old Mafia prior to the Castellamarese War in the early Thirties. For instance, when you think of Gaza, Hamas, and Fatah, if you compare that situation now to Chicago during Prohibition under Al Capone and Dutch Schultz, you’ve got the general idea.
clear ether
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“Only thing that matters is that al-Mabhouh is dead and his assassins are safe”
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3850991,00.html
and according to Gordon Thomas knowledge of the Mossad “processes”, the Mabhouh assassination is typical for the agents
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/7254807/Mossads-licence-to-kill.html
Mabhouh was since long time ago a “target” to be eliminated, and Israel never forgets who are its enemies. It takes time sometimes to get the things done, but they were and still will be done.
Apparently in the international context, Israel needs such a “glorious” action to show that it will never perdon or leave the idea that it has gone “weak”.
No worry, UK, and the other countries that are outraged that the “agents” used their citizen passports, will soon forget about this event.
Probably that the Emirates will try to exploit it
Besides, what was doing Mabhouh in a international airport hotel ? it isn’t a place for holydays but for businesses !
which agencie would do that ? a professional one !
“The Dubai police investigation revealed that the cell members did not contact each other directly during their stay in the country, and didn’t do so before their arrival and after leaving as well. However, they spoke to each other by dialing to a communications center in Austria, which was referred to as “the assassins’ headquarters” by the Dubai police.”
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3850803,00.html
Terrible, terrible, terrible. Those darn Israelis (???). Just won’t play by the rules. They should have used a Hellfire missile launched from a Predator drone, and the world would have yawned, eh? Hey guys, get real. We’ve come a long, long way from the Holocaust, and when they say never again, you can bet your ass they mean it. TS.
Congratulations on a job well done. Some of the posters above noted that there were no U.S. passports used. Now that American passports have microchips they are harder to counterfeit. Also, as noted above, Mossad would not have used the names of their own citizens or Israeli’s living abroad, unless they were traitors like Rahm Emanuel. No, this appears to be a really good job by Fatah, or an acceptable job by an independent contractor.
Mossad agents would not have been photographed.
This just in……..another Palestinian terrorist, named Mahmouh Abba Dabba Du, is still dead. Film at eleven.
The only good terrorist is a dead terrorist.
This is what all Hammas terrorists should get.
This is just awful.
Smothering that poor bloke with a tennis racquet.
It would have taken hours to die.
Think of all the money and lives that could have been saved if we had just hired these guys to have had a “talk” with Saddam Hussein.
Wonder if they’re available for some contract work in Venezuela.
its a rough neighborhood shit happens, when you dine with cannibals you’re only safe till the next meal.
good for them, whoever them is. i don’t think it is the mossad, rather that it is hamas itself bumping off each other. the brits should really stfu and remove their faces that are buried in the groins of these perverted miscreants 24/7.
1 down, 1000s to go. Wish our country had the stones to do this. . . but with the “o”. . . no way!!
Guys, you’re all wrong! This assassination was carried out by the TV team of NCIS. I’m sure that if looked at closely Ziva will be identified as the woman on the hit team. When will the injustices sponsored by this television show ever stop!
Oops word just came down the pike. NBC and ABC have just filed charges against CBS’s television crew of NCIS. Demands by the two TV corporations include disclosure of the name of the censor who released the CCTV video of the NCIS team. CBS has countered with their own demands of the name of the person who released this section of video before formal airing on their regular NCIS episode. Needless to say the whole TV world is in turmoil over this whole thing. HBO is still to be heard from. Turner Broadcasting has chimed in “this assassination has the earmark of NCIS after all assassination is their business.
Question : how do we [or the media] know for sure that the “victim” was actually killed ? It may not have been Mossad – it may not have been a hit at all.
Just saying…..
Maybe it was us?
Nah.
Good dream.
That was before the bloody “Democrats” emasculated, feminized and/or homosexualized and politicized our intelligence services.
B A :. – L A – CA — and Far Away
TimV;
Border guards would be able to pick out fake passports of their own nation but it is doubtful they could tell if a foreign passport is fake.
I think a jealous husband did it.
Lets review. There is no way the Dubai police could have looked at so many different CCTV films in the time they reportedly did so. I doubt Israel would have done this in the showcase city of a moderate Arab state. The disguises were amateurish at best and why would they be donned AFTER arriving in Dubai by professional operatives? Someone with experience in this type of work would never have allowed the entire show to be captured by CCTV. A competent player would have done it totally anonymously and invisibly, they would have taken him out in the parking garage with a sniper rifle. I can’t imagine the victim made travel plans well in advance. Only the victim’s own people would have had advance notice of his travel schedule at such short notice. This is good theatre and it all points to an inside job with hired guns from some place like Turkey or Lebanon where they have Arabs that look like Europeans. And if Dubai were smart, they would never have mentioned a word about it. While many governments publicly claim outrage to high heaven, all countries have spooks that do things like this and therefore, while there will be a show for the public, but no government in the world will follow this up. Just watch – no one will ever be brought to “justice”. Justice has already been done and its over.
To those complaining that it was amateurish with the 60′s style disguise, a disguise is only disguise if it works, and obviously it worked. He was able to check into the hotel without arousing suspicion.
If you’ve ever been to Dubai you’d know that you have to relinquish your passport to the hotel you check into, as they become your sponsors while you’re in the country. You can only get your passport back when you check out and you have to provide an airline ticket showing that you will be leaving the country in at most 3 or 4 hours. So at least one person needed a disguise to check into the victims hotel. He would have also needed another fake passport with a photo similar to his disguise. Obviously he had no intension of checking out of that particular hotel when fleeing the country.
The assassination was silent so as not to arouse attention. The door was chain locked from the inside so the staff actually had to crash the door open to get in. The victim is dead but no one knows there was foul play until an autopsy is done. In the mean time all members of the team have completed their flight and changed their identity again to fly else where.
I think it was an excellent job. Shooting in a parking lot is not the way to go (as someone suggested). Even if a silencer was used the body would have been discovered in short order, then the Airport would have been flooded with security. As for not appearing on security cameras; If they had tried to avoid the cameras (which is almost impossible) or purposely shielded or averted their faces from being seen that would have raised alarms with the security monitoring the video. I would imagine they all look very different now.
They’ve connected the two Pals to Dahlan. I think the House of Saud is behind this. A warning to Hamas and Meshal. Peace talks start again next week.
clearly, it benefits all concerned mideast parties if they can hang this on Israel, just for the ‘war criminal dangerous thug’ narrative of the Jews that they’ve been building for years.
But the video confession of the killing of Israeli soldiers and the traveling without bodyguards, really, that’s just a big bait trail and the Mossad is not so stupid as to follow it. Nor are they stupid enough or impotent enough to have to send eleven people to do this job, especially if there were no bodyguards.
In the Muslim community there is Shia/Sunni tension, Persian/Arab tension, Hamas/Fatah tension, and all or any of those parties are quite fond of the Saddam solution, as he often said — “No person, no problem”.
The likelihood of a giant force of fake tourists descending on a highly security-oriented Arab country and expecting to get away with this is pretty much zero. I don’t believe it was Mossad. I think it was some Arab group worrying about a Hamas/Iran alliance growing in power. It’s a warning, threat, call it what you will, and the videotaped ‘confession’ of this guy is just a way of casting suspicion on Israel. But it’s not Eichmann, it’s not 1962, and the Israelis are nothing if not subtle.
#56 Curious: So if I told you I had two heads, would you stop to count them? It was a joke, buddy!
Dave, if you’d surfed on arab or maghrebin blogs, you would know that they support Palestinians, therefore Hamas
Give them a medal. Obama needs to learn from them, how to get rid of terrorist, instead of reading them their rights, and giving them 1000 dollar an hour lawyers. Oh I forget he was one of Obama’s , muslim brothers, they won’t get 1000 dollar per hr. lawyers, or read their rights, if they are caught. They will have their heads cut off and hung on a pole, for the world to see.
Javelin is a paragon or model of perfection or excellence.
A parametar, who is constant, with variable values, who lives in a paranoia state of delusions. Who will parry any questions, like a parasite, living off others hard work. Who has a form of paregoric or diarrhea– of the mouth.
A person of multi personalities like JAVELIN, MOHO, SLEAZITS, and many more names.
An ignoramus who wants to imitate the imbecile, manchild muslim president.
LET THIS PERSON LIVE IN THEIR OWN LITTLE WORLD, WHERE THEY BELONG.
No 87 by keyboard555 was posted on the wrong article. Sorry about this.