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Dubai’s Candid Camera

February 25, 2010 - 12:03 am - by Claudia Rosett

Dubai authorities have provided a terrific display of their surveillance abilities, with the video footage released last week of 11 alleged assassins now wanted for the Jan. 19 murder in a plush Dubai hotel room of a top Hamas terrorist, Mahmoud al-Mabhouh — who was a big player in smuggling arms from Iran to Gaza.

But why stop with releasing video of al-Mabhouh’s alleged assassins? As an offshore banking center and top trading partner for Iran, Dubai is a crossroads for all sorts of interesting characters — such as the late al-Mabhouh, and “members of his group,” whom Dubai authorities say he met with shortly before he was murdered. If surveillance in Dubai is that good, may we please see more? — starting with footage of al-Mabhouh himself, and those mysterious members of his “group.” Imagine the possibilities for a full-length feature film. More in my column this week for Forbes.com, on Video Killer Thriller in Dubai.

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  1. 1. Lee Kleypas

    Dear Ms Rosett, Read this and the longer version in Forbes. Thank you for your pithy insights once again. Every time I read something from you that exposes more of the fecklessness of our international betters, the world seems a little less upside down. As they say in Texas; much obliged. Lee, Houston

    February 25, 2010 - 11:01 am   Link to this Comment | Reply
  2. 2. Clothcap

    Hi Claudia, yes it would be very interesting. For Mossad certainly.
    OT
    Any thoughts on an update concerning the source of the geen nightmare, Strong as follow up to the comprehensive research you gave us here?

    March 1, 2010 - 4:31 pm   Link to this Comment | Reply

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