Dubai Police move checkmates Mossad

[Patriotic_Pakistani]

Since the killing of Mahmoud Al Mabhouh in his Dubai hotel room on January 19, Dubai Police have released pictures, images of their alleged passports and alleged names of 11 suspects, for whom arrest warrants have also been issued through Interpol.

Dubai/Beirut: The amount of information that has been obtained from the footage of the events preceding the assassination of a top Hamas commander in Dubai last month is expected to leave its planners "surprised", regional news outlets and analysts have said.
Since the killing of Mahmoud Al Mabhouh in his Dubai hotel room on January 19, Dubai Police have released pictures, images of their alleged passports and alleged names of 11 suspects, for whom arrest warrants have also been issued through Interpol.

In the long and shadowy history of assassinations of Palestinian activists and militants, the Dubai operation last month is unique in the amount of information that has been obtained from footage tracking the assassins.
Dubai police chief Lieutenant General Dahi Khalfan Tamim has said that if Israel's spy agency the Mossad is found to be responsible for the operation, its head, Meir Dagan, should face arrest.
He described the killers as "stupid" because their moves were "traced second by second" by security cameras.

Intelligence analysts and a former Israeli intelligence agent have said that the footage would have caught its planners by surprise.
In the footage released by the police, the assassins are often seen looking at the CCTV cameras and changing disguises in the same location, which analysts have described as having been planned in a sloppy manner and in a hurry.
Victor Ostrovsky, Canadian-born former Mossad agent who blew the whistle on the inner workings of the spy agency in his book 'By Way of Deception', told the Los Angeles Times that planners of the assassination did not expect Dubai Police to quickly put together so thorough a narrative of the events that led to Al Mahbouh's killing.
"It's a rush to action which is meant to show off the long arm of Israeli justice," he said. He added that the operation alone will likely cause Israel more harm than the victim could have "in a lifetime".
Analysts said the investigation was a major coup for the emirate.
"The attention given to the maintenance of law and order in Dubai can border on paranoia but it's a positive paranoia," said the Dubai-based director of the Institute for Near East and Gulf Military Analysis, Riad Kahwaji.
Security analyst Ebrahim Khayat said the pace of the investigation had shown that the Dubai police were "one of the best forces in the world."
"The Mossad failed to take account of the capabilities and technical expertise of Dubai Police," he said adding that the agency had "blundered by using fake passports, triggering a crisis with European governments."
"The Mossad probably won't be able to use most of the commandos ever again because their photographs and fingerprints were on the passports."
Dubai Police's efforts in the case were also highlighted by Arab and Israeli media on Friday.
In an analysis piece by the Jerusalem Post entitled "Assassins may regret taking on Dubai's cops", Ksenia Svetlova argued that Dubai Police controlled the story by carefully releasing information about it in parts.
"… the authorities have managed two difficult tasks: controlling information and providing accurate and trustworthy accounts of the events.
"The world heard of Mabhouh's murder only when Dubai's authorities decided to let it be known, and not a minute earlier… Many people – notably including those who sent the killers – are doubtless wondering: how is Dubai doing it?"
An editorial in the London-based Al-Quds al-Arabi applauded the police for its handling of the investigation.
"The Israelis did not expect that the Dubai police would be at that level of security professionalism."
Although most in the Israeli press considered the operation a success in eliminating a wanted man, some were critical of the way in which it was carried out.
Yoel Marcus wrote in Israel's Haaretz criticising prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu over the operation. Israel however has not acknowledged involvement in it.
He wrote: "If the Dubai operation is Israel's work… it is a strange story, not to say a sloppy one: the use of passports of friendly countries, which were 'donated' by people in Israel and abroad, and the choice of Dubai, which is monitored by a dense network of cameras, as the scene of the operation."
- Additional inputs from Agencies

In pictures: Details of the prime suspects
In the long and shadowy history of assassinations of Palestinian activists and militants, the Dubai operation last month is unique in the amount of information that has been obtained from footage tracking the assassins.
Dubai police chief Lieutenant General Dahi Khalfan Tamim has said that if Israel's spy agency the Mossad is found to be responsible for the operation, its head, Meir Dagan, should face arrest.
He described the killers as "stupid" because their moves were "traced second by second" by security cameras.


gulfnews : Dubai's sophisticated security apparatus checkmates Mossad

video on the website (CCTV Footage)

 

[Patriotic_Pakistani]

Dubai police chief Lieutenant General Dahi Khalfan Tamim has said that if Israel's spy agency the Mossad is found to be responsible for the operation, its head, Meir Dagan, should face arrest.

 

[SMC]

I think anyone with an iota of logic and brain will know it's Mossad who is involved. It is the one who does these sorts of assassinations, and moreover forged passport guarantee state involvement. Now obviously there is no empirical proof to suggest Mossad involvement - these operations are designed that way - but it's like asking to prove the sky is blue or grass is green. For other things asking for proof is understandable but here.. you either must not have a brain or must be intenionally ignoring the obvious to deny Israeli involvement. Too right that the planners will be stunned at these guys (the police) and their operations (Mossad's) the way they have been looked at, traced, the pattern found, and made it into a narrative story by the police like it was child play.

He described the killers as "stupid" because their moves were "traced second by second" by security cameras.

Now that's a really good one. Good way to rub it in.

 

[Patriotic_Pakistani]

There is no doubt that Mossad isnt invloved but i was laughing on the statement of Dubai Police chief ..how do they intend to arrest the head of Mossad whilst Israeli officials have rebuffed calls to arrest its top spy agency's agent.

 

[SMC]

He wants him on the criminal list of interpol. He probably won't get him arrested but it highlights the failure of this operation.

 

[Dawkins]

Ahem .. i dont think the assassins who were this sophisticated to track down and efficiently murder an important hamas leader would ignore CCTV from their plans. These were not suicidal maniacs, they were very intelligent cold blooded murderers.

Even if we are to assume that the footage reveals how the assassins look like, whats the guarantee that they will continue to look like they did earlier ? Some minor plastic surgery and its all history. If the killing was indeed handled by Mossad, i'd surely expect proper pre/post event planning.

 

[karan.1970]

I think anyone with an iota of logic and brain will know it's Mossad who is involved. It is the one who does these sorts of assassinations, and moreover forged passport guarantee state involvement. Now obviously there is no empirical proof to suggest Mossad involvement - these operations are designed that way - but it's like asking to prove the sky is blue or grass is green. For other things asking for proof is understandable but here.. you either must not have a brain or must be intenionally ignoring the obvious to deny Israeli involvement. .

hmm... Double Standards Alert! When in a similar situation, the empirical evidence is demanded of LeT and JuD's involvement..

Not diverting the discussion but pointing out the hypocrisy of the arguement

 

[SMC]

Off topic post.. LeT and JuD is not obvious. It's not obvious that they travelled through a sea 900 km for 2 days. Apples and oranges comparison. That's all I will say because it's off-topic.

 

[SMC]

And btw I never denied LeT or JuD are not involved.

 

[Creder]

Ahem .. i dont think the assassins who were this sophisticated to track down and efficiently murder an important hamas leader would ignore CCTV from their plans. These were not suicidal maniacs, they were very intelligent cold blooded murderers.

Even if we are to assume that the footage reveals how the assassins look like, whats the guarantee that they will continue to look like they did earlier ? Some minor plastic surgery and its all history. If the killing was indeed handled by Mossad, i'd surely expect proper pre/post event planning.

Yeah your analysis seems to be wayyyyyyyyyyyy more credible than the Dubai police.. I mean come on compared to your knowledge about Mossad and there secret ops and their ' cold blooded tactics ', the Dubai police has merely concrete evidence against Mossad.. What possible value could that have against a dude who spends most of his time on defence forums

 

[SMC]

Ahem .. i dont think the assassins who were this sophisticated to track down and efficiently murder an important hamas leader would ignore CCTV from their plans. These were not suicidal maniacs, they were very intelligent cold blooded murderers.

Even if we are to assume that the footage reveals how the assassins look like, whats the guarantee that they will continue to look like they did earlier ? Some minor plastic surgery and its all history. If the killing was indeed handled by Mossad, i'd surely expect proper pre/post event planning.

It's very much possible that the cameras were hidden. Like the article mentioned, you can plan it to perfection but ultimately anything can happen once the actual events happen. Moreover, as noticed, the assassins were first at another hotel and then went to another following tip off. So clearly their plan wasn't rigid.

It's not just about showing how they look like, it's seeing the bigger picture. It's clear Mossad is involved here and there is a lot of public outcry in Britain over government hiding something. Let's not forget the diplomatic fall out. The assassination has done Israel more harm than good.

 

[Zovc]

People here watch a lot of Hollywood movies. Also for the smart-***** that don't know, CCTV footage lasts in the serves until a certain time period, the MOSSAD agents were probably counting on the body to be discovered at a later date.

 

[K^se]

ROFL, of course Israeli MOSSAD was behind this.. Eye Witness reports from Tel Aviv the day of Mahmoud Al Mabhouh killing, Benjamin Netanyahu and his Cabinet after hearing the news were smiling when they came out of their meeting. But that's not the point, UK,France,German officials are all calling up diplomats and ambassadors from Israeli Consulates to answer questions that their government citizens rights were infringed upon, that their passports most of the suspects who are living in Israel, falling into other peoples hands. The passports are legitimate just the Identity picture was changed to their new holders. In the end no government is going to take any severe action because in the end Israeli-European relations are far more important than a Hamas leader being killed in Dubai, Just face the facts..

-ROFL at the arrest of Meir Dagan, Chief of the MOSSAD

 

[AZADPAKISTAN2009]

Mousad they thought they are going for Operation in Egypt or Jordan lol with out knowing that dubai is like fort knox in security and survailence

Major f up

 

[Arik]

i doubt the entire operation was carried out by mossad.Mossad as every one knows is the finest and the most ruthless spy agency in the world.The killers were so careless that they allowed themselves to be captured on CCTV cameras.This is not how mossad carries out its operation.