About al-Mabhouh...
Although Hamas has predictably blamed Israel for the death of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, a senior Hamas military commander (so really, who cares?) nobody really knows what happened to the terrorist group leader. However, a personal "source" of mine that knows the region and people very well (through it's and Hamas' history only) due to spending some time in the there, theorizes that the assination was carefully planned out and the perpetrators knew exactly where and when al-Mabhouh would be, the moment he left Damascus; even though he had arrived in the UAE with a false passport bearing a false name.
My "source" theorizes that the assassins were "more than likely" Israeli, as they have the best and brightest spy agency on the planet. With all the flubs by the CIA and MI-5 (and even the former KGB) in recent years, that's not too hard to swallow. He contends that the perps used any number of different foreign passports including Canada, Italy, Sweden, etc. Almost from anywhere, really.
For those of you that didn't know, al-Mabhouh was in a hotel room that was literally surrounded by his assassins. They knew what room he would be in and booked the rooms across the hall from him, as well as on either side of him. There didn't appear to be any forced entry into the room, so he may have even known his assailants. That's doubtful, however nobody heard any ruckus from inside the room around the time of his purported death.
As the article states, there is an autopsy being done to determine the actual cause of death, poison being the main culprit as trace amounts were said to have been found in his system.
But the question remains who tipped off whoever it was that killed him to his whereabouts? I mean we're talking about knowledge of his pseudonym, flight number, hotel, the fact he didn't have his usual entourage with him, everything. Money talks and no more than in the Middle East. It's quite possible that someone from within Hamas itself took the money and ran and is living the life of luxory all on the Isreali dime. Either just for the money itself, which is proabaly the leading candidate or simply to remove a competitor from within Hamas' own ranks. Unity? A common enemy and goal? Pfft. There is no honor among theives.
And you think Scotland Yard is good.
My "source" theorizes that the assassins were "more than likely" Israeli, as they have the best and brightest spy agency on the planet. With all the flubs by the CIA and MI-5 (and even the former KGB) in recent years, that's not too hard to swallow. He contends that the perps used any number of different foreign passports including Canada, Italy, Sweden, etc. Almost from anywhere, really.
For those of you that didn't know, al-Mabhouh was in a hotel room that was literally surrounded by his assassins. They knew what room he would be in and booked the rooms across the hall from him, as well as on either side of him. There didn't appear to be any forced entry into the room, so he may have even known his assailants. That's doubtful, however nobody heard any ruckus from inside the room around the time of his purported death.
As the article states, there is an autopsy being done to determine the actual cause of death, poison being the main culprit as trace amounts were said to have been found in his system.
But the question remains who tipped off whoever it was that killed him to his whereabouts? I mean we're talking about knowledge of his pseudonym, flight number, hotel, the fact he didn't have his usual entourage with him, everything. Money talks and no more than in the Middle East. It's quite possible that someone from within Hamas itself took the money and ran and is living the life of luxory all on the Isreali dime. Either just for the money itself, which is proabaly the leading candidate or simply to remove a competitor from within Hamas' own ranks. Unity? A common enemy and goal? Pfft. There is no honor among theives.
And you think Scotland Yard is good.
posted by Northern Exposer at 04:55
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