Posted on 02/26/2010 5:39:13 AM PST by hennie pennie
.....Bruce Riedel, a former CIA officer who is now a senior fellow at the Washington-based Brookings Institution, says Wednesday's revelations did not change his opinion that Israel was behind the assassination.......Mr Riedel says it would have been highly unusual for the hit squad to have visited Dubai using the stolen identities last year just for reconnaissance, as the police claim, and that this may have been an attempt to eliminate the Hamas leader that had failed. He also doubted that all of the suspects had been in the Gulf just for one mission.
"What the Dubai authorities are uncovering now is not just the assassination team, but probably the entire Mossad station," he explains. "Dubai would be a perfect place to carry out not just a one-off operation, but a long-term one against Iran."
A retired officer for Mossad's covert-operations division, who writes under the pseudonym Michael Ross, agrees that there may have been more than one operation in motion in Dubai.
"If this is a Mossad operation, this is an unprecedented number of combatants deployed for an operation of any kind," he told the BBC News website.
"Given the relatively scant operational manpower resources available to Mossad, the general rule of thumb has always been, 'never send two when one is enough and never send three when two is enough'."
Mr Ross says the use of a mix of cloned, manufactured and authentic passports by the assassins "do not follow any document protocols that I recall". The use of credit cards from US bank is also "very odd", he says, given the co-operation between Israel and the US.
"It would be disingenuous to say Israel wasn't involved in some fashion, but I think there are more aspects and international players involved in this case than are visible to the naked eye," he adds......
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Nuff' said.
the movie “munich” worth a view.... i too believe there is a lot more going on than one assassination...more power to “them”... i doubt we will ever know the whole story... gotta wait a few years...
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