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Hamas aide: Assassinated leader smuggled weapons
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — The right-hand man of a Hamas leader assassinated in Dubai has confirmed Israeli claims that his boss supplied weapons to Palestinian militants. Mohammed Nassar spoke to Hamas' Al Aqsa radio in Gaza from Damascus. A transcript was released Tuesday.
Nassar was an aide to Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, who was assassinated Jan. 19. Israel is widely suspected, but has not confirmed or denied involvement. Al-Mabhouh allegedly smuggled weapons from Iran to Gaza. Nassar says al-Mabhouh "never stopped thinking about how to fight the occupation by supplying quality weapons to the Palestinian fighters." The aide also describes how al-Mabhouh celebrated killing two Israeli soldiers in the mid-1980s by standing on one of the corpses.
Israel's Mossad spy agency is widely suspected of carrying out the Jan. 19 slaying of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in a luxury Dubai hotel, but Israel has neither confirmed nor denied involvement. Israel claims al-Mabhouh was a major player in smuggling weapons to Hamas militants who control the Gaza Strip and attacked Israel with bombs, rockets and mortars for years.
Source: Associated PressDubai police say 26 suspects (including six women) used fake British, Irish, French and Australian passports of real people in the assassination. At least 15 of the suspects share names with Israeli citizens, who say they were victims of identity theft and deny having been in Dubai.
Dubai police say they are convinced that Israel assassinated al-Mabhouh, who was also wanted in the 1989 killing of two Israeli soldiers. They contend al-Mahbouh's assassins used a powerful muscle relaxant to incapacitate him before suffocating him with a pillow in his hotel room.
On Monday, Dubai police announced that dual-national Israelis arriving on foreign passports would be barred from entering. Voice and face profiling will be used to detect Israeli citizens.
So now it's not only banning people by their nationality, but by their second nationality too.
Next they'll go for parents who used to be Israeli, and then they'll start going for grandfathers and beyond.
What a backwards ****hole. :2razz:
So you Endorse keeping out ALL the Nationals of a country becasue a Few from that country Probably assassinated someone.how backwards they are to want to take action to keep out murderers
"We will not allow those who hold Israeli passports into the UAE no matter What other passport they have," Tamim said.
He did not explain what procedures would be used to identify the Israeli visitors, except that police would "develop skills" to recognize Israelis by "Physical Features and the way they speak."
Dubai will use profiling to detect arriving Israelis | Philadelphia Inquirer | 03/02/2010
how backwards they are to want to take action to keep out murderers
This is some laughable crap here.police would "develop skills" to recognize Israelis by "Physical Features and the way they speak."
Because Israeli nationality = murder.how backwards they are to want to take action to keep out murderers
And that someone is a terrorist, and there's no proof that Mossad is behind it.So you Endorse keeping out ALL the Nationals of a country becasue a Few from that country Probably assassinated someone.
This is some laughable crap here.
Physical features? How does one go about that when Israel has citizens of every race and color and from every continent?
The way they speak? I have an American southern accent.
Basically, almost anyone could be an Israeli. Good luck with that plan. Especially when it starts impacting the UAE's highly touted tourist industry.
This is some laughable crap here.
Physical features? How does one go about that when Israel has citizens of every race and color and from every continent?
The way they speak? I have an American southern accent.
Basically, almost anyone could be an Israeli. Good luck with that plan. Especially when it starts impacting the UAE's highly touted tourist industry.
I can hear it now...... "Chai, y'all". :mrgreen:
On a more serious side, Houston has a rather large Jewish community, and many have a pronounced Texas drawl.
And earlier commentors are right. They keep out terrorist scumbags like the guy who got whacked, and they don't have a mossad problem anymore.
In this case yes. I have no qualms about terminating someone who for years has been engaged in procuring munitions from Iran which have killed and terrorized innumerable Israeli civilians. He certainly wasn't in Dubai again to play the casinos.So, you're okay with the Mossad entering a sovereign nation using fraudulent (stolen) identities, and killing someone because they feel like it should be done? Just curious.
Yes.So, you're okay with the Mossad entering a sovereign nation using fraudulent (stolen) identities, and killing someone because they feel like it should be done?
Just curious.
This wasn't a pickpocket or something equally benign. This was a killer who was responsible for untold misery, now in Dubai seeking to add to that ledger. He would kill me and mine in a heartbeat.
Whoever did the good dead has my deep appreciation and gratitude.
So, you're okay with the Mossad entering a sovereign nation using fraudulent (stolen) identities, and killing someone because they feel like it should be done?
Just curious.
and so have lots of opther countries.I get that he's a bad guy. The ends don't justify the means.
For the record, I would not support agents of the U.S. doing this, either. And I know we have.
How many innocents would you be prepared to see die because of your moral objections to taking out baddies with hit squards in other countries?
How messy is too messy?
Just trying to flesh this out a bit.
Ooooh!I believe in the rule of law, period. When we stop following the laws that keep us human, we become what we pretend to be fighting against.
Stealing identities, violating sovereignity of nations...that's over the line.
I am shocked -- shocked! -- to learn that intelligence services use fraudulent passports and stolen identities.
Who Would have Imagined it? Nobody, certainly, had Israel's Mossad not been accused recently of subterfuge in order to assassinate in Dubai a leading figure of Hamas, Mahmoud al-Mabhouh.
I am heartened that the governments of Britain, Ireland, France, and Germany have demanded explanations. And I am buoyed to hear loud moral complaints from the usual political quarters that are always wise to Israeli behavior. They are Outraged -- Outraged! -- that such things take place. Intelligence services of European countries would never do the like. Their secret operatives, if they have any, that is, always travel on their own passports and always check into hotels using their Own identities.
Undoubtedly, Hamas also does things solely in public. Well, it is true that this claim may be challenged by the fact that Hamas "martyrs" never went through Ben-Gurion airport on the way to Tel Aviv. Well, yes, that may be due to a lack of Palestinian passports. Just think if they had them! They could have used them on behalf of the sort of "resistance" -- blowing up cafes, shelling towns -- that encourages Israelis to support doves who advocate withdrawal from occupied territories. Besides, doesn't Hamas reveal its 'martyrs' faces after the fact?
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Hamas and Israel are at war. Both say so. Al-Mabhouh was a founder of the military wing of Hamas, was responsible for the deaths of Israelis, wanted deaths of many more of them, and was a key intermediary between Hamas and Iran. Tehran supplies Gaza's fundamentalist rulers with weapons like longer range missiles; its president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, inveighs regularly that the Jewish state should vanish from the earth (like the Holocaust, which never happened anyway, should disappear from memory). Exactly why is a holy warrior like al-Mahbouh not a legitimate target?
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