236 Dubai: Israel used stolen identities of living people - cf 9/11 claims "hijackers still alive"

Dubai: Israel used stolen identities of living people - cf 9/11 claims "hijackers still alive"

I have been away. When I got back, there were a lot of jobs to be done; things are gradually getting back to normal now.

New Zealand broke off diplomatic relations with Israel over Mossad use of its passports - and that was BEFORE anything happened. Will other countries do the same?

(1) Netanyahu met Mossad hit squad shortly before they went to Dubai
(2) Dubai police: Soon we'll have proof against Mossad
(3) Israeli immigration officials copied British passports used by hit squad, ministers told
(4) Dubai: Israel used stolen identities of living people - cf 9/11 claims "hijackers still alive"
(5) Mossad 'factory' churned out fake Australian passports. (NZ broke off relations with Israel over passports)
(6) ASIO investigating dual Australian-Israeli citizens using Australian cover to spy for Israel
(7) With friends like Israel
(8) Mossad's Murderous Reach: The Larger Political Issues, By James Petras
(9) Israel waging a covert assassination campaign across the Middle East
(10) Satan's Army - Roy Tov
(11) Israeli opposition leader Tzipi Livni hails Dubai Hamas killing

(1) Netanyahu met Mossad hit squad shortly before they went to Dubai
From: Erooth Mohamed <ekunhan@gmail.com> Date: 22.02.2010 12:43 PM

Meir Dagan: the mastermind behind Mossad's secret war

From The Sunday Times

Uzi Mahnaimi

February 21, 2010

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article7034933.ece

IN early January two black Audi A6 limousines drove up to the main gate of a building on a small hill in the northern suburbs of Tel Aviv: the headquarters of Mossad, the Israeli secret intelligence agency, known as the "midrasha".

Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, stepped out of his car and was greeted by Meir Dagan, the 64-year-old head of the agency. Dagan, who has walked with a stick since he was injured in action as a young man, led Netanyahu and a general to a briefing room.

According to sources with knowledge of Mossad, inside the briefing room were some members of a hit squad. As the man who gives final authorisation for such operations, Netanyahu was briefed on plans to kill Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, a member of Hamas, the militant Islamic group that controls Gaza.

Mossad had received intelligence that Mabhouh was planning a trip to Dubai and they were preparing an operation to assassinate him there, off-guard in a luxury hotel. The team had already rehearsed, using a hotel in Tel Aviv as a training ground without alerting its owners.

The mission was not regarded as unduly complicated or risky, and Netanyahu gave his authorisation, in effect signing Mabhouh's death warrant.

Typically on such occasions, the prime minister intones: "The people of Israel trust you. Good luck."

Days later on January 19, Emirates flight EK912 took off from the Syrian capital Damascus at 10.05am. On board, as Mossad had anticipated, was Mabhouh, who was also known by the nom de guerre of Abu al-Abd. The Israelis suspected he planned to travel from Dubai to the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas to arrange for an arms shipment to Gaza.

As the Airbus A330 rose into the wintry sky and headed south, Mabhouh, an athletic 49-year-old, could see the minarets of the ancient city — his home since he had been deported from Gaza by Israel more than 20 years before.

He had made the trip to Dubai several times before on Hamas business and had little reason to think that in less than 12 hours he would be dead.

From a highway below a Mossad agent watched the departure of EK912. Knowing from an informant at the airport that Mabhouh, who was travelling under an assumed name, had boarded the flight, the agent sent a message — believed to be to a pre-paid Austrian mobile phone — to the team in Dubai. Their target was on his way.

A few hours later, as the world now knows, Mabhouh was murdered in his hotel room — and the Israeli spy agency nearly got clean away. For days the death appeared to be from natural causes.

When suspicions did arise, it was only because of Dubai's extensive system of CCTV cameras that the work of the assassination team was revealed.

The cameras recorded the hit-team's movements, from the moment its members landed in Dubai to the moment they left. Last week their photographs were released by the Dubai police and splashed across the world's newspapers and television screens.

Mossad is now deeply embarrassed. Its use of the identities of British, French, German and Irish nationals as cover for agents to carry out the hit has angered western governments. In the ensuing diplomatic fall-out, sources close to Mossad said yesterday that it had suspended similar operations in the Middle East, mainly because of fear that heightened security would put its agents at greater risk. Dagan's job is also on the line.

Howver. few believe that Mossad will give up the secret war it has long waged against Israel's enemies. ...

(2) Dubai police: Soon we'll have proof against Mossad

From: Erooth Mohamed <ekunhan@gmail.com> Date: 21.02.2010 04:49 AM

BY HAVIV RETTIG GUR AND AP
21/02/2010

http://www.jpost.com/International/Article.aspx?id=169215

Dubai police officials claimed on Saturday they expected to soon announce they have firm evidence that the Mossad was involved in the killing last month of Hamas military commander Mahmoud al-Mabhouh.

Records of credit card payments and cellphone calls made by members of the 11-person hit squad that entered Dubai on European passports would provide the details needed to tie the assassination of Mabhouh to the Mossad, the police said.

Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon denied on Saturday that Israel was behind the killing in Dubai or that it would damage Israeli-European relations.

"There is nothing linking Israel to the assassination of Mabhouh," Ayalon said at an event in Rehovot. "Britain, Germany and France are partners to the ongoing struggle against global terrorism, so I'm certain there won't be a crisis."

Instead, said Ayalon, "relations will only grow stronger" due to this cooperation.

In an interview published on Saturday, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner told Le Journal du Dimanche that Mabhouh's assassination was further proof of the need for peace in the Middle East.

"[The affair] shows the need for peace and a Palestinian state, immediately," Kouchner told the French paper.

A Hamas legislator said on Saturday that the Izzadin Kassam cofounder, who was found dead in a Dubai hotel room on January 20, put himself at risk by booking his trip through the Internet.

Salah Bardawil also told a news conference that the slain man took additional risk by informing his Gaza family by telephone at which hotel he would be staying.

Hamas also claimed on Friday that two ex-officers from Fatah were involved in Mabhouh's assassination, and Fatah shot back by insinuating that Hamas members were the ones who had collaborated with the killers. ...

PA officials in Ramallah said the two men were former members of Fatah who later joined Hamas security forces in Gaza. They said the men were sent to Dubai on Hamas business last month but had no further details.

(3) Israeli immigration officials copied British passports used by hit squad, ministers told

By Melissa Kite, Deputy Political Editor

Published: 9:00PM GMT 20 Feb 2010

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/dubai/7280176/Israeli-immigration-officials-copied-British-passports-used-by-hit-squad-ministers-told.html

The six British citizens whose identities were stolen and used by the killers all had their passports taken away from them briefly during routine checks at the airport, it has been claimed.

The revelation by diplomatic sources that the Foreign Office has been told that the passports were copied by Israeli officials is the first time Israel's involvement has been directly alleged.

It will put further pressure on the Israeli government which has been at the centre of a growing diplomatic storm over its possible involvement in the murder of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in Dubai last month.

Diplomatic sources say ministers have been briefed that the passport fraud was committed by immigration officials who stopped the British nationals, who all now live in Israel, as they went through the airport during recent trips.

The passport numbers were taken, most likely by photocopy, and then used to create new documents which were used by the hit squad.

The identities of French, German and Irish citizens were also used.

The suspects used fake passports bearing their own pictures, but the names and numbers of the innocent Europeans.

All six British passports were not biometric, which means they did not have a computer chip embedded in them and so the fraud would have been relatively straightforward, experts believe. ... ==

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=119086&sectionid=351020203

20 Feb 2010 After the assassination of a senior Hamas official in Dubai, Hezbollah issues an alert against disguised entry of terrorists into Lebanon. The Lebanese resistance movement's Deputy Secretary General Sheikh Naim Qassem urged vigilance against the terrorists who would attempt to clear the Lebanese customs using forged European passports.

(4) Dubai: Israel used stolen identities of living people - cf 9/11 claims "hijackers still alive"

From: Sadanand, Nanjundiah (Physics Earth Sciences) <sadanand@mail.ccsu.edu> Date: 27.02.2010 02:01 PM

The Mossad hit and Israel's path of self-destruction

Hasan Abu Nimah, The Electronic Intifada, 25 February 2010

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article11100.shtml

The assassination of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, a Hamas official in Dubai, almost certainly by a death squad dispatched by Israel's Mossad, is by no means the first such aggression against the sovereignty of another state. While Israel has literally gotten away with murder thousands of times, was this one killing too far?

Israel has a long, bloody history of murder, sabotage and outright terrorism all over Europe, in Beirut, Tunis, Amman, Damascus and now Dubai. And that is just what we know about. All of this is allegedly in "self-defense" against "terrorism" even though the Zionist movement in Palestine invented the sort of modern terrorism for which the Middle East became known. It started with countless Zionist bomb attacks on Palestinian civilians from the 1930s, often in markets and cafes, the bombing of the King David and Semiramis hotels in Jerusalem in the 1940s claiming dozens of innocent lives, and the murder of UN mediator Count Folke Bernadotte. These crimes, on top of the long history of massacres of Palestinians, Lebanese and other Arabs over the past six decades, were all worn as badges of honor by Zionist leaders including Menachem Begin and Yitzhak Shamir who later became prime ministers.

Current Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who according to reports personally approved the killing of al-Mabhouh, must have thought it would be a great achievement celebrated by the "civilized" world that is engaged still in a "war on terror." The so-called "international community," after all, has helped Israel isolate Hamas and labels it a "terrorist" organization despite Hamas' diplomatic overtures, repeated offers of truces and ceasefires, and the mandate it won at the ballot box.

Unfortunately it is not working out that way this time. Counting on the usual international complicity was not that unrealistic on Israel's part. Indeed there has been no clear condemnation of the act of extrajudicial execution of al-Mabhouh, in a hotel room, apparently by electrocution and smothering with a pillow according to The Daily Mail (UK). What has been greeted with indignation is the forging of passports and identity theft.

Meeting in Brussels, EU foreign ministers strongly condemned the abuse of passports, but did not have the courage to publicly name Israel even though several governments including the UK and Ireland had already summoned their Israeli ambassadors. The British and Irish foreign ministers even directly confronted their Israeli counterpart Avigdor Lieberman, who was also in Brussels.

Mossad, the Israeli intelligence and international murder agency, has a long history of using fake and stolen passports of countries including Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Ireland and Germany. It notoriously used fake Canadian passports during the attempted murder of Hamas leader Khaled Meshal in Amman in 1997. Countries view their passports much like their currencies -- their credibility and value must be defended. The lives of their citizens may well depend on it; an Irish, British or German citizen has to be able to travel all over the world without fear that he or she will be suspected of being a Mossad assassin.

Several years ago, New Zealand, a country of three million people, broke off diplomatic relations with Israel over the use of its passports by Mossad. But apart from that example, most countries have been too timid to confront Israel. That Lieberman refused to provide any additional information or even acknowledge an Israeli role in the Dubai attack when he met with the European foreign ministers is a sign that Israel still feels safe displaying arrogance and lawlessness, because it knows the "international community" has never dared to hold it accountable.

This time, however, Israeli arrogance may have exceeded the limits of what has been tolerated so far, and turned what was supposed to be an "heroic" act into a scandal with far-reaching consequences. There are some specific and general factors that contribute to that. First, the crime was committed on the territory of a moderate Arab country whose support for peace with Israel has been practically translated into unofficial bilateral relations. A high-level Israeli delegation had been in the country only days before the Mossad hit squad arrived. Showing so much contempt for a leading moderate Arab state gives a very bad example for any other state that might consider softening its position toward Israel (as the United States had been demanding as "confidence-building measures" for the "peace process").

A second factor is that Israel mostly used stolen identities of living people, whose very public shock and fear at waking up to find their names splashed over the newspapers and linked to a murder, could not easily be hidden.

A third factor is that the Israeli adventure in Dubai carries the traits of just the kind of terrorist act the world has been mobilizing to fight. Improvements in passport security were introduced in recent years to stop terrorism, but here is a country violating and sabotaging these security measures in order to commit murder.

We cannot assume that the assassination in Dubai will be the straw that breaks the back of Israeli immunity and impunity, but we can be sure that the general erosion of Israel's standing as a result, particularly of its aggressive recent wars on Lebanon and Gaza, means that what was tolerated by the world more easily five or ten years ago, is less tolerated now. Global public disgust at Israeli actions has reached levels that may require governments who normally prefer complicity and silence to act.

And when there was a "peace process," Israel's crimes particularly against Palestinians were ignored in the interests of not damaging relations or slowing momentum toward the hoped-for successful conclusion. But no one today -- except the most naive or delusional -- believes that there is any peace process. Despite Israel's efforts to blame the Palestinians, only the most pro-Israel extremists deny that Israel's aggressive colonization in Jerusalem and the West Bank, as well as the siege on Gaza, is what killed any prospect of a negotiated solution for the foreseeable future.

Consider that just days before the passport affair broke out, Israel was once again pressuring the UK to change its laws to protect Israeli officials from arrest for war crimes should they visit London. Although British officials had publicly expressed shameful enthusiasm to tailor UK law to meet Israeli needs, they may now face real public opposition if they attempt to change it. What interest does the UK have to protect the likes of Tzipi Livni from arrest if the facts and evidence make it necessary?

The truth is that as it becomes desperate, Israel is turning ever more wild and dangerous, not only for its neighbors but for world peace, security and prosperity. Without constant pressure from the Israel lobby, there may have been no invasion of Iraq. Today, it is Israel and its apologists who are constantly inciting confrontation and war against Iran when most of this region wants peace and good relations.

Even if the countries harmed by Israel's latest brazen act do not hold it properly and adequately accountable -- as they must and should -- it appears that it is on a path of self-destruction. The great fear is how much more harm it will do to others on the way.

Hasan Abu Nimah is the former permanent representative of Jordan at the United Nations. This essay first appeared in The Jordan Times and is republished with the author's permission. ==

(5) Mossad 'factory' churned out fake Australian passports. (NZ broke off relations with Israel over passports)

From: Sadanand, Nanjundiah (Physics Earth Sciences) <sadanand@mail.ccsu.edu> Date: 27.02.2010 02:01 PM

Israel Mossad 'factory' churned out fake Australian passports

Friday, 26 February 2010 by Sameh A. Habeeb

http://www.paltelegraph.com/world/world-news/4404-israel-mossad-factory- churned-out-fake-australian-passports

 Palestine, Feb. 26, 2010 (Pal Telegraph)- A former Mossad officer has alleged the Israeli spy agency has its own "passport factory" to create or doctor passports for use in intelligence operations.

Relations between Australia and Israel are under strain after three Australian passports were apparently used by suspects in the killing of top Hamas leader Mahmoud Al Mabhouh in Dubai last month.

Dubai police say they are 99 per cent sure Mossad was behind the operation to smother Mabhouh with a pillow in his hotel room.

Victor Ostrovsky, a case officer at Mossad for several years in the 1980s, says he has no doubt Australian passports have been forged or fraudulently used for similar operations in the past.

"They need passports because you can't go around with an Israeli passport, not even a forged one, and get away or get involved with people from the Arab world," he said.

"They'll shy away right away. So most of these [Mossad] operations are carried out on what's called false flag, which means you pretend to be of another country which is less belligerent to those countries that you're trying to recruit from.

"If they can obtain blank passports, which they have in the past from Canada, from England, they do. If not, they just manufacture them." He says a company within Mossad headquarters is dedicated to forging passports.

"They create various types of papers, every kind of ink. It's a very, very expensive research department," he said.

He says the manufactured passports are almost identical to the originals.

"If they create a passport at a top level for use of that nature ... I don't think anybody will be able to find the difference," he said.

Mr Ostrovsky says fraudulent Australian passports have been used regularly.

"Consider the fact that Australians speak English and it's an easy cover to take, very few people know very much about Australia," he said.

"You can tell whatever stories you want. It doesn't take much of an accent to be an Australian or New Zealander, or an Englishman for that matter. And I know people had been under Australian cover not once [but] quite a few times. So why not use it?"

He says Mossad chooses which passports to forge based on the cover agents need and the operation they are involved in.

"At the time there were people that were asked ... 'If when you're here in Israel we may need for security purposes to use your passport, would you allow us to do that?'" he said.

"And people would say 'yes'. There were shelves upon shelves of real passports just waiting to be used."

Mr Ostrovsky says there is no chance any of the 26 suspects could really be Mossad agents. "No, absolutely not," he said. "Except for James Bond, who actually pronounces or announces his arrival at the scene by saying, 'I'm Bond, James Bond'. "Most people who work in the intelligence field don't present themselves by their real name." Israel has long rejected Mr Ostrovsky's claims and tried to stop his book from being published. This morning Israeli foreign ministry spokesman Yigal Palmour told ABC NewsRadio there was no proof of any link between Israel and Mabhouh's death. "No evidence was presented by the Dubai police that links Israel to the incident in Dubai," he said. "Since there is no evidence of that nature and since the Dubai police have so far not presented any ultimate evidence, we don't think that we should respond to anything." ==

(6) ASIO investigating dual Australian-Israeli citizens using Australian cover to spy for Israel
ASIO targets new spy suspects

JASON KOUTSOUKIS ..Sydney Morning Herald

February 27, 2010 EXCLUSIVE,

http://www.smh.com.au/world/asio-targets-new-spy-suspects-20100226-p929. html

ASIO (Australia's domestic spy agency) is investigating at least three dual Australian-Israeli citizens who they suspect of using Australian cover to spy for Israel.

The investigation began at least six months before last month's assassination of the Hamas operative Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, widely believed to have been carried out by the Israeli security agency Mossad.

Authorities in Dubai have revealed that three people suspected of taking part in the assassination were travelling on Australian passports, using the names of three dual Australian-Israeli citizens.

The three Australian names linked to the assassination are in no way connected to the three people being investigated by ASIO.

According to two Australian intelligence sources who have been in contact with the Herald, the three men under surveillance all emigrated to Israel within the last decade. Australian citizens are generally allowed to change their name once every 12 months, as long as it is not for criminal reasons.

The new passports have been used to gain entry to a number of countries that are hostile to Israel including Iran, Syria and Lebanon. All three do not recognise Israel and forbid Israelis from entering. Israel also forbids its citizens from travelling to those countries for security reasons.

The Herald understands that the three Australians share an involvement with a European communications company that has a subsidiary in the Middle East. A person travelling under one of these names sought Australian consular assistance in Tehran in 2004.

The Herald has contacted two of the men, both of whom emphatically denied they were involved in any kind of espionage activity.

Both men confirmed they had changed their surnames, but said that the proposition they had done so in order to obtain new documents to travel throughout the Middle East were, in the words of one, "totally absurd''.

"This is a complete fantasy," said the man when contacted in Israel. "I have changed my name for personal reasons.''

The other man, who was not in Israel when contacted, expressed shock at the suggestion he was under any kind of surveillance and said that he had also changed his name for personal reasons.

"I have never been to any of those countries that you say I have been to,'' he said. ''I am not involved in any kind of spying. That is ridiculous." The same man is also believed to hold British citizenship, and is believed to have come to the attention of British intelligence after he had changed his name.

In January the Herald visited the offices of the European company that connects the three men. The company's office manager confirmed to the Herald that one of the men being monitored by ASIO - the same man believed to hold a British passport - was employed by the company but was "unavailable".

The company's chief executive later emphatically denied that this man was ever employed by his company, and totally rejected that his company was being used to gather intelligence on behalf of Israel. Meanwhile, the government confronted Israel for a second time yesterday over the Dubai plot, with the acting ambassador in Tel Aviv, Nicoli Maning-Campbell, conveying the government's concerns to officials in Israel. ==

(7) With friends like Israel

February 27, 2010, Sydney Morning Herald

Mossad has made it much harder for Australians to travel in the Middle East, writes Paul Daley.

http://www.smh.com.au/world/with-friends-like-israel-x2026-20100226-p92c .html

If you travel to Arab countries on a passport as seemingly innocuous as one bearing the Australian coat of arms, some security authorities will still suspect you of working for Israel.

Such is the justified paranoia of some Arab countries about the ruthless efficiency of the Israeli spy agency, Mossad, with its skill at fabricating agents' identities and the inventiveness it lends to killing enemies of the Jewish state. As an Arab guide told me while I was in his country: "Here the authorities assume that every stranger is an Israeli spy."

Now that Mossad has been accused of stealing the passport identities of three Australian citizens for use in a political assassination, I'll be prepared for a tougher grilling than usual next time I visit Syria, Lebanon and certainly Hamas-controlled Gaza.

I'll also be a little more wary next time an Israeli military official at a West Bank checkpoint, at the Erez Crossing into Gaza or at the Allenby Bridge from Jordan, wanders into a back office with my passport in hand before returning it half an hour later.

So, now that fake Australian passports have been used in the assassination in Dubai of the Hamas militant, Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, probably, it seems, by Mossad agents, there is likely to be much greater scrutiny of Australians travelling in the Middle East. Others in the group of suspected killers travelled on fraudulent British, Irish, French and German passports. It is instructive, perhaps, that they saw fit not to steal the identity of anyone from America and risk enraging Israel's greatest ally.

The Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, and the Foreign Minister, Stephen Smith - both great "friends" of the Jewish state - are right to be seething with anger at what appears to be Mossad's blithe implication of Australia in the Hamas militant's assassination. They have demanded answers which Israel will never give them. But critically, they have, quite appropriately, put Australia's very close relationship with Israel on the line.

The Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, was clearly angered by the affair. ''Any state that chooses to do this in relation to Australian passports, frankly, is treating the Australian people, the Australian government, and the Australian nation with contempt,'' he said on radio after hearing news that Dubai police had enlarged the number of suspects to include Australians. ''We will not let the matter lie.''

The night before, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Stephen Smith, had outlined to the National Security Committee of cabinet what Australia's security agencies thought of the evidence sent from Dubai. The material was compelling, he told colleagues. The next morning, Israel's ambassador to Australia, Yuval Rotem, was summoned. In an exchange lasting only a few minutes, Mr Smith said Australia expected Israel's full co-operation in an investigation into the fraud.

''I made it crystal clear to the ambassador that if the results of that investigation cause us to come to the conclusion that the abuse of Australian passports was in any way sponsored or condoned by Israeli officials, then Australia would not regard that as the act of a friend,'' he told reporters later.

This marks an extraordinary low point in relations between the two allies. Last year, Australia put its neck out for Israel, backing the controversial bombing of the Gaza Strip to smash Hamas rocket positions. Australia had been one of only 18 nations to vote against a United Nations investigation into war crimes committed during the conflict.

To cement ties, Australian and Israeli politicians have taken part in a new, private initiative, the Australia-Israel Leadership Exchange, to bring the nations closer together. But it's clear this episode will leave a bitter taste in talks between Canberra and Tel Aviv in the short-term.

''I don't doubt the level of annoyance,'' says Anthony Bubalo, a former Australian diplomat and Middle East specialist with the Lowy Institute in Sydney. ''Governments spend a lot of money - including our government particularly of late - in ensuring the integrity of their passport systems. So it's annoying when another government, especially a friendly one, may be involved in undermining that system.''

Israel has made a habit of stealing other nations' passports for its intelligence agents. New Zealand got into an ugly public spat with Israel over efforts by two Mossad agents in 2004 to take the identity of a wheelchair-bound man with cerebral palsy. Another case in Canada also dragged Israel's illicit attempts at identity theft into the spotlight.

But it took a former Palestinian representative to Australia, Ali Kazak, to succinctly spell out the consequences of Mossad's actions - if, indeed, Mossad is responsible.

"What Mossad is doing is endangering every single Australian," said Kazak, who has previously warned Canberra that the Israeli spy agency was using forged Australian passports.

He is right. Australians travelling in parts of the Middle East would do well to be very wary.

(8) Mossad's Murderous Reach: The Larger Political Issues, By James Petras

From: Ken Freeland <diogenesquest@gmail.com> Date: 22.02.2010 10:08 PM

Mossad's Murderous Reach: The Larger Political Issues

by James Petras / February 22nd, 2010

http://dissidentvoice.org/2010/02/mossad%E2%80%99s-murderous-reach-the-larger-political-issues/

On January 19 Israel's international secret police, the Mossad, sent an eighteen member death squad to Dubai using European passports, supposedly 'stolen' from Israeli dual citizens and altered with fake photos and signatures, in order to assassinate the Palestinian leader, Mahmoud al Mabhouh.

The evidence is overwhelming: The Dubai police presentation of detailed security videos of the assassins was corroborated by the testimony of Israeli security experts and applauded by Israel's leading newspapers and columnists. The Mossad openly stated that Mabhouh was a high priority target who had survived three previous assassination attempts. Israel did not even bother to deny the murder. Furthermore, the sophisticated communication system used by the killers, the logistics and planning surrounding their entry and exit from Dubai and the scope and scale of the operation have all the characteristics of a high-level state operation. Furthermore, only Mossad would have access to the European passports of its dual citizens! Only Mossad would have the capacity, motivation, stated intent and willingness to provoke a diplomatic row with its European allies, knowing full well that Western European governments' anger would blow over because of their deep links to Israel. After meticulous investigation and the interrogation of 2 captured Palestinian Mossad collaborators, the Dubai police chief has stated he is sure the Mossad was behind the killing.

The Larger Political Issues

Israel's policy of overseas assassination raises profound issues that threaten the basis of the modern state: sovereignty, rule of law and national and personal security.

Israel has a publicly-stated policy of violating the sovereignty of any and all countries in order to kill or abduct its opponents. In both proclamation and actual practice, Israeli law, decrees and actions abroad supersede the laws and law enforcement agencies of any other nation. If Israel's policy becomes the common practice world-wide, we would enter a savage Hobbesian jungle in which individuals would be subject to the murderous intent of foreign assassination squads unrestrained by any law or accountable national authority. Each and every state could impose its own laws and cross national borders in order to murder other nation's citizens or residents with impunity. Israel's extra-territorial assassinations make a mockery of the very notion of national sovereignty. Extra-territorial secret police elimination of opponents was a common practice of the Nazi Gestapo, Stalin's GPU and Pinochet's DINA and has now become the sanctioned practice of the US "Special Forces" and the CIA clandestine division. Such policies are the hallmark of totalitarian, dictatorial and imperialist states, which systematically trample on the sovereign rights of peoples.

Israel's practice of extra-judicial, extra-territorial assassinations, exemplified by the recent murder of Mahmoud al Mabhouh in a Dubai hotel room, violates all the fundamental precepts of the rule of law. Extra-judicial killings ordered by a state, mean its own secret police are judge, jury, prosecutor and executioner, unrestrained by sovereignty, law and the duty of nations to protect their citizens and visitors. Evidence, legal procedures, defense and cross examinations are obliterated in the process. State-sponsored, extra-judicial murder completely undermines due process. Liquidation of opponents abroad is the logical next step after Israel's domestic show trials, based on the application of its racial laws and administrative detention decrees, which have dispossessed the Palestinian people and violated international laws.

Mossad death squads operate directly under the Israeli Prime Minister (who personally approved the recent murder). The vast majority of Israelis proudly support these assassinations, especially when the killers escape detection and capture. The unfettered operation of foreign state-sponsored death squads, carrying out extra-judicial assassinations with impunity, is a serious threat to every critic, writer, political leader and civic activist who dares to criticize Israel.

Mossad Murders - Zionist Fire

The precedent of Israel killing its adversaries abroad, establishes the outer boundaries of repression by its overseas supporters in the leading Zionist organizations, most of whom have now and in the past supported Israel's violation of national sovereignty via extra-judicial killings. If Israel physically eliminates its opponents and critics, the 51 major American Jewish organizations economically repress Israel's critics in the US. They actively pressure employers, university presidents and public officials to fire employees, academics and professionals who dare to speak or write against Israeli torture, killing and systematic dispossession of Palestinians.

So far, most critical comments, in Israel and elsewhere, of Mossad's recent murder in Dubai focus on the agents' "incompetence", including allowing their faces to be captured on numerous security videos as they clumsily changed their wigs and costumes under the camera gaze . Other critics complain that the bungling Mossad is "tarnishing Israel's image" as a democratic state and providing ammunition for the anti-Semites. None of these superficial criticisms have been repeated by the US Congress, White House or the Presidents of the Major Jewish American organizations, where the mafia rule of Omerga, or silence, reigns supreme and criminal complicity is the rule

Conclusion

While the critics bemoan the clumsy Mossad job, making it harder for Western powers to provide Israel with diplomatic cover for its operations abroad, the fundamental issue is never addressed: The Mossad's acquisition and alteration of official British, French, German and Irish passports of dual Israeli citizen's underscores the cynical and sinister nature of Israel's exploitation of its dual citizens in the pursuit of its own bloody foreign policy goals. Mossad's use of genuine passports issued by four sovereign European nations to its citizens in order to murder a Palestinian in a Dubai hotel room raises the question of to whom 'dual' Israeli citizens really owe their allegiance and just how far they are willing to go in defending or promoting Israel's overseas assassinations.

Thanks to Israel's use of British passports to enter Dubai and murder an adversary, every British businessperson or tourist traveling in the Middle East will be suspected of links to Israeli death squads. With elections this year and the Labor and Conservative parties counting heavenly on Zionist millionaires for campaign funding, it remains to be seen whether Prime Minister Gordon Brown will do more than whimper and cringe!

(9) Israel waging a covert assassination campaign across the Middle East

From: IHR News <news@ihr.org> Date: 22.02.2010 04:00 PM

The Times (Britain)

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article7025821.ece

Israel is accused of waging covert war across the Middle East

Sheera Frenkel in Jerusalem

Israel is waging a covert assassination campaign across the Middle East in an effort to stop its key enemies co-ordinating their activities.

Israeli agents have been targeting meetings between members of Hamas and the leadership of the militant Hezbollah group, and the Iranian Revolutionary Guards.

They are also suspected of recent killings in Dubai, Damascus and Beirut. While Israel's Mossad spy agency has been suspected of staging assassinations across the world since the 1970s, it does not officially acknowledge or admit its activities.

The current spate of killings began in December when a "tourist bus" carrying Iranian officials and Hamas members exploded outside Damascus. The official report by Syria claimed that a tyre had exploded but photographs surfaced showing the charred remains of the vehicle — prompting speculation that a much larger explosion had taken place.

Several weeks later a meeting between members of Hamas, which controls Gaza, and their counterparts from Hezbollah in its southern Beirut stronghold in Lebanon was also attacked, resulting in several deaths.

Hamas had sought to cover up the incidents because it was embarrassed, a senior Palestinian official in Ramallah told The Times.

"There has been growing co-operation between Gaza and Iran. Israel can read the writing on the wall and they know that with the help of Iran, the Hamas Government in Gaza will become stronger and will fight better.

"But Israel is overstepping their boundaries. Other countries don't want to become a killing field for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict."

Most recently, the top Hamas leader Mahmoud al-Mabhouh was killed in Dubai on January 19, 2010. He is believed to have been poisoned by a woman who visited his room at the Al Bustan Rotana Hotel in Dubai.

Israeli officials said that Mabhouh had been a key figure in procuring Iranian-made longer-range rockets for Hamas that could be fired at targets in central Israel.

The exiled Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal has vowed revenge for Mabhouh's death. He has also suggested that the current fighting between Hamas and Israel will become more regional. In an interview with the London-based al-Hayat newspaper, Mr Mashaal said that future wars with Israel would not be fought solely in the Gaza Strip.

Under the current Mossad chief, Meir Dagan, Israel is believed to have renewed efforts to kill high-level opponents. Only months after the former paratrooper assumed leadership of the intelligence service in October 2002, senior Hezbollah operatives in Lebanon began to be targeted. He was credited with ordering the killing of two relatively senior Hezbollah members who were killed in southern Beirut in July 2003 and August 2004.

More recently, Israel has been accused of planting a car bomb in Damascus that killed the top Hezbollah leader Imad Mughniyah in February 2008. The Israeli Cabinet minister Daniel Herschkowitz last week praised the Mossad chief as one of the agency's most successful leaders.

When asked about Mossad's involvement in the Dubai slaying, Eli Yishai, the Interior Minister, smiled and said: "All the security services make, thank God, great efforts to safeguard the security of the state of Israel."

While some countries are questioning whether Israel isn't taking credit to increase the reputation of its defence establishment, other moderate Arab States are now describing the assassinations as a "covert war" between Israel and Hamas.

Diplomats said they were aware that covert Israeli operations had increased. "We watch their comings and goings; we are aware that there is more activity both on our ground and other countries in the region," said an Egyptian diplomat. "They are trying to embroil us all in their conflict."

Tensions between Israel and Hamas have remained high, despite the relative quiet that has ensued since the end of Israel's offensive in Gaza last winter. Israeli troops were placed on alert yesterday after intelligence suggested that Hamas planned to abduct soldiers. Israel said this week that it had foiled a kidnapping in December by arresting the Hamas operative Slaman Abu Atik on the Israeli-Gaza border. He planned to enter Israel via Egypt, said the Shin Bet, Israel's internal security service.

(10) Satan's Army - Roy Tov
From: Roy Tov <roytov@live.com>  Date: 25.02.2010 11:52 PM

Satan's Army

Roy Tov

http://roytov.com/refugee/passport.htm

I had no intention to keep nagging my readers with the meaning of Hebrew words, but the topic of this article is the Mossad and some insight may be achieved by looking at its motto(s). Mossad's former motto was taken from Proverbs 24:6 "For by wise counsel thou shalt make thy war: and in multitude of counsellors there is safety." The new one is from Proverbs 11:14 "Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the multitude of counsellors there is safety."

In the English translation of the Hebrew text it is difficult to realize that only one word is repeated in both verses: "tahbulot" (the "h" is pronounced like the "ch" in "loch"). This means the people of that organization consider it the heart and soul of the motto and – consequently – of their organization. How is that soul?

Heart of Darkness

As I recently commented most Hebrew words are constructed upon a root of three consonants. In the case of "tahbulot" the root is H.B.L. which roughly means "disrupt." The emphasis is on a bad disruption; not "Please sir, stop for ten minutes and have a coffee with me," but the dropping of hot coffee on someone in order to force a break. "Tahbulot" may be translated as "disrupting tricks." "With disrupting tricks you shall make war" is a good translation of the first motto, while the new one begins with "without disrupting tricks the people shall fall…"

Moreover, words derived from the same root are used for the Hebrew word for "terrorist," namely "mehabel" (note the appearance of the same root H.B.L in the word). In other words, the Mossad defines itself as a terrorist organization specializing in disrupting tricks. This is extraordinary. Many years before Justice Goldstone and the Human Rights Commission of the UN defined Israel as a terrorist organization, Israel did it by itself. Simply, most people don't read Hebrew.

Passports

On January 20, one of the founders of Hamas's military wing, the Izz al-Din Qassam Brigades, Mr Mahmoud al-Mabhouh was assassinated in a hotel room in Dubai. The event is attributed to the Mossad to the extent that Lt Gen Dahi Khalfan - Dubai's police chief - said Interpol should issue a red notice to approve the arrest of Meir Dagan, the head of Mossad. Israel claims the Dubai police chief had provided no incriminating proof, but didn't deny the accusation.

Several fake passports from European countries and Australia are believed to have been used by the several suspects in the killings and the affair is far from approaching a peaceful end. The Hebrew media chose a strange approach to the issue. The Mossad is not openly attributed the assassination, but its responsibility is not denied. Moreover, ten of the suspects have been identified as living in Israel. Some of these people were interviewed by Haaretz – the most serious Israeli newspaper. All of them claim their passports were falsified. The most bizarre reaction was one of the victims claiming that "he can only laugh about the issue."

This is a disturbing reaction to an even more disturbing event. Apparently the Mossad stole identities of Israeli citizens with double citizenship to perpetrate an assassination. The assassins were too cowards to use their own names. In this, the State of Israel has transformed its own citizens into hostages, sticking state crimes on them.

State Hostages

I can identify myself with these people. "There is no such a thing as an Israeli refugee," many would say immediately after hearing the term for the first time. This prejudice has such deep roots that certain countries – like the UK – do not accept applications for political asylum from Israeli citizens. As if they haven't read the Goldstone report, they claim Israel is a democracy and thus people cannot be politically persecuted there. Now, the UK saw how the State of Israel used British passports to incriminate Israeli citizens who were not the assassins. The Israeli assassins –Mossad agents – cowardly hide under the protection of the Israeli government.

Reality is different than claimed by the UK and other countries. In 2005 I was recognized as a refugee. In 2009, the country that recognized me broke its diplomatic relations with Israel due to the crimes committed by the last in Gaza – many months before Justice Goldstone and the UN Human Rights Commission defined Israel as a terrorist organization. And in July of 2009, also my Israeli passport was robbed by Mossad agents; however, unlike the people of this last event I got an additional gift from the Mossad: my throat was crushed and most of my belongings were also robbed.

We are witnessing here what the Israeli media recently called "Benjamin Netanyahu 's Private Army," a group of criminals acting under the protection of a state defined by the UN Human Rights Commission as a terrorist entity. An army pursuing secrets goals defined by the very small oligarchy running Israel, an army making sure there is no peace because the war is their business and profit. Satan's Army.

(11) Israeli opposition leader Tzipi Livni hails Dubai Hamas killing

From: Sadanand, Nanjundiah (Physics Earth Sciences) <sadanand@mail.ccsu.edu> Date: 25.02.2010 01:04 PM

Livni hails Dubai Hamas killing, Feb 23, 2010, BBC News

Israeli opposition leader Tzipi Livni applauds the controversial killing of a Hamas commander in Dubai by suspected Israeli agents.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/2/hi/middle_east/8532009.stm

Page last updated at 19:28 GMT, Tuesday, 23 February 2010

Israeli politician Livni hails Dubai Hamas killing

Israeli opposition leader Tzipi Livni has applauded the controversial killing of a Hamas commander in a Dubai hotel by suspected Israeli agents.

"The fact that a terrorist was killed, and it doesn't matter if it was in Dubai or Gaza, is good news to those fighting terrorism," she said.

It is thought to be the first time a top Israeli has made such a comment.

Mahmoud al-Mabhouh was found dead in his room on 20 January, having been electrocuted and suffocated.

His alleged killers used fake British, Irish, German and French passports, according to the authorities in Dubai, which released pictures of the suspects, none of whom were caught.

Mr Mabhouh was one of the founders of Hamas's military wing.

The Israeli secret service Mossad has been widely accused of carrying out the killing but Israel has repeatedly asserted there is no proof its agents were involved.

'Fighting terrorism'

Mrs Livni, the former foreign minister who leads the parliamentary opposition for the Kadima party, did not indicate who was behind the killing.

"The entire world must support those fighting terrorism," she told a Jewish conference in Jerusalem.

"Any comparison between terrorism and those fighting it is immoral."

The current Israeli Foreign Minister, Avigdor Lieberman, responded to allegations of a Mossad plot last week by saying: "Israel never responds, never confirms and never denies."

Dubai security cameras picked up 18 members of what local police believe was a hit team.

Diplomatic tension between Western states and Israel has grown over the killing.