Not Mossad, honest

[Stan.goodvibes]

Well I have to say I'm a bit confused about the whole thing - there are literally thousands of unsolved murders in the civilised world every year, how difficult would it be if you are Mossad to take someone out discreetly??? I mean, which part of 'Secret Service' do you not understand?

And it takes 11 assasins to kill ONE guy? Jeez, James Bond can take out a load of guys in just a few hours.

Mossad = unscary = FAIL!

[NorthWestPerm2Contr]

Mossad = top secret service in the world.

There is a reason they wanted this to get out .... maybe to scare off anybody who is any kind of threat to them or maybe as a diversion. Don't underestimate them.

[OwlHoot]

Mossad = top secret service in the world.

There is a reason they wanted this to get out .... maybe to scare off anybody who is any kind of threat to them or maybe as a diversion. Don't underestimate them.

Maybe the cheeky use of fake passports is partly an "eff you" to countries who the Israelis think have been too sympathetic to the Palestian side in the Middle East peace talks.

They may have even been hoping to sow doubt in Arab eyes that the passports were faked and the perps were Mossad, although that doesn't seem to have worked.

[Stan.goodvibes]

There is a reason they wanted this to get out .... maybe to scare off anybody who is any kind of threat to them or maybe as a diversion. Don't underestimate them.

What? I always thought they were hard as nails, especially after they hunted down every terrorist involved in the Munich Olympic fiasco. OK, so they killed that innocent dude by mistake, but lets not quibble over one waiter. Very ruthless, very efficient.

or they were. Now they just look amateurish and comical. Eleven assassins? badly faked British passports? In fact the more I think about it the more I reckon it can't have been them, just because it is all so mickey mouse.

[Scary]

One of them was disguised as a woman, like Ehud Barak in 1973.

[NotAllThere]

Well I have to say I'm a bit confused about the whole thing - there are literally thousands of unsolved murders in the civilised world every year...

Yes there are, but they're not usually of high profile, heavily bodyguarded individuals, in countries where sympathy will broadly lie with the victim.

It takes 11 Mossad agents to take out one top Hamas guy, without anyone else injured or killed. It takes how many US troops to get Saddam Hussein, or fail to get Osama Bin Laden, with how much "collateral damage"?

[Paddy]

(IsraelNN.com) Britain's Daily Mail paper reports that Israel's Mossad informed Britain's MI6 that it was carrying out an overseas operation using British passports. According to the report, the British government knew that Israel was using British passports for the purpose of the operation. "It wasn't a request for permission, but rather a courtesy call," a British security source is quoted as saying.

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/136085

[Sysman]

Yes there are, but they're not usually of high profile, heavily bodyguarded individuals, in countries where sympathy will broadly lie with the victim.

It takes 11 Mossad agents to take out one top Hamas guy, without anyone else injured or killed. It takes how many US troops to get Saddam Hussein, or fail to get Osama Bin Laden, with how much "collateral damage"?

Aye, remember the failed US attempt to rescue the Iranian hostages as well.

This story does make you wonder about the sanity of leaving your passport with hotel reception when in foreign climes.