Reply to: Not Mossad, honest

[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.

[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

[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"?

[Scary]

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

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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!

[Troll]

It's actually nice to see our passports being put to good use

[Paddy]

Israeli Ambassador: Does Britain give full backing for Israel to assonate Mahmoud al-Mabhouh's?

David Miliband: Yes off course, you have our full backing.

Mosad: Let’s see how far Britain is going to publicly back us.

David Miliband:

[MarillionFan]

Lucky the agent in tennis gear wasn't pretending to be Tim Henman, otherwise when it came to the crunch he'd be the one choking instead of Mahmoud...

LOL! Gag of the day!

[minestrone]

Tennis gear was pretty clever I think, basically allowed them to walk about with 2 weapons in their hands and a towel to stick in his face to stop him shouting.

[ratewhore]

It'll all turn out right in the end - the boy milliband is on the case...

[Sockpuppet]

Made me larf did that!

The tennis gear just made the assassination if you ask me. From now on all spooks should try and make thier assassinations as wildy hollywood and over the top as possible. Just to provide us simple folk with some entertainment hetty wainthrope who dunnit style.

[Stan.goodvibes]

Lucky the agent in tennis gear wasn't pretending to be Tim Henman, otherwise when it came to the crunch he'd be the one choking instead of Mahmoud...