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2010-03-01 Arabia

Hamas leader drugged & suffocated: Dubai police

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Posted by Fred 2010-03-01 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top
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#1 Apparently Mahmoud's treatment was a lot gentler than his treatment of his own victim's. NO sympathy here.

Posted by tipover 2010-03-01 01:03|| 2010-03-01 01:03|| Front Page Top

#2 They still have yet to explain all the honey and chicken feathers stuck to his rear end.

Posted by Anonymoose 2010-03-01 09:04|| 2010-03-01 09:04|| Front Page Top

#3 ...with two suspects leaving Dubai by boat for Iran.

BWAHAhahahahaha...

Oh, that's rich. Dis they leave any bread crumbs?

Posted by mojo 2010-03-01 10:25|| 2010-03-01 10:25|| Front Page Top

#4 Another new tidbit of interest from the WSJ:

Assassins in our midst! Two of the 26 suspects wanted in the January 20 Dubai assassination of a Hamas leader entered the U.S. after the hit job, sources tell The Wall Street Journal. One entered the country on February 14 with a British passport and another on January 21 with an Irish passport. There is no record of either having left the U.S., though its possible they exited with different papers, since their passports are suspected of being fraudulent. Dubais police chief has said he is 99 percent certain the Israeli intelligence service Mossad is responsible for the assassination, though he has not provided evidence to back up that claim.

Posted by Lumpy Elmoluck5091 2010-03-01 10:28|| 2010-03-01 10:28|| Front Page Top

#5 Could this possibly be a multi-agency hit??? It would give all involved plausible deniability, coordinated with lots of operatives ignorant of the others' part. Probably just wishful thinking.

Posted by Lumpy Elmoluck5091 2010-03-01 10:45|| 2010-03-01 10:45|| Front Page Top

#6 This operation could have been carried out using one or two personnel. What took place appears to have all the elements of a live-fire, clandestine service training academy graduation execise.

Posted by Besoeker 2010-03-01 10:52|| 2010-03-01 10:52|| Front Page Top

#7 Two of the 26 suspects wanted in the January 20 Dubai assassination of a Hamas leader entered the U.S. after the hit job,

If they poke their heads into Rantburg's O Club, they'll drink for free all evening. Such a good deed ought to be rewarded.

Posted by trailing wife 2010-03-01 12:03|| 2010-03-01 12:03|| Front Page Top

#8 There is no record of either having left the U.S., though it's possible they exited with different papers, since their passports are suspected of being fraudulent.

Unlike most countries, the U.S. doesn't check passports when people leave, so there wouldn't be a government record of them leaving. Airlines check passports to ensure the passengers will be able to enter the place they're flying to, but that's about it.

Posted by Cowboy is a compliment 2010-03-01 13:34|| 2010-03-01 13:34|| Front Page Top

#9 I still think it was an assassination by stampede! All those feet running towards a shoe giveaway. And, Mab-hoo did get himself a pair. Was the GPS system in his old shoes? Will Sherlock, in Dubai, ever let us see the alias Mab-hoo was using? Was evidence thrown into the shark tank at the mall? Wait for the whack-a-mole The Musical.

Posted by Carol Herman 2010-03-01 15:08|| 2010-03-01 15:08|| Front Page Top

#10 If they were axphixiating him, why didn't they make it look like an INXS wanking-game gone wrong?

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2010-03-01 17:03|| 2010-03-01 17:03|| Front Page Top

#11 Dubai authorities have identified 26 people suspected of involvement in his killing.

When they "allege" Mossad involvement, maybe what they mean is that the entire Mossad staff just took a field trip to Dubai?

Didn't the British run India for a few centuries with a staff about that size?

Posted by Halliburton - Mysterious Conspiracy Division 2010-03-01 19:32|| 2010-03-01 19:32|| Front Page Top

#12 #10 If they were axphixiating him, why didn't they make it look like an INXS wanking-game gone wrong?
Posted by: Bright Pebbles

I woulda been OK with a bizarre sex act with a ferret gone wrong. Those are always fun for CSI

Posted by Frank G 2010-03-01 19:43|| 2010-03-01 19:43|| Front Page Top

#13 Coulda got the wrong end of his goat . . . .

Posted by gorb 2010-03-01 21:46|| 2010-03-01 21:46|| Front Page Top

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