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Apparently a senior HAMAS official got his butt smacked a few days ago in Dubai. From the Times Online edition (reproduced under the Fair Dealing provisions (§29) of the Copyright Act):
"[k]illed by an electrical appliance that was held to his head..." ??? I've read a lot of stories over the years about various assassinations (fictional and non-fictional) and I can't think of any electrical appliance that you could 'apply' to someones head to kill them by electrocution! Heck, if you can get that close just whack them. I'm sure that if Ziva got that close she could have knocked him off blindfolded and one arm tied behind her back!
The alleged hit took place either the 19th or 20th of Jan and the authorities are only now reporting the killing. Apparently the reason for the delay is so that the authorities could track down those responsible and bring them to justice . However, if, as they say, MOSSAD was responsible, the agents would have used false passports and once the deed was done they would have high-tailed it out there as fast as possible and are probably now sitting in some safehouse on the beaches near Tel Aviv sucking a few cold Maccabee's and enjoying themselves. Lets face it, if was a professional hit team, and you haven't caught them in a week and a half, it unlikely you will.
My Emphasis.Hamas accuses Israel of assassinating exiled chief Mahmoud al-Mabhouh
The Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas today accused Israel of assassinating one of its military chiefs in Dubai, a man who helped to found the group’s armed wing and who was behind the kidnap and killing of two Israeli soldiers in the first intifada 21 years ago.
Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, a key figure in ongoing smuggling operations to bring weapons into the blockaded Gaza Strip, was killed in a hotel on January 20, Hamas officials said.
He is believed to have been behind the smuggling of truck loads of weapons into Gaza through Sudan last year, an operation that was targeted by Israeli warplanes.
Hamas officials refused to specify the circumstances of his death until an inquiry had been held and hinted that the delay in announcing the killing was part of a bid to capture his assassins.
However, his brother, Faiq, said that he had been electrocuted to death.
“The first results of a joint investigation by Hamas and the United Arab Emirates show he was killed by an electrical appliance that was held to his head,” he said.
Israel has so far declined to comment on the charge. It has carried out numerous overseas assassinations of Palestinian military leaders in the past, as well as killing a number of Hamas heads inside the Palestinian territories in air strikes, including the group’s wheelchair-bound spiritual leader, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, in 2004.
One of the highest profile assassination attempts was of the Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal in Jordan in 1997, when Israeli agents squirted poison in to his ear. Jordanian police caught the two agents and held them until Israel agreed to hand over the antidote to the toxin.
Izzat Rashaq, a senior Hamas official in Damascus, said that al-Mabhouh, a 50-year-old father of four from the Jabalya refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, had masterminded the kidnap and killing of two Israeli soldiers, Avi Sasportas and Ilan Saadon, during the first Palestinian popular uprising against Israel in the late 1980s.
The two soldiers were kidnapped in separate incidents in 1989. The body of one of them was only discovered seven years later.
Al-Mabhouh is believed to have pioneered the movement’s tactic of abducting soldiers to exert pressure on Israel. Hamas has been holding one Israeli soldier, Gilad Shalit, inside Gaza for the past three and a half years.
Al-Mabhouh had been in Israeli prisons on different occasions before being exiled and taking up residence, together with many other Hamas leaders, in Damascus. He was killed one day after he arrived in Dubai.
Hamas did not say what he was doing in the city, which many militants groups use as a financial hub. Hamas is widely accused of receiving financial and military backing from neighbouring Iran.
Hamas, which Israel has blockaded in the Gaza Strip for the past three years and which it tried to topple in a brief war last year, said that it would seek vengeance against the Jewish state.
"We in Hamas hold the Zionist enemy responsible for the criminal assassination of our brother and we pledge to God and to the blood of the martyrs and to our people to continue his path of jihad and martyrdom," a statement issued by the movement said.
The group pledged to "retaliate for this Zionist crime at the appropriate time and place."
It added that al-Mabhouh would be buried today in a Palestinian refugee camp near Damascus.
"[k]illed by an electrical appliance that was held to his head..." ??? I've read a lot of stories over the years about various assassinations (fictional and non-fictional) and I can't think of any electrical appliance that you could 'apply' to someones head to kill them by electrocution! Heck, if you can get that close just whack them. I'm sure that if Ziva got that close she could have knocked him off blindfolded and one arm tied behind her back!
The alleged hit took place either the 19th or 20th of Jan and the authorities are only now reporting the killing. Apparently the reason for the delay is so that the authorities could track down those responsible and bring them to justice . However, if, as they say, MOSSAD was responsible, the agents would have used false passports and once the deed was done they would have high-tailed it out there as fast as possible and are probably now sitting in some safehouse on the beaches near Tel Aviv sucking a few cold Maccabee's and enjoying themselves. Lets face it, if was a professional hit team, and you haven't caught them in a week and a half, it unlikely you will.