Thread: Mahmoud al-Mabhouh Assassination

Originally Posted by sycld

Oh right, because if any Arab group really wanted to, they couldn't recruit 25 European-looking people to carry out their dirty work, or Mossad couldn't pick 25 of their Ashkenazi agents who looked less Ashkenazi than is typical.

Also, your accusation of this being some conspiracy of Israel and "the West" against the Arabs is baseless and sounds paranoid.

I don't think agencies will select entire assassination teams based on race. Twenty-five people is a lot, if it's true then you have to consider if it is worth it for any group or agency to select assassins solely based on race (and in the process forgoing priorities such as ability/skill). I also doubt that an Arab group could "recruit" 25 reliable and skillful Caucasians to assassinate a political leader in another foreign country. The only reason you should continue to disagree is if you know/assume there to be a giant spy industry which can provide large numbers of agents to foreign parties. That honestly may be the case, just look at all the war-profiteering pvt. "security" firms there are. For example, the scandalous Blackwater, which now goes by Xe Services. This corp. owns Greystone Limited - "A private security service, Greystone is registered in Barbados, and employs third country nationals for offshore security work through its affiliate Satelles Solutions, Inc. http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/man/2006/06/17/news/senator.to.look.into.mercenary.list.up.exercises.i n.subic.html There are probably 50 private military companies for every one we hear about on the news. And if you don't think the agents are being supplied by private companies, you must think there are many reliable rogue mercenaries that do not identify with a single country or a single corporate affiliation. I'm assuming that is not possible.
The questions are:
(1)Does Israel have a private security industry? And if not, (2) have foreign security companies ever supplied Israel with assassins?

So it's possible it's insignificant, I think I made that clear in the post you replied to. I also did not suggest any sort of conspiracy whatsoever. It is just that while considering the possible assassins, I tend to divide it been the west and the Arab world. It could have come from either side. Or maybe they worked together, as Arab countries with officially cold relations with Israel have been discovered collaborating with Israeli intelligence. I am suspicious of the US or Israel working with Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan or even ironically the UAE! Also, whether or not there is a conspiracy, the west (again, including Israel) has not had a hands off policy regarding covert operations in the Middle East (European countries included although somehow I bet they conduct operations/assassinations in the present day ME very rarely if ever - this essentially limits the west down to the US & Israel). And obviously Israel is the one with the clearest motive.

EDIT: After reading this post I created under the influence, I may have obsessed on a few things. Oh well

Ahem, http://blogs.aljazeera.net/middle-east/2010/02/25/obvious-role-us-investigators-dubai-murder-case