Thread: Mahmoud al-Mabhouh Assassination

Originally Posted by mrbazoun

EDIT: I think it is wrong to dismiss the photos of the suspects as 'preposterous' evidence. That is what this disagreement boils down to. Nobody bothers to consider the impracticality/impossibility of employing a bunch of white assassins to confuse everyone on the origin of the attack. That is some far-fetched bullshit. If you ignore all my points, respond to just this one.

I may be mistaken in the point I am about to make, so do tell me if I am, but: who was it, again, who blew up a bomb in the London underground? What was his ethnicity?

(Even if I am wrong -- I recall that it was a white Londoner -- the point remains that it seems to me to be ludicrously easy to recruit a bunch of foreign assassins who are politically sympathetic to make the hit. Not far-fetched in the slightest. Especially considering how many politically sympathetic foreigners there ARE in the world.)

I think the photos should be dismissed as meaningless until or unless they can be paired with or used to discover the guys' identities. Their look is absolutely not meaningful in any way.

Originally Posted by gwahir

I may be mistaken in the point I am about to make, so do tell me if I am, but: who was it, again, who blew up a bomb in the London underground? What was his ethnicity?

(Even if I am wrong -- I recall that it was a white Londoner -- the point remains that it seems to me to be ludicrously easy to recruit a bunch of foreign assassins who are politically sympathetic to make the hit. Not far-fetched in the slightest. Especially considering how many politically sympathetic foreigners there ARE in the world.)

I think the photos should be dismissed as meaningless until or unless they can be paired with or used to discover the guys' identities. Their look is absolutely not meaningful in any way.

Four Brits, 3 Pakis, and one Jamaican.

I definitely see your point but there just seem to be so many differences between these 2 scenarios. One is an assassination, the other a terrorist attack. One involves 7 people while the other has close to 30. I do believe it to be possible for an Arab group to recruit 30 white people to assassinate someone, I just find it extremely unlikely they would go through the trouble for Hamas (especially considering all those legit fake passports) But yeah, i've made my point.