Results 1 to 34 of 34

Thread: Mahmoud al-Mabhouh Assassination

Hybrid View

Previous Post Previous Post   Next Post Next Post
  1. #1
    Senior Member Syme's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jan 2009
    Posts
    769
    Credits
    0
    Mentioned
    0 Post(s)

    Default

    Quote Originally Posted by mrbazoun View Post
    Nobody is saying they have 'Jew faces,' just European/white ones, for the most part.
    This is what you said:

    Quote Originally Posted by mrbazoun
    The alternative is basically that there is some other highly organised, well funded outfit (read: state agency) out there who has a motive for killing Hamas operatives, who has 1 or 2 dozen operatives working for them that all look remarkably Jewish.
    Not white, not European, not Caucasian, but "remarkably Jewish".

    Quote 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 really, seriously don't think the photos in and of themselves have much value as evidence at all (more on that below). But what I'm calling preposterous isn't the idea of using the photos as evidence, it's the idea of looking at the photos and then saying "Oh what a pack of Jews they look like, that's another thing to throw on the pile of evidence pointing to Mossad!" And as I've said before, I do think Mossad is the prime suspect here, so it's not like I'm refusing to accept that possibility and trying to dismiss anything that incriminates them.

    Yeah, the hit squad appears to be predominantly Caucasian. Yeah, if VEVAK or an Arab intelligence agency picked 20 people at random from their personnel files, they wouldn't come up with a mix that looks like that. Frankly, though, I don't think you or I or any of us is qualified to comment on how impractical it would be, or how close to "impossible" it would be, or whether it's "far-fetched bullshit", for an intelligence agency to get two dozen white-looking people for an operation like this. I really have no idea whether it's near-impossible or comparatively easy or somewhere in between, and I'm fairly sure you don't either. That's the sort of intelligence tradecraft thing that us ordinary civilians really can't guess at very effectively. The possibility of organized crime involvement (which was mentioned in some early reports on the killing, although I haven't heard much about it recently) makes it even harder to say anything meaningful about the impracticality of it.

    Once again, I do think Mossad is the most likely culprit. I just don't think that the fact that the killers are "white-looking" is a point of evidence against Mossad.

  2. #2
    Senior Member
    Join Date
    Oct 2008
    Location
    USA
    Posts
    50
    Credits
    38
    Mentioned
    0 Post(s)

    Default

    Quote Originally Posted by Syme View Post
    This is what you said:



    Not white, not European, not Caucasian, but "remarkably Jewish".

    That is Mr Shrike's quote. I never said that.

    I can't be sure on the impracticality of employing 30 white assassins. It is something to keep in mind though.
    Last edited by mrbazoun; 03-18-2010 at 02:45 PM.

  3. #3
    Senior Member Syme's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jan 2009
    Posts
    769
    Credits
    0
    Mentioned
    0 Post(s)

    Default

    Quote Originally Posted by mrbazoun View Post
    That is Mr Shrike's quote. I never said that.
    Ahh oops sorry about that... somehow I thought you had said it. My mistake.

Similar Threads

  1. Failed assassination attempt on Bush
    By Mad Pino Rage in forum WTF News
    Replies: 18
    Last Post: 12-17-2008, 08:23 PM

Tags for this Thread

Bookmarks

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •