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Assassins had Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in sight as soon as he got to Dubai
Hugh Tomlinson, Dubai
Mahmoud al-Mabhouh took no notice of the two men who joined him in the lift of
his hotel in Dubai during the short ride to the second floor on the
afternoon of January 20.
One was short and portly with a moustache, the other tall. Dressed in sports
gear and carrying tennis rackets, they looked like any other European
tourists visiting the Gulf state for some winter sun.
He did not realise that the two men were part of an 11-strong team that had
come to kill him. In just over five hours he would be dead.
Stepping out of the lift, al-Mabhouh was escorted to room 230 by a member of
staff at the Al Bustan Rotana hotel, near Dubai airport. Unnoticed, the
taller man followed him down the corridor, clocking his room number and that
of the room opposite, 237. In the hours that followed, room 237 became the
staging post for the audacious murder of the senior Hamas official.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article7029669.ece
Report: Al-Mabhouh was at top of Mossad's hit list
British
columnist Gordon Thomas, who wrote book on Israeli intelligence agency,
says recent Dubai assassination of senior Hamas figure 'a classic
example of how Mossad goes about its work'
Ynet
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02.17.10, 15:13 |
In the past year, senior Hamas figure
Mahmoud al-Mabhouh had moved to the top of Mossad's list of targets,
"each of which must be legally approved under guidelines laid down over
half a century ago by Meir Amit, the most innovative and ruthless
director-general of the service," Daily Telegraph columnist Gordon
Thomas wrote.
Al-Mabhouh was recently assassinated
in Dubai. Hamas claims Israel's
intelligence agency was behind the hit.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3850586,00.html