By: shothotbot
From The Economist this weekend: WITH a lot less exposure in the world's press than it got for its recent Dubai operation, Israel has quietly suffered a string of setbacks in Lebanon, a front-line...
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How Many Jews Work for Mossad? British journalist Douglas Murray and The New Republic's Marty Peretz pick up on a BBC interview with Gordon Thomas, writer of a book on Mossad. He estimated that between...
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There is an article in the WSJ today (paywall, I think) by Bob Baer, former CIA operative, who says that a 25 person team is the minimum required to pull off a "controlled" assassination -- i.e., one...
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War in Context on The Dubai-Payoneer connection. As Clayton Swisher notes : It's not clear if the FBI is silently participating or if its officials are fence-sitting. If it's the latter, then they may...
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Specialization, shifts, coverage, backup, cleanup, coordination. Mossad's model is not the lone sniper of TV & movie fame but a large team of specialists each focused on one aspect of the attack...
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So now they are up to something like 20 "agents" following this guy around. Why on earth so many people?
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I have. It is an interesting read, not least because Thomas seems to have got pretty good access to some of its spooks.
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Gideon's Spies: The Secret History of the Mossad by Gordon Thomas looks like an interesting history of the Mossad - has anyone read it?
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Follow the money. The Associated Press says Dubai police tied MetaBank to another american company Payoneer Inc., which provides prepaid mastercards issued by Metabank and other lenders. Mr Zeevi the...
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Update: six more British passports identified, and at least one Australian passport used in the Dubai operation.
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Guardian Middle East Editor Ian Black had an interesting article last Friday: The truth about the MossadThe recent, outlandish assassination in Dubai may prove the most damaging yet in the Mossad's...
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Israeli immigration officials copied British passports used by hit squad, ministers told
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Insight from Juan Cole: As rightwing policies more visibly fail, the Likudniks are flailing around making fools of themselves by smearing critics of those policies as racists.
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Former Mossad Katsa Victor Ostrovsky agrees, says the operation was probably rushed.
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It's sounding more & more likely that it was a Kidon team: UK Relations with Israel "in the Deep Freeze" over Dubai Assassination.
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Stop the conspiracy theory, guys, This cannot be the Mossad, Avigor lieberman said so. A sketchy plan with too many variables and too many people involved (fake passports from Ireland, the U.K. AND...
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A very interesting one I've not decided yet. I'm assuming that you are not talking about arbitrary territory, but more in line with what has been happening. So you mean when the United States bombs the...
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