the more information that comes out, the more amateurish this operation appears and the less likely it seems it is the mossad. either the mossad is not the organization it once was or someone is trying to frame them. something doesn't add up.

that you conclude from the spots and ways the agents disguised the operation was "sloppy"... this disguise was NOT meant to NOT been "identified" on cctv. this shows two (more) things: (1) dubai doesnt even understand how a secret service operation works, not even when it is shown one in detail... this is embarrasing... (2) im freaking smart. but i have to admit: why this credit-card-thing links to mossad i didnt understand.

Israel should publish the photographs and identity information of each and every CIA, MI6 and DGSE operative on Israeli soil -- and yes, they are there and yes, Israel knows EXACTLY who they are. The United States, the United Kingdom and France need to learn that if you play with fire you should expect to get burned. Freaking hypocrites, all of them. Publish the identities and watch the whole issue miraculously go bye-bye. If it doesn't, publish the photographs and identities of American, British and French intelligence agents working in -- oh, pick your country. Here, too, yes, Israel knows exactly who they are. This nonsense has gone on far too long.

The sheer history and existence of Mossad creates paranoia everywhere in the Muslim world. Whether or not Mossad was behind doesn't matter, it's making the enemy fire accusations blindly in all directions. The inferior dhimmi strikes back. Nice feeling.

Doesn't seem likely that any top-notch intelligence agency from a modern country, like Israel, would be so sloppy and leave a trail to be tracked back to their country. If it was Mossad, they were very sloppy. On purpose or by accident? However, it seems more like a set up to me.

It was a private hit. ordered by civilians. All passports were manufactured in Thailand, surveillance and forensics indicates it was a cheap assassination (200K-1M$ Hit) . There were many motives to kill this target, by many individuals.

Excellent question. When it wishes, Mossad leaves a very clear signature. When it doesn't, deaths are attributed to accidents. Witness all those scientists working in Natanz. Witness all those Nazis never brought to justice who met an "unfortunate" or "untimely" end. Thousands, actually. Good question. Very good question.

...uhhh, it's not "paranoia" in the Muslim world folks. More like the walls are closing in for Fortress Israel. If I was an American authority, I would be watching these talkbacks for a clue about what the average American does nor does not support... It is quite interesting to note how some that call themselves "Americans" don't seem to have American security in mind. Indeed, quite the opposite.

Sorry -- please refresh my memory .... is Aldrich Ames an American? How about Robert Hansen? How about the Walker family? Alger Hiss? Whittaker Chambers? Golly gee. Yup. They sure are. So were Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. The difference? Well, which two people out of all the ones named were executed? Go to hell, Michael.

not sure if you guys know this (some of you may), but MOST if not all of the weapons that Hamas gets from Iran is smuggled via Dubai. Dubai is a giant weapons trade hub for Hamas and Iran. SO...with that said...if Israel is in fact thinking about bombing Iran's nuke facilities in the near future, by near future I mean within the next one or two months, it would be incumbent upon them to do anything they can cut off the flow of weapons to one of the fronts which will be used by Iran to retaliate against them...in this case, the guys who fire rockets from Gaza.

Cynthia and Sarah will draw the conclusions.Dont be in a hurry,please.They will look for a scape goat somewhere.

Listen, for a high tech country such as Dubai, the Mossad did a competent job on SUCH SHORT NOTICE. They got in and out and nobody was captured. Very Very Good. They made one mistake.... SOMEONE forgot to get to the servers holding the camera tapes and erase them..... These guys need to coordinate better.... Big WHoops...

Thank you to who ever did it. If it was the Mossad - well done. Let's look at this a bit differently - the Middle East is all a twitter about how the Mossad were able to infiltrate and eliminate this mamzer. I'll bet there are a lot of Hamas/Hezbollah members who now spend a lot more time looking in their rear view mirrors and checking under their beds when they go to sleep at night. If there is a Hell, Arafat has a new buddy to play poker with.

Dubai announces dribbles of information daily, keeping this event on front pages and reminding Hamas etc of Israel ability. I do not see how this lates news makes any connection to Israel - it is all speculation. Getting a lot of frenzied screeching from syria, Hezbull, Hamas Iran. They sound panicked

Why arent palestinian murderers and terrorists not on interpol arrest lists? Does Dubai only comply with interpol regarding non-arabs? Where is the outrage? If he was arrested by Dubai, he would still be alive, so in a way they were responsible for his death.

The assassins needed enough time to make a getaway. Hence they had to do the job in the hotel, at night. Probably did not have enough time to device a complex plan to fool the cctv cameras. Taking out these cameras would probably have triggered an alarm. The manner in which the "tennis players" tailed the victim, from check-in to the lift, to the same floor and then to the room, was amateurish and should have alerted the victim.

THAT IS WHY SHE CAN WRITE ALL SHE WANTS, SHE KNOWS WHAT SHE IS SAYING. HER COMMENTARIES ARE INFORMATIVE, THOUGHT PROVOKING AND A REAL PLEASURE TO READ.

A murderous SOB has been eliminated. With all the hand-wringing on the part of the Europeans, you would have thought the Mossad had carried out a hit on Mother Theresa.

Sarah B, why do you dislike Michael so much? What has Michael done to you to constantly feel the disgust you have for Michael and his right to free speech? Is it your upbringing?

That has to be most stupid idea I have ever heard, why don’t we just blast off both our feet with a shotgun while we are at it! I hate to say it but I think BBS is right and you are bad for Israel. I still can’t believe how dumb your idea is.

...that you can be led by the nose by a fan of ethnic cleansing who does not have Israel's best interest at heart. It's humorous and sad that she only seems to fool a couple of you. While the rest of us who have chosen to be informed rather than be led around by a confirmed wingnut are honestly concerned about Israel's ultimate survival, people like you support someone who want s to see Israel ultimately fail. Oh well. You can't say you were not warned.

The hit squad used forged passports. That was bad. Mabhouh used forged passports. That was OK. The hit squad took him out in Dubai. That was bad. He was in Dubai to negotiate (yet another) criminal Hamas weapons deal. That was OK. The hit squad took out a terrorist responsible for the deaths of countless Israelis. That was bad. Mabhouh was, as noted, responsible for the deaths of countless Israelis. That was OK. Moral of the story: you can do what you want to in Dubai, and anywhere else in the world, as long as you are acting against Israel. If you do something that might benefit Israel (to say nothing of the rest of mankind) then you have done something bad. Why am I not surprised?

Security at 5-star hotels in Dubai seems to be lax. All kinds of characters carrying suspicious baggage were walking in and out of the hotel.One of these could so easily have been a suicide bomber. After the 26/11 terrorist incident in Mumbai, security at 5-star hotels in India is very strict and these people would have been challenged by hotel security and frisked.Clearly the execution squad was carrying electronic/mechanical equipment to break into the victiim's hotel room. How did this get past the airport security and also the hotel securtiy? Also, when an attempt was made by the assassins to "reprogram the victim's door" why wasn't an alarm immediately triggered off? Surely an attempted break-in is too serious to be merely logged, without an alarm.

I find it hard to believe that Israel is aware of spies of foreign agencies operating on its soil - and does nothing. Where do you get this info? But if this is indeed the case, I think we should differentiate between British and American spies. This current crisis involves Britain, so we should only blow the cover on MI6 spies. As for CIA spies - they should have been arrested long ago and traded for Jonathan Pollard. It's only fair. However, again - I find it hard to believe this is actually the case.

Your attempt to impostor yourself as Israeli talkbackers is transparent and lame. Try to disguise yourself better next time, maybe you can learn from the Mossad.

People like you fool no one here. But as long as you want to play this game, here are some answers to your questions of Sarah B. "...why do you dislike Michael so much?" I assume you're speaking of Michael Hess (yeah, that's right, as in Rudolph Hess), the little low-life Indian boy lurking at every internet site dealing with Israel. I assume you're speaking of Michael Hess, the worthless, uneducated, unemployed piece of human debris who has long devoted his life to spewing his hate of Israel/Jews all over the internet. I assume you're speaking of Michael Hess, the degenerate living off of uncle sam, via welfare and social security disability, who finds nothing better to do with his life than to fling insults ("wingnut" and "useful idiot" are two of his favorites) and issue threats ("I'm sending your comment to Pres. Obama" and "I'm filing a law suit against this newspaper" are two of his favorites). Is THIS the "Michael" to whom you are referring? Gee, I wonder why Sarah B (and 99% of everybody else at Ynet, Haaretz, JPost, Wall Street Journal and every other medium with a website) dislikes him so much. As for "What has Michael done to you to constantly feel the disgust you have for Michael and his right to free speech?". Well, "Sarit", I guess you weren't around here a couple of months ago when your dear "Michael" stated that he had discovered the law firm employing Sarah B, and had sent some of her comments to the partners of that firm for the purpose of getting her fired. Perhaps a more appropriate question for you to ask would be "What have Israel/Jews ever done to Michael, a non-Jew, non-Arab, non-Muslim, atheist native American who has never been out of the Country, to engender such a vicious animosity toward Israel/Jews that he has foresaken all societal obligations to himself, his family and his Country just so that he can spend 24 hours a day spewing his anti-semitic venom, flinging insults and issuing threats to Jews and Israel-supporters on dozens of websites?" "Is it your upbringing?". I don't have any personal knowledge of Sarah B's upringing. From past postings/discussions, however, she is apparently an ivy-league law school graduate married to a physician, both of whom are practicing, productive members of society. Your dear "Michael", as previously noted, is a low-life, high-school dropout who has no job and no life outside of Jew-hating. Your dear "Michael" lives off the taxes paid by working, productive people like Sarah B (and me). Does that clear some things up for you, "Sarit", you fraud who thinks that just because you post with a fake Jewish name and a fake Jewish address, that you can pull the wool over our Jewish eyes?

Oh, Israel is very, very aware. I do not differentiate between ANY country's spies. I do not trust the current US administration. I am still wondering why Israel must account for 1300 dead Gazans, 900 of which were conclusively proven to be terrorist combatants while the United States is not taken to task for EIGHTEEN THOUSAND DEAD CIVILIANS in Afghanistan, Iraq and Waziristan. Oh, blow US spies' identities to hell and gone. Who cares? They're incompetent, anyway.