Somehow I think a lot of foreign spies who had nothing to do with it just got burnt including US,UK etc

out this assassination but we now know that two people of concern left Dubai after the assassination for Iran. Does that not raise questions? We also know that the Mossad is extraordinarily clever. Would the Mossad have completed such a botched up job as this one? There are just too many contradictions and inherent complexities to be so quick to put responsibility on the Mossad. Eventually, we will know a good deal more about this event. So to all the Readers and especially the Talkbackers who assume that the Mossad was the party responsible, a more reflective and thoughtful analysis is certainly in order.

The pics and the names have already been released by the Dubai authorities, it's public knowledge, it won't make any difference if ynet prints them. Plus--you can bet that if it was really Mossad agents traveling under these passports, they don't look like the people pictured on the passports in real life and they don't use those names. So don't worry about ynet publishing or not.

Soon they will say it was a gdud

Regardless of who did it, regardless of who this guy was, the operation was "clean". no civilians targeted. Can the Pals, Hez, Iran play that way? They cant, then only way they can move forward is assymetrical, different ROEs. Perhaps when all payers go by the same ROEs, this would be over.

How curious that the only suspects thus far arrested have been PALESTINIANS - two arrested in Jordan, one in Syria - and that at least three of the latest suspects fled to IRAN! Lieberman is right. Aside from the handful of names of Israeli dual-nationals, nothing links this hit to Israel or Mossad. Those names could have been plucked from airline records of passengers flying to Israel. Doesn't mean we don't enjoy Israel's enemies looking over their shoulders.

Dear Prime Minister Rudd, You really should take this opportunity to break open a bottle of champagne and raise a toast to whoever killed this evil terrorist who has blood on his hands. The whole point here is the world is a better place with one terrorist leader dead...everything else is secondary.

who could have eliminated this scumbag with two maybe three people. 26 people? that sounds like the inefficiency of the arab factions

you my email address. Rudd should put another shrimp on the barbie and hope he doesn't get on the list.

identities.

I wonder who has been more hit after all.

This has really turned into a dog and pony show with Israel's media having a circus themselves - can Israel and the people of Israel get a simple piece of evidence before such demonstrations? Let's say there is evidence that's not being shared with the commoners, at least say you have evidence, note how pissed off you are, and deal with it diplomatically in a balanced way, taking into account the common goal to fight terror. Otherwise no one should take any of it for anything else but another unjust attack on Israel.

If there was any passport forgery, it seems highly unlikely that so many countries were involved. Even creating one believable passport is an effort. Why try to make 10 different types of t passports from 10 different countries. why not 10 passports from the same country. If one passport is enough to travel freely in Dubai, why not make 26. I believe Dubai's government is so embarrassed that its trying to embroil Israel with the entire world. It portrays a scheme that it can claim was so elaborate, none could have stopped it while in reality, they were simply too lazy and inefficient to do so.

It's called 'protocol'. If my Govt, don't call the ambassador it looks kinda bad. Rudd needs to walk the walk and talk the talk in order to get re-elected. So, it's just noise to show that Aus. is responsible and a player. Go Israel!! We as a nation support you in the international war on terror. We Aussies are well aware of the fact that who ever did this was simply emtying out the trash.

Now that Israel has embarrassed itself yet again does it not get tired of the constant self humiliation? First it was abuse of Irish passports, then British & German which cumulated in the Israeli foreign minister engaging in cover-ups and denials when summoned to Brussels. Now he will have to answer questions from Canberra. Does Israel never grow tired of all the lies and deception that it spins to the upstanding/respectful nations of the world? It seems that Israel is bent on being the most unpopular/hated nation on Earth. To steal & use state documents of another nation to carry out assassinations is downright dirty and repugnant! But alas, it is the way of Israel! I can see the rest of the world getting more fed up and more fed up of Israel's continuous reckless behaviour and contempt for every other nation until a point is reached where the Israel 'state' has isolated itself so much from everybody else that its multitude of enemies will find it to be an easy target.

Does anyone honestly believe that mossad would use 26 agents to kill ONE terrorist?

One thing though - It is a great honor if the whole world thinks that ONLY the Mossad could pulled it off !!!

If its shown that the state of Israel messed with Australian passports then I want our governement to stop being friends with Israel. Its not proven yet but if it goes that way then it would be disgusting to take advantage of a friend.

Ok Gr8 ill call you when i am in LA :-)

they found out you can't keep quiet as well! Look what you did to them. Shut the hell up already - Australia is piss-pot country at world's-end and is too far away for anyone to care about.

DUBAI AND IT'S ACCUSATIONS ARE CHANGING EVERYDAY. MORE NAMES AND " ACCOMPLICES " ARE ADDED EVERY DAY BY DUBAI. EURO COUNTRIES' INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES ARE PROBABLY VERY NERVOUS RIGHT NOW. THE MORE THIS CIRCUS ENRAVELS, THE GREATER THE CHANCE THAT THE EUROS ' OWN INTELLIGENCE OPERATIONS AND SPIES COULD BE AT RISK OF BEING EXPOSED. SOME MIGHT SPECULATE THAT IRAN IS THE COUNTRY THAT IS EGGING ON DUBAI TO CONTINUE UNEARTHING MORE " INFORMATION ". THIS CAN PROVE TO BE EMBARRASING TO MANY EURO SPY AGENCIES, AND PERHAPS THE U.S. AS WELL. NO ONE HAS SO FAR PRESENTED A CLEAR PICTURE OF WHAT IS UNFOLDING HERE. NO RELIABLE SOURCES HAVE COME OUT AND CONCLUSIVLY PROVED ISRAEL OR ANYONE ELSE DID THE JOB. THIS SITUATION IS VERY MURKY AS HAMAS IS BLAMING FATAH FOR THIS. NOW, TWO PAL ARABS HAVE BEEN NAMED AS BEING INVOLVED. TRUTH BE TOLD THAT MOST PEOPLE HAVE NO REAL STATED INSIGHTS OR FACTS AS TO WHAT IS GOING ON HERE. WE MAY ALL HAVE OUR OWN OPINIONS AND OUR OWN FAVOURITES. BUT WE MAY AS WELL ADMIT THAT AT THIS POINT IN TIME, WE DON'T REALLY KNOW THE WHOLE TRUTH AND WE MAY NEVER KNOW IT ALL..

Obviously not. There hasn't been one ity bity piece of objective evidence linking Israel to the murder. If there even was a murder. For all we know, Mahbouh had a fatal heart attack and the assassination was staged as an after thought. You have two Palestinian supects in custody, Hamas members linked to the crime and suspected assassins escaping to Iran. Yet you're still frothing at the mouth over Israel. Stop humiliating yourself.

Lebanon war, isolation ...Gaza war, isolation ... passport affair, more isolation. have you noticed that; never has UK, Ireland, Germany or Australia asked whether al-Mabhouh was terrorist or not.

If this was Israel's work, Rudd must be seen to 'do something' but nobody is truly outraged - just fascinated.

This is so shiite, I bet the Iranians did to to frame Israel and ruin israel's reputation and ruin Israel's name within the Int'l community but I think Israel doesn't need anyone who believes this nonsense and if Australians are standing against Israel with no evidence to frame Mossad then I think you dont need those worthless Aussies. to hell with them. you always have NZ

CK, they seem to like that 99% number. So it is used in their poiltics as well. Coinsidentally, all the Arab Leaders win their democratic elections by a 99% margin. Maybe it is a lucky number in their culture. The definition of the statement by the Dubai Chief of Police that he is 99% sure that Mossad did it is, we still haven't found a Jew we can pin it on yet but we are working on this.