Yeah sorry... Seems to me Shabak performs the kinds of operations, successfully, that Matkal, Mossad, et al., used to do up until about the 1990's. How well does the IDF prepare its troops? Read the slightly dated but relevant "188th Crybaby Brigade" to hear how the IDF's "crack" front line 188th armor brigade was run in the 1990's... Look at the 2006 Lebanon War, look at the hakpatza against the isolated Gaza guard tower this past summer... Amateurism defined. Sad times for the mighty IDF. Shabak, by comparison, sets the bar by any standard, on internal security, CT and Psyops, targeted assassinations, etc. Kol ha kavod Shabak. Tzahal management... get with the program.