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Thursday, 18 February 2010
Fieldcraft
I'm not saying it was Mossad. I am saying it was an intelligence agency. A first rate one.
I'm also saying the Dubai Counter-Intelligence are very, very good indeed.
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Anonymous commenters - please add a signature (doesn't have to be your real name) on each post of yours. Anne O'Namus, Norm D. Ploom, Angry from Kent, Demosthenes, or even your real initials, it doesn't matter.
Commenters are expected to be polite to each other, but the same standard doesn't apply to comments regarding me.
Australian commenters are very very strongly advised to publish anonymously. Sydney alone has more defamation actions than the entire USA and UK. Nearly double that of the UK in fact.
As Google does not reliably inform me that a comment has been posted, and I have no control over first publication, I assert that all comments are innocently disseminated under the NSW DEFAMATION ACT 2005 - SECT 32 and similar acts.
Another day, another murder.
ReplyDeleteYet another example of why extradition treaties are typically a good thing - assuming that this was in retaliation for the murders محمود عبد الرؤوف المبحوح allegedly performed (and apparently confessed to).
ReplyDeleteAssassination is what happens when a powerful, violent group feels that it's impossible to gain justice against an individual in any other manner.
I have long said that there is seldom any justification for violence (to be absolutely clear and hedging my position, there is never any justification for civil violence based on prejudice). However, political assasinations are, to me at least, a different issue. For example, in hindsight, I don't think anyone but their cohorts would have been upset if Hitler or Pol Pot would have been assainated prior to their respective deeds. Granted these are extreme examples and seldom is such a matter of another's intentions so clear cut as in the above examples...obviously that is the conundrum when any assasination is carried out, i.e., who decides, based on what criteria, when someone is evil enough. Nonetheless, I feel that all but a relative few of the chosen have any feel for the very real evil that resides in geopolitical sphere; I think it would be quite disturbing to most of us if we had that knowledge.
ReplyDeleteI thouroughly enjoyed these videos, Zoe...thanks for posting them.