As evidence mounts pointing to Mossad responsibility for the Dubai assassination, most diplomats would be in damage control mode, especially with the European nations who had passports forged in the plot.
Not Israel’s top diplomat, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, however, who angrily rebuffed a British request for cooperation in the investigation of stolen British passport data. His British counterpart, David Miliband, said he intends to underscore to Lieberman the “seriousness of the issue.”
But for the time being the Israeli foreign ministry seems determined to take the “official ambiguity” position beyond all levels of reason. In later comments, Lieberman blamed “the Arabs” for fueling the controversy, and declared that Arab nations “are not as democratic as Israel is.”
The January assassination saw several apparent Mossad members infiltrate a Dubai hotel and kill a key Hamas member. Dubai police are already seeking the arrest of Mossad Chief Mair Dagan, and have suggested they may also seek an arrest warrant against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is said to have signed off on the attack.
But the biggest controversy stemming from the plot was the stolen passport data, including several people with dual British-Israeli citizenship who had their data stolen and used by the assassins. All of the Britons were in Israel at the time of the killing, and were apparently unaware that their data had been compromised.
What will spur the next civil war here in the US is when international police come to apprehend war criminals bush(s), cheney, gates and we will be helping to capture & then turn them over. The police & military will fragment over having to shoot it's citizens it was supposed to defend.
LOL! The populace, or should I say the "progressive" "anti-war" populace rising up to do anything. We will be helping to capture them? Now that's funny!
"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf."
You really shouldn't call them 'men', they are paid to let someone else do their thinking for them and the violence they do is for their own pleasure.
What can you expect from a child molester? Avigdor Lieberman a few years ago plead guilty to battering a Jewish, [don’t be surprised that brutality is not always racist with this sort], child so badly that hospitalization was required. He paid damages and a fine.
What sort of nation/society elevates such a creature to high office? Thuggery, be it murder or child maim, is Lieberman’s calling card, is Israel’s hallmark. .
Israel is Democratic? You could have fooled me! What about the miseries they cause Palestinians.
Oh, I see. Because Israel is "democratic" it can do whatever the fuck it wants.
If evidence can be found which clearly links members of the Netanyahu administration to this murder, Dubai should request that Interpol issue arrest warrants, and indicted members of this government should risk arrest if they leave Israel. The same should be done in all such cases, regardless which country perpetrates the act. Likewise, the countries whose passports are falsified and used should begin expelling diplomats until such time as cooperation in any investigation is forthcoming. No cooperation, no diplomatic, trade or cultural representation. People traveling to Israel or on El Al should assume that personal information in their travel documents is not secure.
Might it be worth pointing out that the British FM, Milibrand, is Jewish and prior to the Mossad passport flap he was working diligently to make sure that Israelis traveling to Britain would not be charged under universal jurisdiction for war crimes and crimes against humanity, no matter how justified those charges might be? And if the US can kill its own citizens on the word of an intelligence official, there won't be even a peep from this side of the pond. Look for this whole matter to drop down the memory hole and rather soon.
Notice, not any investigation on the USA issued credit cards. I recall a few years ago,the CIA wanted a hit on Iraq and requested 11 passports from Ottawa and to their surprize received 20 blank ones and an note;If you need more–just call.
Listen,if USA/Canada/France/UK/Germany were serious,they would force all their media networks to run adds–Pictures and front line captions–most wanted reward for capture.
Dead media issue ?–You Bet! But the photos of the SUPPOSED 19 hi-Jackers,still lingers on :^/
How hypocrite all of these Western nations. However, when it is Arabs "terrorists", the Western media goes full throttle asking for these people's heads and showing their faces in prime time.
Look at all these Hamas apologists. This guy Mahmoud al-Mabhouh was probably up to no good in Dubai anyway. He had what was coming to him. The UAE should perhaps reconsider, probably don't want it to be known they're mediating monetary transfers from Iran to Hizbollah and other terrorist organiziations.
I was pro Israel until the attack on the USS Liberty. Subsequently I learned about all the other atrocities commited by the so called "only democracy in ME"' Israel is the cause of most of the worlds problems.
Israhell didn't cooperate with the US during the USS Liberty attack inquiry either. It's simply amazing to what political lengths the US government does to protect this bellicose, land grabbing and war mongering kittly litter sand box of a theocracy barely the size of the state of New Jersey.
It's time to assassinate BOTH Lieberman's, Israels and Connecticut's. REMEMBER THE LIBERTY!!!