To Zion an Eye Looks
By Anwaar Hussain
Way up on the shadowy ladder in the dark world of spooks comes the name of Mossad.
Responsible mainly for intelligence collection and covert operations, including paramilitary activities, it is one of the three institutions in the Israeli Intelligence Community. The other two are known as Aman and Shin Bet tasked for military intelligence and internal security respectively. Together, these three agencies are responsible for a long string of covert operations including assassinations of opponents, spying on friends and foes alike and tracking down and killing the Nazis of the yore.
On January 19, 2010, life was snuffed out of one Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in his hotel room in Dubai. Traveling without bodyguards, he was en route to Bangkok. Allegedly, Mossad was on his spoor from Damascus, tracking him finally to his hotel room in Dubai. A team of at least 27 suspects, carrying fake or fraudulently obtained passports from various nations, seven of which assumed the names of Israeli dual citizens, worked in tandem to carry out the hit. So professional was the hit that for days Mabhouh’s death was ascribed to natural causes.
According to a detailed report in The Daily Mail on Sunday, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu had personally congratulated members of the Mossad team that allegedly killed Mabhouh ahead of their departure to Dubai.
The Mossad normally conducts its tasks flawlessly. Traces of its involvement usually do not surface for years. Not this time, however. The whole exercise, though successful, started stinking to high heavens within days.
UAE, a tiny oil rich emirate in whose city Dubai the hit was carried out, broke the news of the assassination and that forged Irish, British, German, Australian and French passports were used by some of the suspects in the slaying of the Hamas commander. The UAE, an otherwise pacifist country, has bared its teeth at Israel and continues to pull layers off the ugly deed with each passing day.
Israel neither confirms nor denies the killing. Mossad chief Meir Dagan, in the meanwhile, sees no reason to resign over assassination in Dubai, and Prime Minister Netanyahu is unlikely to ask him to, according to a close associate of the Israeli spymaster. World embassies, however, continue to reverberate from the incidence.
The British Embassy in Israel says a special police investigator has been flown in to meet with the dual British-Israeli nationals whose British passports were used in the assassination. Israeli ambassador to London Ron Prosor met the head of Britain’s diplomatic service, Peter Ricketts, after being called to a meeting at the Foreign Office. Britain has publicly urged Israel to cooperate fully with its investigation into the apparent use of counterfeit British passports by suspected Israeli assassins.
Ireland followed Britain in summoning its Israeli ambassador to explain how passport details of three Irish citizens were used by an Israeli group of suspected assassins. French Prime Minister Francois Fillon has condemned the assassination of Mabhouh and called for the truth about the killing to be established.
The suspected 27-person hit team also includes three individuals using allegedly fake Australian passports sparking an outrage among Australians. The Israeli ambassador to Australia was promptly sent for and reportedly warned that the Australian government expects Israel’s full cooperation in the investigation. The Australian Foreign Minister Stephen Smith was quoted saying by The Australian newspaper, “I made it crystal clear to the [Israeli ambassador] that if the results of that investigation cause us to come to the conclusion that the abuse of Australian passports was in any way sponsored or condoned by Israeli officials, then Australia would not regard that as the act of a friend.”
The Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd went a notch higher according to the local news media. He warned, “We will not be silent on this matter…..Any state that has been complicit in use or abuse of the Australian passport system, let alone for the conduct of an assassination, is treating Australia with contempt, and there will therefore be action by the Australian government in response.”
With the assured backing of its time tested patron, the United States of America that shoots down UN resolutions even on bad wording for its protégé and for the moment stands silently by, whether or not Israel will heed these warnings is anybody’s guess. According to an officially acknowledged list, despite similar warnings in the past, Mossad’s list of accomplished assassinations is rather long. Here are just a few prominent names on that list;
Abdel Wael Zwaiter, a Libyan embassy employee and a PLO representative was killed in Rome on Oct 16, 1972. Ghassan Kanafani a Palestinian writer was killed in Beirut that same year. Wadie Haddad, a PFLP (Polpular Front for Liberation of Israel) commander, was killed in Germany in 1978. Ali Hassan Salameh, a high-ranked PLO leader, was killed in 1979 by a car bomb in Beirut. Zuheir Mohsen, leader of the pro-Syria faction of the PLO, was shot in front of a casino in Cannes in 1979. Yehia El-Mashad , an Egyptian nuclear scientist, was killed by Mossad agents in his room at the Méridien Hotel in Paris in 1980. Mamoun Meraish, a senior PLO official, was shot in his car by Mossad agents from their motorcycle in Athens in 1983. Atef Bseiso, a Palestinian official, was shot several times in the head at point blank range by two Mossad gunmen in his hotel room in Paris in 1992.
Hatikva, Israel’s national anthem, inspires millions of Jewish people the world over. Its first four lines read;
As long as deep in the heart,
The soul of a Jew yearns,
And forward to the East
To Zion, an eye looks
Many eyes, some dead some still alive, now look to Zion and its patron to explain how one country can act as an international thug, take another people’s land, kill them when they struggle to get a piece of it back, stop at virtually nothing, and, this time, draw five other countries into the bloody games of espionage that it plays and gets not a rap on the knuckles where a sledge hammer is long due.
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What are similarities between Israel and Pakistan?
March 3rd, 2010 at 1:56 pmI was expecting something from you on this topic, it would have been wonderful if you could analyzed the roll of other affected countries agencies that how fairly they will react and conclude this case. I highly regard UAE police skills and professionalism, and also UAE leadership who has taken such bold step and made all the undeniable details public within such a short time frame, this is now a real test of world security agencies who pose themselves the best, that how much progress they can make to conclude this case, if they fail that will leave a numerous and serious questions on their trustfulness and integrity perhaps it will also unveils the double standards of the western world, the long standing allegation from the Muslim’s world.
Is it not good chance for the western world to gain Muslim’s Trust?
March 3rd, 2010 at 2:42 pmThe term assassination has overtones of an acceptable killing for national advantage.
Why not call it what it is a Conspiracy to MURDER.
A country is considered civilised when it embraces the concept of LAW and JUSTICE. There is neither law nor justice when killing proceeds without accusation and then no trial takes place. How many times have similar acts occurred without discovery?
No country is entirely clean, but Israel, so often, makes Nazi Germany seem, at times, comparatively benign. They learned their Fascist lessons well.
March 3rd, 2010 at 2:47 pmAnwaar, once again a good writing!!
March 3rd, 2010 at 5:58 pmHistorically, it seems Jewish stratagem to intrigue & work underhand. They killed anyone & every one considered a threat to greater Zionist ambition. Even Jesus was not spared & Prophet Mohammad was targeted too. So, do we expect any other behaviour from them? It’s high time the United States of America uncover the devil resting in her sleeve. Your expose will surely contribute. Thank you.
Anwaar,
Last night I watched the film “Munich” for the second time. There is an interesting scene where a safe house is inhabited by members of intelligence teams of two different nations. It ends badly, for one team.
President Gerald Ford issued a ban on assassination of heads of state. This link, is a policy summary.
http://www.fas.org/irp/crs/RS21037.pdf
In a world where the more powerful nations engage treaty, MOA, joint security, etc. and the smaller cobbled alliances (Central and South America comes to mind) collide with the greater mass, there will occasionally be hell to pay. This is just one such time.
Tammy Swofford
March 3rd, 2010 at 6:00 pmReligious beliefs are behind most conflicts in the Middle East. Israel’s existence owes itself to the Old Testament wherein it is written that Jahweh promised the land west of the River Jordan to Moses for the Jews as a homeland.
This is why many Christian nations in the UN voted for the formation of the Jewish state in 1948, as they were familiar with the Bible.
The Jews have arrived in droves from all over the world and are displacing Muslim residents, whose families have lived in Palestine for generations. The Muslims, on the other hand, cite the Quran to justify their antipathy towards the Jews.
The USA’s role in supporting Israel is just as misguided. Despite Obama’s “fresh” look, little has changed or will change in the US policy.
Abraham heard voices, Moses spoke to Jahweh thinking God was a light in the bush !!
Our problems will continue until we recognize all these Prophets suffered from illusions, delusions and hallucinations. They saw angels and demons and had conversations with them.
Religious texts are nothing but a compendium of mental health issues through the ages. It is time we recognized them for what they are.
March 3rd, 2010 at 6:33 pmIf we could come to creating a commission for writing history of mankind in which several columns are presented on two adjacent sides of the book and several views of history are kept parallel before the readers. Jewish, arab, muslim, hindu, christian, atheist, communist etc. are various (here just 7) standpoints to look at history. Unless children are taught to learn from the past that all our ancestors wre fallible men (and women) and there is no one-sided heroism or villainy anywhere.
But some ideologies are presenting children with history narrations with the purpose of increasing hate and conquest and misusing the children as cannon-fodder.
March 3rd, 2010 at 9:56 pmTo the indian comment – vishwas
“What are similarities between Israel and Pakistan?”
None – but ideologically, they are both a state made in the name of religion. Israel neve existed pre 1947. And neither did Pakistan.
Since you dragged Pakistan, let me answer you back, by saying that the hindus never have, & never will accept us as a state. Reasons, can be seen by opening up history books & reading the aggression indians have used to attack us two times in 1965 & 1971, thereby seperating East Pakistan from us. To this day, you are mingling with our internal affairs with your dirty hands – RAW. Balochistan – does it ring a bell…???
Then again, you are a hindu too, if you come to terms that there is a country Pakistan next to you, & Kashmir is THE CORE ISSUE. We can progress forward, else there will be another war. And it is on the cards, everybody knows it will happen. But WHEN is the big question.
March 3rd, 2010 at 10:29 pmAnwaar – Munich was a movie made by an American Jew, to show the revenge the Israelis took on the Palestinians. Watch the scene where they prevent the bomb from exploding when the child comes back from the car…Do you think Jews show mercy on children in Palestine…???
The Jews are & will always be full of hatred against Muslims, Arabs in particular. Nothing can be changed, it is in their blood. And sad thing is that no Muslim leader in this world is ready to shout or attack back. Just watch in slumber.
If you want a better insight on Jews, read David Duke’s blog…visit his web page http://www.davidduke.com. He is a redneck Jew, who hates brown skin, but he loves his country – USA. He has mentioned in his blog – that the murder of 99 Muslims by a faith in the Jewish community is akin to a trip to heavens….!!!
March 3rd, 2010 at 10:35 pmYou left out Dr. Gerald Bull who was shot in Amsterdam while working on the Iraqi supergun. When they shoot people they don’t care who knows. There are many that die that we never hear about. I think from this we can see that identification and credit security internationally is terrible.
March 4th, 2010 at 4:46 amUAE keeps up its pressure on Israel.
Read here in full.
March 4th, 2010 at 9:06 amThere is more than a little evidence of Mossad involvement in the 9-11 attacks on NYC and DC, with 6 Mossad agents picked up by police in New Jersey who were celebrating after watching the first plane hit the WTC.
These men were later released that same day and flown out of the US directly to Israel. These men were in place with cameras before the attack started, and except for an old woman in a nearby apartment building noticing them and calling the police, who then picked them up, would have been out of the country without notice.
If the US Government would allow Israel to be part of this conspiracy along with it’s own involvement, how can we believe the US Government will ever allow anything be done to Israel in the UN, or in any other forum?
Many Christians in the USA are so blind in their support of Israel that this information, or the fact that many of those persecuted by Israel in the Middle East are fellow Christians, will not shake them from their blind support of “God’s Holy Nation”, even as we send our children to die for the sake of a lie. The lie of course is that the modern Israel has any connection whatsoever to the original nation of Israel.
March 4th, 2010 at 9:44 amTo Naumann
History comes in many versions. Pakistanis and muslims have their own distorted or truncated or self-glorifying and self-justifying view of history like the hindus and others have.
That is why I suggested that we should write history books collectively so that each one comes to know the others’ distortions.
Hindus know that islam was created in arab lands and hence in the indian subcontinent it is a 100% alien arab-imperialist ideology. Because of its monotheism, it is also a totalitarian and closed-minded ideology.
imagine a hindu determining politics, boundaries, faith, culture, language, script, laws etc. in Arab lands. Will the arabs allow that? Similarly a hindu is right when he rejects any such interfering determinations in the indian subcontinent [isc] by a follower or glorifier of islamic-arabic imperialism and totalitarianism.
We did not like british imperialists ruling over us, then why should we be accepting islamic or arabic or turkish imperialists and their agents and quislings ruling over us?
islam is neither a bengali nor a kashmiri ideology – hence right to self-determination in Bengal or kashmir is possible only if this alien islamic factor is reduced to zero. islam has every right to [try to] determine arab life in arabia, if arabs wish for it. But it has no right to determine anything in the lands outside of arabia, certainly not in the indian subcontinent. That is real self-respect which pakistani are not realizing because of their islamic indoctrination.
Today’s israel stole land from palestinians – today’s Pakistan stole land from hindus. The hindu population in the Sindhu river basin fell from 25% to 2% in August-Sept 1947 after Pakistan was created. think of these similarities. And there are many more. Monotheistic west-asiatic religions have an ingrained totalitarianism and fascism and land-grabbing imperialism in them. Judaism, christianity and islam have shown and proved this clearly.
Pakistanis are the real hindus [=inhabitants of the Sindhu river basin], but islam has taught them to hate hindus and everything hindu by injecting a truncated and manipulated view of history in their minds. Violence was introduced in the Kashmir dispute by Pakistan in Sept. 1947 and again and again later through jihadi elements. These are facts which even pakistanis [the honest among the pakistanis] admit today.
March 4th, 2010 at 1:54 pm[...] By Anwaar Hussain of Truth Spring [...]
March 4th, 2010 at 7:43 pm“In the 1970′s, he joined the Muslim Brotherhood, and in the 1980′s, he was reported to have been involved in sabotaging coffee shops where gambling was taking place.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahmoud_al-Mabhouh
How difficult it must be to decry fanaticism in one instance and tacitly approve of it with silence in the next.
Mahmoud, whose death has brought Egyptian and Jordanian operations under scrutiny as well as those of Israel, seems to have acted as a linchpin between those who wish to blow themselves up (and take all the others they can with them) and Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, of whom hundreds of thousands of Iranians seem to have tired.
One may wonder which Islam finds favor here.
March 4th, 2010 at 7:53 pmHmmmm!
If I was sure what Oppenheim is saying, it would have been easier to respond to. In the absence of that I can only guess the following;
a. He has confused the whole point of the article. He has missed that the scribe is highlighting the super power approved international thuggery of one nation. And that this article is not about religious fanaticism per se.
b. Oppenheim has not confused the argument in the article but sincerely feels that highlighting the criminal offenses of a rogue nation is tantamount to giving tacit approval to religious fanaticism. And that this must not be done.
c. Oppenheim supports such murders by states and would not mind if the spooks of Iraq, North Korea and Iran–the ‘axis of evil’ countries–got together with those from Afghanistan and Libya and dispatched one or some of his previous presidents to kingdom come. These states, after all, have enough grudge to justify the act.
Now which one of the above is true? Perhaps Oppenheim would come back to explain or maybe someone else would take up the cudgels on his/her behalf.
Waiting………
March 5th, 2010 at 6:51 amWell, it seems to me that many people are so single minded that they have lost the ability to dispute honestly and openly, subjects of great import to all the people of the Earth. The issue here isn’t about the merits of individual religions, it is about nation states abusing the rules of international law, and aided by super powers that are acting based on their economic and military objectives. That this has always been the case doesn’t matter, what matters is caring people from all nations and beliefs unite in self interest of peace, prosperity and hope of a better world for our offspring. If we as enlightened and educated members of our various societies cannot do this thing, how can we expect the average man and woman of this world make the right choices that can lead to peace and hope.
Honestly, what is the importance of kashmir between Pakistan and India, compared to the people who live there wishing to live life in peace. On the other hand Israel is not fighting in disputed territories, but rather is attempting to destabilize all of her neighbors, allowing her to continue to carve out pieces of other peoples lands, this is a great difference, and a great evil, which will ultimately end in global war, something no sane person wants.
Please I ask lay down your religious beliefs and your desire to strike at those you perceive as your enemies and discuss how we the people of the world may save it and all of us who live on it from a coming hell on Earth should the war wanted by mad men come upon us all and wipe us all away. We common people have been manipulated by powerful and evil men, few in number but ubiquitous to all nations, to do their bidding to our own detriments, and our loved ones futures.
March 5th, 2010 at 8:57 amAnwaar, I think that it would be interesting to find out how many people here think assassination is a valid instrument of nations to procure change in their interest, and if so who are legitimate targets, and if not, what should be done to the leaders of nations who pursue this course.
March 5th, 2010 at 9:09 amJon, that was precisely my intention when I surmised my guesses in my post above. Just waiting for Oppenheim, or someone else on his behalf, to get the ball rolling. I meant no disrespect to him/her.
March 5th, 2010 at 9:15 amI know you meant no disrespect Anwaar, and I understood your purpose, I guess I am just very direct in my statements, which is why I have never considered politics or diplomacy as potential fields for a career, LOL! I admire your diplomatic and gentle yet firm and precise writings, something my anger would cause me to fail at should I try!
Now saying this, I hope that this subject will be enjoined by other posters/readers and we might get a chance to understand differing points of view, for I have been wrong before, and don’t mind someone educating me to a truth I may have missed or not considered in enough depth!
I myself believe that a nation is only as good as it’s legal protections to those who have not been tried, but only accused, anything beyond this is lynching, amoral, and brutish! I do believe leaders should be held responsible for their actions but legally, both by native and international laws. It is the easy way to murder those we may fear or hate, but just when does the murder stop, and are the families of these people also targets to get at the person? This as Gandhi said “an eye for an eye will just leave the whole world blind” has no end, until the last man is left standing alone!
March 5th, 2010 at 10:41 amAnwaar, Oppenheim will not come back as he seems to have realized that he missed the point totally while reading your article or commented after reading the title only.
Here I want to discuss comment number 13 by G. Vishvas. He asserts, “Today’s israel stole land from palestinians – today’s Pakistan stole land from hindus.”
When he chooses to trace history, why does he stop before present Hindus displaced and STOLE land of local inhabitants? Why does he not consider present America which was carved out of blood; bones of original so called Indians? Why does he not consider present Australia which sits on carcasses of “Aboriginals”?
He is closed minded person who has jaundice eye affecting his vision so he sees all saffron!!!
March 6th, 2010 at 7:28 amTo Masroor ul Hasan (of comment 21)
Hindu = one who lives in the Sindhu river basin.
That is the real original definition of the word hindu as used by iranians (zoroastrians, before they were invaded and exterminated by arab muslims). This word is found in Iran before Alexander’s times. That time the word had a neutral geographic-ethnic meaning. The greeks changed it to Indos (plural Indoi)since they could not pronounce h or u (u became o). The iranians could not pronounce the initial s and made it into an h. (Sindhu – hindu)
After islam came to Iran the word hindu acquired a denigrative meaning – a word to insult and humiliate the hindus. This shows the result of islam and the mentality that its produces among its non-arab quislings.
Hence Hindus cannot steal land from those who live in the Sindhu river basin. The very definition of the word “hindu” is like that.
Hindu religions are many and are a result of many external and internal influences (aryan, dravidian, pre-dravidian, post-aryan, european etc. etc.) Their development is going on – they are not finalized and fossilized like islam. Hence in the ISC (Indian Subcontinent – a word which pakistanis fear and hate) islam is 100% alien whereas hindu religions are 100% indigenous.
Aryans may have stolen land from dravidians (a theory propagated by the british, but also doubted by many) – but today hindus are both aryans and dravidians, and they both are hindus. In fact dravidians are more faithful and believing hindus than aryans. The dravidian component in hindu religions is more than the aryan one.
Pakistanis are the real hindus, but islam has taught them to hate and humiliate hindus and everything hindu. Islam is teaching pakistanis to become mental servants and slaves of arab imperialism and arab hegemony and racism. Take a look at the teaching material used in pakistani schools to confirm this.
Regarding USA stealing land from “indians” or white Australians from the aborigines – these are topics which need not be discussed in a pakistani forum, especially when the intention is to relativize the stealing and snatching done by agents and quislings of islam in the ISC. Let the others bother about the thefts that have taken place in or of their lands – but in the indian subcontinent (ISC) we have to first bother about what has happened in the ISC, about a falsified islam-glorifying history that is being taught to Pakistani children who are descendants (largely) of hindus and are being taught to humiliate and vilfy their own hindu ancestors in order to please the arabs and turks. (just look up the article “No Tombstone for the Hero?” on this very site)
Islam teaches a muslim that he must glorify and justify islam at all costs and hence muslim history-writing is not objective and honest. The purpose of muslim history-writing is to glorify islam, muslim arabs and the muslim conquests and humiliate the non-arabs and non-muslims and dismiss their pains, narratives and claims. Muslim propagandists have eagerly taken up the theory that hindu=aryan and hinduism came to India from outside through an aryan invasion. This theory is much taught in Pakistan although it is totally untrue and illogical. Aryans came to ISC as immigrants (not always violent or as robbers) and mixed up with the dravidian populations and created many hindu religions and sects. The dravidians too came as immigrants earlier and mixed up with the previous pre-dravidian populations. But pakistanis/muslims have created their own lies in this regard for pro-islamic propaganda purposes. No one in Pakistan questions (or dares to question) these lies.
If you cannot discuss the above analyses and opinions openly and publicly in Pakistan then you have a clear proof on the hand that islam has caused Pakistan to become a closed-minded totalitarian society wherein honesty and freedom of expression are restricted only to praising islam and muslims.
Freedom of expression makes sense only if the ruling ideology can be criticized publicly and safely. And in Pakistan the ruling ideology is islam.
March 6th, 2010 at 2:14 pmRe: “Oppenheim will not come back as….” is based on presumption. I know Oppenheim. Busy individual, and as such a blog comment may never convert into a thread of thought.
Regarding the prior post – freedom of expression – the United States is an incredibly open society in this particular regard. These freedoms have been earned the hard way – moving through the courts, at times slowly, but finally with issues resolved with remarkable clarity.
In Cantwell v Connecticut (1940) Justice Owen Roberts penned remarkable words:
“In the realm of religious faith, and that of political belief, sharp differences arise. In both fields the tenets of one man may seem the rankest error to his neighbor. To persuade others of his own point of view, the pleader, as we know, at times resorts to exaggeration, to vilification of men who have been, or are, prominent in church or state, and even to false statement. But the people of this nation have ordained in the light of history that, in spite of the probability of excesses and abuses, these liberties are, in the long view, essential to enlightened opinion and right conduct on the part of the citizens of a democracy.”
Cantwell v Connecticut was a reversal of a conviction against a minister of the Jehovah’s Witness faith who denounced the Catholic church. The court upheld his right to speak against a different religious persuasion.
As an individual, I am completely opposed to any sort of change to our penal code which would allow “hate crime” penalties for speaking against Islam, which would reduce us to anti-blasphemy laws, contrary to our American traditions. In America we allow tremendous latitude for expressive freedom. My guess is if I wave a Bible in front of Lal Masjid I will be beaten senseless. In America, the Qur’an may be waved in front of a church with little second thought. May we all gain a bit of common sense and sweep out the dark corners of our minds.
Didn’t mean to move off on a sidewinder here, Anwaar. But just wishing to tag-team on freedom of expression.
And for the next person: “Tag! You’re it!” smile
Tammy Swofford
March 7th, 2010 at 6:15 amAnwaar — I have kept the Sabbath, that is all.
Efforts to delegitimize and demonize Israel have been generally so passionate as to prove little more than presumptuous.
As with the altogether dismissible Goldstone report, this now out of Dubai may and probably will melt into confusion.
Such as Mahmoud al-Mabhouh make enemies, so much so they become fugitive for some(before his murder, al-Mabhouh had in pursuit the states of Egypt and Jordan as well as Israel) and for untrustworthy others candidates for false flag operations.
In this now muddled affair, two Palestinians, Ahmad Hasnin and Anwar Shekhaiber, have been dragged behind Israel for allegedly providing logistical support for the murder while the most strident of accusing voices remains that of Hamas, and in the arena of extrajudicial killing, Hamas has done so much so well for so long in Gaza as to have no credible rivals for the practice in the region.
This source is Israeli: http://www.btselem.org/english/statistics/casualties_data.asp?Category=25®ion=TER ,
This one is Palestinian: http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=208221
Search string applied: “Gaza Hamas extrajudicial killing”.
Last month, the BBC noted, “The Jerusalem Post reported suspicions voiced across the region that the Palestinian Authority, run by Hamas’s rival organisation Fatah, might have had a hand in the attack” before going on to indulge its own penchant for a good spook story:
“All this leads to another question: Does the hit team’s detailed knowledge of his itinerary, the lack of bodyguards and the possibility he was comfortable travelling on his own identity, paint a scenario where Mr Mabhouh was served up to his assassins in Dubai by people he trusted?”
Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8521942.stm
Let’s talk about this rhetoric ” . . . super power approved international thuggery of one nation.”
Honestly, I don’t know how Iran gets away with what it does to its own people and with its meddling in the region.
One might hope a “superpower” would intervene, but none has yet, at least not visibly.
Of course, away from the ambitiously hijacked old Persia, admissions of culpability on the Arab Muslim side of the familiar bickering seldom surface.
Should we now “Google” Abdel Wael Zwaiter, Ghassan Kanafani, Wadie Haddad, et al., we may find, at least online, the same ambiguous notes–and notes of ambiguous notes–while something like the truth continues to reside in investigator notes, court records, and in unpublished jottings by journalists, all of which do no one much good kept dark. Until we have peace enough to bring to light state secrets all around, we may speculate endlessly on behalf of one agenda or another.
On this web page, ” . . . approved international thuggery of one nation” says more about rhetoric than it does factual reality, and in doing so, it leaves out the better part of the story, which here would seem to revolve around the perception of al-Mabhouh’s threat to regional security, not merely that of Israel alone, and detection of the social engineering and reach of the Islamic Revolution in Iran.
We may move on to ” . . . highlighting the criminal offense of a rogue nation . . . .” another passionate condemnation having for its basis the sound of itself.
Egypt, Jordan, and Israel, among others, have each the obligation of securing their own citizen’s defense, and a man who, allegedly but perhaps less allegedly and more truly than others, trades in arms to promote the viability of war in the region draws their attention.
As mentioned, al-Mabhouh was a pursued man, and that not by Israel alone.
As regards the statement on the “Axis of Evil” states–Iraq, North Korea, Iran–Iraquis of late have braved polls threatened by other than Americans (or Egyptians, Jordanians, Israelis, Danish cartoonists, etc.) while Iranians, quite familiar with the ways of their regime, its record of serial murders, and the suppression of public protest, have been fighting gamely for a less medieval and ungodly governance (reference, any given day: http://www.iranhumanrights.org/).
North Korea, way outside Islam and distinctly idolatrous as regards its leadership, would seem the odd rogue out here for having for its threat profile the will of a mere family, an army, and its head, Kim Jong II, a 68-year-old figure who has most recently sought “bear gall bladder, rhinoceros horn and musk” for what ails him, all healthy alternatives, so anyone sane may suppose, to the pleasures taken by the dictator in the contemplated launching of nukes against the south. (Reference quoted for the remedies: http://www.chinapost.com.tw/asia/korea/2010/02/16/244952/Questions-about.htm).
March 8th, 2010 at 3:04 amJames,
I believe it is really gall bladder bile, which is sought for health. When in Mongolia, our team saw a bear in a cage with a bile tube draining bile for medicinal purposes. And yes, to the rhino tusk. At an area hospital, the pharmacist was busy grinding up a tusk as a homeopathic Rx. for arthritis. There is actually a more appropriate use for the rhino tusk, when considering healthy solutions for North Korea. smile
Tammy Swofford
March 14th, 2010 at 4:33 pmHey Anwaar,
Good to see your beautiful website, and your pen striking well on and on. I wish you good health and all the best.
As things are coming out more and more regarding the nature of the beast I hope you start to understand me better now… As we know this is only a drop in an ocean of THE evil.
All ok on my front here.
Have a beautiful day,
best,
Sam
May 10th, 2010 at 6:02 amHello Sam,
This site is, and always will be, as much yours as mine. Welcome back my friend. Glad to know all is well.
Like I always maintained, we must stick by the truth and nothing but the truth. In that lies the only salvation.
The beast hiding in whatever religion, nationality, creed, dogma or ideology has to be exposed. I hope you too understand me better now Sam.
Read it here.
Regards,
Anwaar
May 10th, 2010 at 6:09 amIslam was a religion made by a man who wanted some recognition. It was a good copy in the end with flaws of the Jewish religion and deep down both Muslims and Jews know this fact. The Jews claim Israel and are insecure on being surrounded by Muslims by all area that’s the reason they wish and try to destabilize their neighbors. It might and probably will create wars but its one of the few options they are left with.
May 6th, 2011 at 9:41 pmAnd plz read comment no 22 by G.Vishvas
May 6th, 2011 at 9:45 pmIslam in Indian sub continent has spread like poison when a snake bites an unsuspecting farmer in his farm. The British took Indian money and gold the Muslims took Indian people, well done cobra