{"id":4023,"date":"2010-02-27T14:42:56","date_gmt":"2010-02-27T19:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=4023"},"modified":"2010-02-27T14:42:56","modified_gmt":"2010-02-27T19:42:56","slug":"mossad-assassins-unmasked-by-dubai-cctv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/4023\/mossad-assassins-unmasked-by-dubai-cctv\/","title":{"rendered":"Mossad Assassins Unmasked by Dubai CCTV"},"content":{"rendered":"

In case you missed it, Israel\u2019s Institute for Intelligence and Special Operations (Mossad) has been accused of carrying out an elaborate assassination of Hamas\u2019 military leader in a Dubai hotel.\u00a0 Though the hit was a success because the target was killed, ordinarily it is considered a failure if the perpetrators\u2019 identities are discovered.\u00a0 According to a former CIA agent writing in The Wall Street Journal<\/em><\/a>, the operation was executed flawlessly save for one new wrinkle that the agents apparently didn\u2019t anticipate: closed-circuit television (CCTV).<\/p>\n

I can only speculate about where exactly the hit went wrong. But I would guess the assassins failed to account for the marked advance in technology. Not only were there closed-circuit TV cameras in the hotel where Mr. Mabhouh was assassinated and at the airport, but Dubai has at its fingertips the best security consultants in the world. The consultants merely had to run advanced software through all of Dubai’s digital data before, during and after the assassination to connect the assassins in time and place.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Nearly every public space in the developed world features \u201ceyes in the sky\u201d connected to CCTV feeds monitored by either private security personnel or government agents.\u00a0 Though unpopular with citizens, governments love cameras because they increase Big Brother’s presence while reducing manpower.\u00a0 Maybe that\u2019s why Britain has more CCTV installations than China<\/a>.\u00a0 Usually, the primary justification for using CCTV is that it protects society from dangerous individuals.\u00a0 How ironic it is that the best all this surveillance can do is identify a group after<\/em> it kills an individual.\u00a0 Now, with Dubai police releasing headshots of the hit squad, it looks like as many as 26 Israeli agents will need to find a new line of work.<\/p>\n

However, Mossad shouldn\u2019t have any problem finding replacements.\u00a0 Media coverage of the assassination has touched off \u201cMossad mania\u201d<\/a> in Israel with the agency receiving record agent applications and stores selling out of its memorabilia.\u00a0 Even when technology makes caps success at a one hit wonder, there will always be plenty of people offering themselves as the next James Bond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In case you missed it, Israel\u2019s Institute for Intelligence and Special Operations (Mossad) has been accused of carrying out an elaborate assassination of Hamas\u2019 military leader in a Dubai hotel.\u00a0 Though the hit was a success because the target was killed, ordinarily it is considered a failure if the perpetrators\u2019 identities are discovered.\u00a0 According to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[908,907,652,269,906],"class_list":["post-4023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-assassination","tag-cctv","tag-dubai","tag-hamas","tag-mossad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4023"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4030,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4023\/revisions\/4030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}