Dubai Police Chief Under Pressure to Cease Mossad Investigation

The Dubai police chief quickly became a hero in his nation and the Arab world after uncovering an Israeli Mossad assassination of a Hamas official.

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The Israelis left hours after the kill so were never arrested, but all 26 of them have been publicly identified with photos and names and some of them have even had their passports identified.

Their use of fake European and Australian passports has become an embarrassment for Israel, along with use of an Austrian mobile network prepaid SIM card and the use of American credit cards. All has been meticulously documented by the Dubai authorities and much of the activities of the Israelis has been captured on camera.

The Dubai police chief has single-handedly further undermined the pseudo-image of the Mossad as an effective agency. It is anything but (but more on that later). And he noted in an interview on Arab television that intelligence work in not just camera monitoring or passport scans, but stated that he also employs human intelligence and includes Hebrew speakers on his staff.

He should be celebrated, but according to well-placed sources in the Dubai monarch; the chief of police is coming under pressure to cease with his investigation. And he even is now sounding cautious in his language as he did in his aforementioned interview:

But what is bothersome is the extent to which he views himself as subservient, politically speaking, to the Sons of Zayid and to Sheikh Mo. He was so careful in everything he said not to offend Israel. He made it sound that this was the sole deed of the head of the Mossad. He even said that the Israeli public would not approve of such methods. He repeated the lousy statement that Israeli and others should settle their scores elsewhere, i.e., Israel can kill but not under his watch. He was so afraid and careful and deliberate about everything he said about Israel, which only confirms that I was told (based on a conversation with him) regarding political pressures on him to avoid embarrassing Israel. He spoke against the killing of Israeli soldiers. All in all, this skillful and dogged police commander is a tool of a lousy corrupt royal family which would sell its children to please Israel/US. Dont make this man a hero. He is not.

This is no doubt due to American pressure on Israel's behalf placed on a client shiekh of the United States in order to cease with the humiliation of Israel. Under American logic, Israel is entitled to espionage. A few years back, the U.S. Congress actually passed a resolution expressing concern for Israeli spies captured in Iran.

The United States is working to save Israel, once again. But shame on those whom comply with American dictates.

And, now, on why the Mossad is stupid:

Botched operations

Israeli intelligence failures began very early on. In 1954, the Egyptian regime uncovered a network of Egyptian Jewish spies who were engaged in terror attacks on British and US targets in Egypt in what later came to be known as the Lavon Affair.

When the Egyptian government tried the spies in court, Israeli media claimed that Cairo had no case, was perpetrating lies and conspiracies against Tel Aviv, and fostering "anti-Semitism". This knee-jerk reaction has become an almost automatic response whenever Israeli policies are scrutinised.

But of course, the Egyptians turned out to be right; the operation was such a debacle that it led to the eventual resignation of Pinhas Lavon, the then Israeli defence minister.

The second case was that of the Israeli spy, Elie Cohen who was smuggled into Syria, where he posed as a Syrian citizen with considerable financial resources and with Arab nationalist convictions.

The case was turned into a cheap paperback novel and into two movies, at least. But the ability for a Mossad operative to successfully infiltrate the highest echelons of the Syrian regime is wildly exaggerated.

Cohen was never the high-ranking person that Israeli propaganda made him out of to be. To be sure, he did operate his house like a brothel, and invited prostitutes to entertain various Syrians, but he was not really privy to state secrets of any relevance.

The story of his relations with then president Amin Hafiz was invented by Israel and echoed by his enemies within Syria. The affair concocted by the Israelis was even mired in historical inaccuracies. The Israelis had widely disseminated the notion that Cohen had met Hafiz when he served in Syria's embassy in Argentina. But Cohen's presence in Argentina did not match the years that Hafiz spent there.

Stansfield M Turner, the head of the CIA from 1977 to 1981, perhaps said it best when he described the Mossad as a mediocre intelligence agency which excelled in public relations.

Munich

And Mossad's real achievements have been in the realm of public relations.

According to Mossad propagandist literature, one of their greatest achievements has been the pursuit and elimination of the "red prince".

The Mossad supposedly scored its biggest hits when it killed the Palestinian Black September perpetrators of the attack on Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics.

But in fact, the Mossad had no clue what Black September was all about. They assumed the group was being led by Abu Hasan Salamah - the red prince, while his role in the faction turned out to be rather minor.

Not only did the Mossad spend years in pursuing Abu Hasan but they also managed to kill an innocent Moroccan waiter in Norway in 1973, mistaking him for the Palestinian.

The Mossad agents behind that bungled assassination were captured by Norwegian police but subsequently released. Israeli agents later assassinated Wael Zuaytir, a Palestinian scholar who had nothing to do with the Black September group.

In 1979, Mossad agents assassinated Abu Hasan in what was described as a surgical kill; a massive car bomb exploded as his motorcade passed through downtown Beirut, leaving scores of Lebanese and Palestinian civilians dead and wounded.

In what would be a further intelligence failure for the Mossad, Black September's real mastermind emerged years later as Abu Dawoud, the nom du guerre of Mohammed Oudeh, a PLO commander who returned to Palestine in 1996 under the Oslo peace agreements.

In 1999, he published his memoirs and revealed that he had been the brains behind the Munich operation. He is believed to be living in Syria.

Kidnapping Nasrallah

Through film and literature, the media has romanticised the undercover world of intrigue, espionage and targeted killings and in doing so has elevated the Mossad to a station it does not deserve.

Mossad blunders are not as widely known as its invented successes, and Western governments have been more than keen to protect the image of the "formidable" Israeli spy agency.

But Israeli intelligence failures during the war on Lebanon in 2006 crippled the Mossad's image in the eyes of the Arabs

During the summer of 2006, as Israeli jets pounded Beirut, the Mossad claimed they had captured Iranian soldiers in South Lebanon. That, and the kidnapping of a poor Lebanese farmer because his name is Hassan Nasrallah, later turned out to be in error.

Arab media were left scratching their heads; could the Mossad have been so inept as to fail to distinguish that there are many Arabs who have the name Hassan Nasrallah and in doing so capture a farmer who had nothing to do with Hezbollah?

As it turned out, the Mossad had a very inaccurate picture of Hezbollah capabilities and abilities; it failed to kill one Hezbollah regional or national leader despite blustering threats.

In summation, the assassination in Dubai will only serve to convince the Arabs that Israel is not as formidable as they were led to believe. Ironically, Arab governments also helped in exaggerating the powers of the Mossad because they wanted their citizens to remain passive and inactive. But the Arabs now know better.

But in American culture, which always offers an uncritical hearing for Israeli propaganda, the myth of the terrorist Mossad will continue.