Hamas Official Assassinated in Dubai

Anyone else following this story?

It's pretty wild: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/international/wigs_disguises_as_assassins_stalk_D0uqAMfR2xtJA4HGJaUb8J

 

Saw that this morning. Fascinating.

 

Good stuff. This is more the way I envisioned the WAR ON TERROR! to play out. I'm OK with the CIA drones in Pakistan, too.

 

That's kind of what I was thinking. Would we have been more effective taking out specific targets with specialists vs. taking out broad targets and searching for the specifics with an all-out occupation?

 

The Israelis re experts at this. And they won't quit until they get their man, even if it takes years.

I'd like to see a Michael Corleone approach. Assassinate all of your enemies on one day.

 

Absolutely. I always figured this would be a CIA "war" -- tracking down the bad guys across international borders with small undercover teams. Of course, maybe i watch too many movies.

 

He doesn't?

 

I think that is what's so interesting too. If we didn't have any details, there wouldn't be much to talk about or speculate about.

I've got to think Israel didn't much mind that everyone knows they were behind it. The risks were probably worth it to them, and in some way works in their favor.

Everyone knows they did, but they'll deny it. In the mean time, the bad guys have to be worried. If they're willing to be that brazen, any one of them could be next.

I was also particularly intrigued by the method of killing -- strangulation. No need to smuggle in weapons. It's also got to take a much more dedicated assassin/group of assassins I would think. There's something less personal about shooting or poisoning someone. (I'm guessing.) This is hands on -- literally.

 

Nor do I. Way too simplistic given the history. My "bad guys" reference was an observation about how the broader "War on Terror" should be unfolding rather than the Dick Cheney/Don Rumsfeld model of sending in hundreds of thousands troops in to occupy countries.