Video: The assassination of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh

by David Ucko on 17 February 2010 · 5 comments

I am sure many KoW readers also read Abu Muqawama, but let me nonetheless draw your attention to the video linked there this morning, a compilation of CCTV and security-camera footage from the murder of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh.

The video reminds me of something from Spooks, or, like AM says, Munich, but here it is of course real.

Ps. I wonder what was said to the female hotel employee at 10:57 to prompt that reaction… some light flirtation in the middle of the wetwork?

[H/T Abu Muqawama]

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19 February 2010 at 23:24

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Formerly Grant 17 February 2010 at 13:41

I presume that at least some of the footage is still being held back for various reasons. On the matter of the calls I have to wonder, why Austria? Do privacy laws there make communications easier?

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Eamonn 17 February 2010 at 14:25

the Mahmoud al-Mabhouh link is a dud

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David Ucko 17 February 2010 at 14:34

Thanks Eamonn – now fixed.

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John Paul Vann 19 February 2010 at 23:35

“This is a political war and it calls for discrimination in killing. The best weapon for killing would be a knife, but I’m afraid we can’t do it that way. The worst is an airplane. The next worse is artillery. Barring a knife, the best is a rifle — you know who you’re killing.”

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