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Dubai police now say that Hamas murdered al-Mabhouh
Friday, February 26, 2010 | Comments: 18
Last week it was Mossad.
But now, in an incredible investigation volte-face, Dubai’s chief of police, Lt. Gen. Dhahi Khalfan Tamim, claims that an associate of al-Mabhouh, a high-ranking military leader, leaked information about the Hamas leader’s visit to Dubai and actually goes as far as to refer to the associate as "the real murderer."
On Sunday, Dhaki Khalfan Tamim, Chief Inspector of the Dubai desert, called on Hamas leader Mahmoud al-Zahar to launch an "internal investigation" into the murder.
"This is a serious breach of Hamas’ security, something which the organization hitherto had prided itself on. It shows that Israeli intelligence has managed to penetrate the inner circles of the group," said Samir Awad, from Birzeit University.
The collective Hamas leadership has gone into damage control. Various sources refused to talk or even answer their phones.
Mahmoud Ramahi, a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) in Ramallah who was imprisoned for three years by the Israelis for Hamas membership refused to comment.
"You will have to speak to Hamas in Gaza about this. I can only speak as a member of the PLC," Ramahi said
Ahmed Yousef, a close associate of Gaza’s Hamas leader, Ismail Haniyeh, and former foreign adviser to Gaza’s Hamas leadership, refused to comment as well.
"No, I’m not interested in talking about the Dubai assassination. Surely you can find somebody else to talk to?" Yousef asked without giving an explanation behind his refusal.
Another Hamas spokesman in Gaza, Sami Abu Zahuri, denied foreign media reports that Hamas member Nahro Massoud has been arrested in Damascus by Dubai authorities, a denial supported by Hamas politburo chief-in-exile in Damascus Khaled Meshaal.
"This is indeed a big blow to Hamas’ invincibility," said Prof. Moshe Ma’oz of Jerusalem’s Hebrew University.
Israel has found it fairly easy to bribe members within the Palestinian Authority (PA) due to the nepotism and corruption which pervade the organization
"There are various methods Israeli intelligence uses to establish agents and get close to the Palestinian leadership in both political factions.
"This includes using drugs, women, financial bribery, and emotional and political blackmail. This just goes to show that Hamas is human and has its weaknesses which too can be exploited," added Ma’oz.
But now, in an incredible investigation volte-face, Dubai’s chief of police, Lt. Gen. Dhahi Khalfan Tamim, claims that an associate of al-Mabhouh, a high-ranking military leader, leaked information about the Hamas leader’s visit to Dubai and actually goes as far as to refer to the associate as "the real murderer."
On Sunday, Dhaki Khalfan Tamim, Chief Inspector of the Dubai desert, called on Hamas leader Mahmoud al-Zahar to launch an "internal investigation" into the murder.
"This is a serious breach of Hamas’ security, something which the organization hitherto had prided itself on. It shows that Israeli intelligence has managed to penetrate the inner circles of the group," said Samir Awad, from Birzeit University.
The collective Hamas leadership has gone into damage control. Various sources refused to talk or even answer their phones.
Mahmoud Ramahi, a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) in Ramallah who was imprisoned for three years by the Israelis for Hamas membership refused to comment.
"You will have to speak to Hamas in Gaza about this. I can only speak as a member of the PLC," Ramahi said
Ahmed Yousef, a close associate of Gaza’s Hamas leader, Ismail Haniyeh, and former foreign adviser to Gaza’s Hamas leadership, refused to comment as well.
"No, I’m not interested in talking about the Dubai assassination. Surely you can find somebody else to talk to?" Yousef asked without giving an explanation behind his refusal.
Another Hamas spokesman in Gaza, Sami Abu Zahuri, denied foreign media reports that Hamas member Nahro Massoud has been arrested in Damascus by Dubai authorities, a denial supported by Hamas politburo chief-in-exile in Damascus Khaled Meshaal.
"This is indeed a big blow to Hamas’ invincibility," said Prof. Moshe Ma’oz of Jerusalem’s Hebrew University.
Israel has found it fairly easy to bribe members within the Palestinian Authority (PA) due to the nepotism and corruption which pervade the organization
"There are various methods Israeli intelligence uses to establish agents and get close to the Palestinian leadership in both political factions.
"This includes using drugs, women, financial bribery, and emotional and political blackmail. This just goes to show that Hamas is human and has its weaknesses which too can be exploited," added Ma’oz.
1455 Bernie Madoff
[ Friday, February 26, 2010 | 12:50:22 PM ]
Opium and tinctures of the drug were readily available and inexpensive and, as one writer to The Daily News of 23 June 1879, commented, he was astonished at the widespread use of opium to keep children from getting cross. He went on to point to the "infinite detriment" to children of the extensive use of "opium, soothing syrups, and other baneful cordials ... by large masses of the mothers among our labouring population."
1454 Bernie Madoff
[ Friday, February 26, 2010 | 12:44:26 PM ]
One of the best known scenes involving the taking of recreational drugs is found in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's tale, The Sign of the Four.
Sherlock Holmes took his bottle from the corner of the mantel-piece and his hypodermic syringe from its neat morocco case. With his long, white, nervous fingers he adjusted the delicate needle, and rolled back his left shirt-cuff. For some little time his eyes rested thoughtfully upon the sinewy forearm and wrist all dotted and scarred with innumerable puncture-marks. Finally he thrust the sharp point home, pressed down the tiny piston, and sank back into the velvet-lined arm-chair with a long sigh of satisfaction.
Sherlock Holmes took his bottle from the corner of the mantel-piece and his hypodermic syringe from its neat morocco case. With his long, white, nervous fingers he adjusted the delicate needle, and rolled back his left shirt-cuff. For some little time his eyes rested thoughtfully upon the sinewy forearm and wrist all dotted and scarred with innumerable puncture-marks. Finally he thrust the sharp point home, pressed down the tiny piston, and sank back into the velvet-lined arm-chair with a long sigh of satisfaction.
1453 Lyndall Beddy
[ Friday, February 26, 2010 | 12:38:19 PM ]
Traps and Bongo,
Captain Renette Barnard has won her case and the Labour Court has ordered that:
1. SAPS promote her to Superindendent, and
2. SAPS pay her costs
AND Jimmy Manyi is having a fit, and is drafting changes to the Employment Equity Law, and calling for Quislings from white companies - looking for Lord Haw Haws.
Jimmy Manyi would have to change the constitution.
Captain Renette Barnard has won her case and the Labour Court has ordered that:
1. SAPS promote her to Superindendent, and
2. SAPS pay her costs
AND Jimmy Manyi is having a fit, and is drafting changes to the Employment Equity Law, and calling for Quislings from white companies - looking for Lord Haw Haws.
Jimmy Manyi would have to change the constitution.
1452 Lyndall Beddy
[ Friday, February 26, 2010 | 12:34:06 PM ]
Bernie
Sorry - "witches"
Sorry - "witches"
1451 Lyndall Beddy
[ Friday, February 26, 2010 | 12:31:37 PM ]
Bernie
The "eitches" recommended herbs - and were scorned by the doctors.
The "eitches" recommended herbs - and were scorned by the doctors.
1450 Lyndall Beddy
[ Friday, February 26, 2010 | 12:30:33 PM ]
Bernie
It was a medicine and relaxant then - not regarded as a drug. All the Lake Poets used it as well. And morphine was in all the ordinary medicines like the cough syrups they gave to children.
It was a medicine and relaxant then - not regarded as a drug. All the Lake Poets used it as well. And morphine was in all the ordinary medicines like the cough syrups they gave to children.
1449 Bernie Madoff
[ Friday, February 26, 2010 | 11:57:25 AM ]
Lyndall...
He raised his eyes languidly from the old black-letter volume which he had opened. "It is cocaine," he said, -- "a seven-percent solution. Would you care to try it?"
Sherlock Holmes, in "The Sign of the Four"
He raised his eyes languidly from the old black-letter volume which he had opened. "It is cocaine," he said, -- "a seven-percent solution. Would you care to try it?"
Sherlock Holmes, in "The Sign of the Four"
1447 Lyndall Beddy
[ Friday, February 26, 2010 | 11:47:09 AM ]
Bernie
What about the importance of what is NOT there - both Agatha Christie and Sherlock Holmes used that one - the dog that did NOT bark?
Like the Zimbabwe policy that did NOT change?
What about the importance of what is NOT there - both Agatha Christie and Sherlock Holmes used that one - the dog that did NOT bark?
Like the Zimbabwe policy that did NOT change?
1443 Bernie Madoff
[ Friday, February 26, 2010 | 9:47:16 AM ]
"Exactly, Watson. Pathetic and futile. But is not all life pathetic and futile? Is not his story a microcosm of the whole? We reach. We grasp. And what is left in our hands at the end? A shadow. Or worse than a shadow -- misery."
Sherlock Holmes, in "The Adventure of the Retired Colourman"
Sherlock Holmes, in "The Adventure of the Retired Colourman"
1442 Bernie Madoff
[ Friday, February 26, 2010 | 9:41:18 AM ]
"Once or twice in my career I feel that I have done more real harm by my discovery of the criminal than ever he had done by his crime. I have learned caution now, and I had rather play tricks with the law of England than with my own conscience."
Sherlock Holmes, in "The Adventure of the Abbey Grange"
Sherlock Holmes, in "The Adventure of the Abbey Grange"
1441 Bernie Madoff
[ Friday, February 26, 2010 | 9:37:49 AM ]
"It is murder, Watson -- refined, cold-blooded, deliberate murder."
Sherlock Holmes, in "The Hound of the Baskervilles"
Sherlock Holmes, in "The Hound of the Baskervilles"
1440 Bernie Madoff
[ Friday, February 26, 2010 | 9:35:04 AM ]
"It is of the highest importance in the art of detection to be able to recognize, out of a number of facts, which are incidental and which vital. Otherwise your energy and attention must be dissipated instead of being concentrated."
Sherlock Holmes, in "The Reigate Squires"
Sherlock Holmes, in "The Reigate Squires"
1439 Bernie Madoff
[ Friday, February 26, 2010 | 9:32:01 AM ]
"The tragedy has been so uncommon, so complete and of such personal importance to so many people, that we are suffering from a plethora of surmise, conjecture, and hypothesis. The difficulty is to detach the framework of fact -- of absolute undeniable fact -- from the embellishments of theorists and reporters."
Sherlock Holmes, in "Silver Blaze
Sherlock Holmes, in "Silver Blaze
1438 Bernie Madoff
[ Friday, February 26, 2010 | 9:25:07 AM ]
"I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts."
Sherlock Holmes, in "A Scandal in Bohemia"
Sherlock Holmes, in "A Scandal in Bohemia"
1437 Bernie Madoff
[ Friday, February 26, 2010 | 9:22:44 AM ]
"How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?"
Sherlock Holmes, in "The Sign of the Four"
"What do you think of this, Holmes? Sholto was, on his own confession, with his brother last night. The brother died in a fit, on which Sholto walked off with the treasure. How's that?"
"On which the dead man very considerately got up and locked the door on the inside."
"Hum! There's a flaw there."
Athelney Jones and Holmes, in "The Sign of the Four"
Sherlock Holmes, in "The Sign of the Four"
"What do you think of this, Holmes? Sholto was, on his own confession, with his brother last night. The brother died in a fit, on which Sholto walked off with the treasure. How's that?"
"On which the dead man very considerately got up and locked the door on the inside."
"Hum! There's a flaw there."
Athelney Jones and Holmes, in "The Sign of the Four"
1436 Bernie Madoff
[ Friday, February 26, 2010 | 9:20:36 AM ]
"Eliminate all other factors, and the one which remains must be the truth."
Sherlock Holmes, in "The Sign of the Four"
"No, no: I never guess. It is a shocking habit, -- destructive to the logical faculty."
Sherlock Holmes, in "The Sign of the Four"
Sherlock Holmes, in "The Sign of the Four"
"No, no: I never guess. It is a shocking habit, -- destructive to the logical faculty."
Sherlock Holmes, in "The Sign of the Four"
1435 Bernie Madoff
[ Friday, February 26, 2010 | 9:17:44 AM ]
"My mind," he said, "rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. I can dispense then with artificial stimulants. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation."
Sherlock Holmes, in "The Sign of the Four"
Sherlock Holmes, in "The Sign of the Four"
1434 Bernie Madoff
[ Friday, February 26, 2010 | 9:16:01 AM ]
"In solving a problem of this sort, the grand thing is to be able to reason backwards. That is a very useful accomplishment, and a very easy one, but people do not practise it much. In the every-day affairs of life it is more useful to reason forwards, and so the other comes to be neglected. There are fifty who can reason synthetically for one who can reason analytically."
Sherlock Holmes, in "A Study in Scarlet"
Sherlock Holmes, in "A Study in Scarlet"
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