Whilst the UK is about to find out who killed Archie Mitchell in EastEnders, the rest of the world already seems to know who killed Hamas arms dealer Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in Dubai: Mossad, the Israeli secret service.
Israel will not confirm or deny that it forged the passports of UK-born Israeli dual passport holders to get a hit team into Dubai.
For most of the world it’s a done deal, even in Israel Mossad are already guilty and Hamas have vowed to avenge.
Maybe Israel did do it, but a BBC article is refreshingly even-handed about who may have done it.
The BBC note that al-Mabhouh arrived in Dubai alone without his usual bodyguard who were due in the next day because they couldn’t tickets on the same plane. Hmm. That’s sounds a little fishy.
And what about two Palestinians who were arrested in Jordan and another in Syria? This seems to point to Fatah, not Mossad and how convenient it would then be to have used Israelis with non-Israeli names to point a finger at Israel. It all seems a bit too clumsy for Mossad. Do Mossad need 12 or 17 people to eliminate one Hamas member? Why did they need to go in mob-handed?
And then al-Mabhouh’s trip was made at such short notice how could such a plot be assembled so quickly?
Maybe Hamas bumped him off to get a t Israel.
There’s even a suggestion that MI6 knew about it and were forewarned by Israel. So all this bluster may be a smokescreen.
Intriguing.
But it is the immediate assumption of Israeli guilt that is so telling.
Let’s see what happens. Maybe we’ll never know.