Israel’s Mossad obtained blank passports from Anglo countries, provided false gvmt assurances re use
Virtual ADMISSION by Mossad implicating them in the Dubai assassination – “…a Haaretz probe discovered that the passport photographs of the agents who assassinated Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in Dubai were doctored so the agents would not be identified. The discovery casts doubt on claims that the espionage agency that carried out last month’s hit on the senior Hamas operative committed grave errors. Various features of the people in the photographs, such as eye color or the line of a lip, were changed…” http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1152610.html
These are the known facts: The Dubai police claim that 26 visitors entered and exited the emirate over the past year on false British, Irish, Australian, German and French passports. Some or all were involved in the assassination of senior Hamas operative Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, who also entered Dubai under a false identity. The Dubai police chief has accused the Mossad of the January 19 hit. He has presented no proof, but more than half of the fake passports in Dubai bore the names of Israelis.
The European Union and the countries whose passports were counterfeited have criticized the misuse of their identity documents without mentioning the names of those responsible. French President Nicolas Sarkozy termed the assassination utterly unjustified – “nothing more than a murder.” Israel has neither confirmed nor denied involvement in Mabhouh’s killing or in falsifying the documents, but former Israel Defense Forces chief of staff Dan Halutz said that such actions attributed to Israel “deter terror organizations.”
It is unclear whether terrorist groups are more deterred than in the past. What is clear is that the plot is thickening as more suspects are uncovered. If the claims of Israel’s responsibility are correct, what appears to be cumulative damage is getting worse…..
Did Mabhouh’s assassination justify taking such a risk? Was there negligence or contempt for the adversary on the part of the planners, the commanders and those who approved the operation (Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, according to foreign reports)? Were other operations compromised, that were even more essential than the killing of a Hamas weapons smuggler? Is criticism by countries whose passports were falsified just for the record, or will it limit operatives’ freedom of action in other hits? Will the affair increase Israel’s international isolation and present it once again as a lawless state?
If foreign reports are true about Israel’s responsibility for the Mabhouh hit and the forged passports, then a thorough clarification is warranted, which can lead to conclusions about both organizations and individuals. http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1152509.html
AUSTRALIAN authorities had already warned Israeli intelligence against using doctored passports in its clandestine activities around the world, the newspaper The Australian reported on Thursday.
The Australian report came as Canberra warned Israel earlier Thursday that if it was involved in the alleged use of three forged Australian passports in the assassination of a Hamas leader in Dubai, it would not be considered the act of a friend…..
According to sources quoted in the article, Australian authorities approached Israel in the 1990s to seek assurances that Australian passports would not be used in Mossad activities after it was feared Israeli agents had doctored New Zealand passports.
During that meeting, the article claims, the Israelis said they condoned such identity theft, with Australian participants describing their response as “enraged self-righteousness.”
The Australian foreign minister at the time, Alexander Downer, confirmed to The Australian that the then Canberra government warned Israel in at least one occasion not to issue fake Australian passports to its intelligence operatives….. http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1152161.html
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Remote Corporate Espionage and the Cyber Proxy War
Professor Howard Schmidt, ISF President and one time security adviser to the White House discusses how and why corporate espionage is taking place.
Phishing emails not to get credit cards or even identity theft information but after logon information for intellectual property theft.
Professor Schmidt sites a case study involving a discussion of a former director of counter intelligence of a large European country, where the following two part question was posed.
Do you spy on other governments?
No – we absolutely do not, we are partners, we have treaties signed etc
Do you spy on other companies in other countries?
After a brief hesitation, the reply came back.
Let me explain it to you this way. If it cost me 20 million euros to buy an aeroplane from another government but if I can acquire that technology and build it for five million euros, isn’t that a good thing?
According to Professor Schmidt, many countries around the world have really great technology but have not put a lot of effort into securing their technology.
A hack into their systems could be sanctioned at the highest level of government, or an unsanctioned civil servant who thinks they can do their country a service by helping their country acquire technology cheaply or even a hobbiest looking to find out the truth about a project.
The issue however is not the motive of the hacker but that companies need to ensure that they have the right security in place in order to enable them to do business securely.
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