Dubia Hit Squad

The lingering question I have had is why? Why would a team of trained assassins that have years of operational experience take the time to operate in an environment that could track their movements? Why would they allow themselves to be video taped by in house cameras? Would they not tail their target and run him off the road or shoot him on the street, why would they operate in an environment that did not offer them the ability to remain anonymous during such an operation of this nature requires?

And for that matter do these attacks follow their justification for past attacks that include:

1. Munich Olympics aftermath. At the Munich Olympics of 1972, operatives from Palestinian militant group Black September took a number of Israeli athletes hostage, eventually killing 11 Israeli Athletes and coaches and one West German policeman. In the aftermath of the killings, Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir authorized the Mossad to put together a covert squad of hit men to go after Black September's leaders. In 1973 a team of Israeli commandos landed at a deserted beach outside Beirut and proceeded to kill three men linked to either Black September or the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO). In 1973 at the ski resort of Lillehammer, Norway, Mossad assassins shot and killed Moroccan waiter Ahmed Bouchikhi, apparently mistaking him for PLO intelligence chief Hassan Salameh, who was accused of organizing the Munich massacre. Five Mossad agents were jailed for their involvement in Norway, but later pardoned. Mr. Salameh was later assassinated in Lebanon.

2. Attempted assassination of Khaled al-Meshaal. In 1997, Mossad leaders bungled a bizarre assassination attempt on Hamas leader Khaled al-Meshaal while he was living in Jordan. Mr. Meshaal, who has since risen to lead Hamas and was at the time an important military commander, had a deadly nerve poison injected into his ear by two Israeli agents traveling on forged Canadian passports – the identities for which were stolen. Mr. Meshaal's bodyguard chased down the two attackers and despite taking a nasty gash in the head, managed to keep them tied up until Jordanian cops arrived. With the agents in custody and apparently talking, Jordan's King Hussein pressed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who had reportedly ordered the attempted assassination, to send a Mossad agent with the antidote. Netanyahu relented within a day, and the Mossad agents were later freed.

3. Assassination of Izz el-Deen al-Sheikh Khalil. Mr. Khalil, then in charge of Hamas military operations outside the Palestinian territories, was killed in September 2004 when his car exploded in Damascus, the Syrian capital. Israeli officials privately said at the time they had planted the bomb and that it was in response to two bus bombings in the Israeli city of Bersheeba that killed 16 civilians that August

I leave you the reader the opportunity to make your own assessment!