They'd have been better off keeping their mouths shut
Wikileaks reveals that the government of Dubai debated keeping quiet when they learned the details of the liquidation of Hamas terrorist Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in January. They decided not to remain silent because 'it would be seen as siding with Israel.'"The two options discussed were to say nothing at all, or to reveal more or less the full extent of the UAE's investigations," U.S. Ambassador Richard Olson wrote in a diplomatic cable, based on a conversation he had with a UAE government media adviser.They'd have been better off remaining silent. First, if they'd remained silent, everyone would have assumed that the liquidators were geniuses who managed to pull off the liquidation without leaving a trace (of course, we would now know otherwise thanks to Wikileaks, but no one knew that at the time). No one would have seen them as siding with Israel.
The first option "would have been perceived as protecting the Israelis," the ambassador wrote.
The cables show the al-Mabhouh hit was discussed for nine days at the UAE government's highest levels before being released to the public.
"The statement was carefully drafted not to point any fingers, but the reference ... to a gang with Western passports will be read locally as referring to the Mossad," Olson wrote.
Dubai officials were not immediately available for comment on the leaked cables.
Second, given that the only people arrested so far were the 'Palestinians' who betrayed Mabhouh, all the Dubai police really accomplished was to make fools of themselves.
Labels: Dubai, Inspector Tamim, Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, Wikileaks
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 10:51 PM
1 Comments:
Yup. They should have called it a natural death and left it at that. But Inspector Tamim and his incompetent boys just couldn't help themselves.
Heh
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