This is getting interesting .Too bad the F.B.I. aren’t investigating financing of international assassinations these days or they could really learn something.(See http://www.observer.com/2010/wall-street/new-york-citys-assassination-connection?page=0)

Mahmoud al-Mabhouh Was a worm on a hook
A man dying of cancer looking for one last hurrah against his sworn enemy. The bait in a well thought out plan to gather intelligence and spring a strategic level trap on the Mossad.

Mossad was tricked into killing Mahmoud al-Mabhouh

Here is the evidence

1) The Target was Dying of Cancer, we get this from the Pre Written Original Obituary report from his former organisation (not the organisation that was current at the time of his death and who he supposedly went to Dubai for) and that they past on that information within 24 hours of the report of his death and before his new organisation could counter it and prevent the fact of his long term illness leaking into the news:
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=255640

2) I also point out he booked his ticket over the Internet in his own name knowing it would show up on Mossad’s surveillance and also as was reported by the Dubai Police that he travelled on his own passport:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,587044,00.html?test=latestnews

Also reported in the Jerusalem Post and various other Israeli News papers, as well as the Western media and Gulf news papers:

3) Most of those same articles also point out: he talked to his family in Gaza about the trip over the phone knowing their phone lines were tapped by the Mossad as does this one from the UAE.
http://www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100131/FOREIGN/701309828/1002

5) That he had arranged for his wife to phone him at that hotel at a specific time as was reported by the Dubai Police as being the trigger for the hotel staff to break in to his hotel. Thus specifying a time line when Mossad could kill him.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1146911.html

6) In all the videos, this experienced agent of Hamas with three previous attempts on his life by Israel successfully beaten and supposedly training in counter surveillance from nation states; he the target employed no counter surveillance what so ever:
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=dubaisesslon&annotation_id=annotation_425824

7) The target also traveled without his usual bodyguards, despite at least three previous attempts to assassinate him by Israel:
http://www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100131/FOREIGN/701309828/1002

The discovery that the two Palestinian Mossad assets, turn out to be, a former Gaza FATA PA Policeman who’s family is still in Gaza and had been living in exile in Dubai after being accused of being a Mossad spy. And then his Brother who has been living in Gaza until recently, suddenly turns up and joins him to suddenly also become a Mossad asset, all a short while before the Target conveniently presents himself.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article7034183.ece

9) Then after the event the Two Palestinian assets are the only ones captured within 24 hours mind you, there is no film of them and they are scooted away to the UAE. There is much confusion about this where both FATA and Hamas say they are members of the opposite group.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article7034183.ece?token=null&offset=12&page=2

And then the evidence was gathered and released in a controlled fashion by an impeccable witness. Using Dubai to conduct, what IMHO was a counter Mossad operation; was a master stroke. Most of the leg work could be done by electronic means and by a western trained police force.

The indisputable fact that Dubai police in the speed it reacted to a single assassination; beat both the US FBI, CIA, NSA and police in the speed it got information on the 9/11 suspects; and MI5 and Scotland Yard on the London 7/7 bombing suspects; yet this remarkable feat has never been remarked on by anyone.

I give no evidence for this last point but ask for you to examine your own credulity on the matter.

IMHO the Dubai Police have been fed the evidence to suit another parties needs.

Like I said IMHO Mahmoud al-Mabhouh Was a worm on a hook
A man dying of cancer looking for one last hurrah against his sworn enemy. The bait in a well thought out plan to gather intelligence and spring a strategic level trap on The Mossad.

Now let us look at the results:

Tactical moves by the Mossad that I think were made with clear goals in mind were:
1) Kill the Target [√]
2) Escape the Country [√]

Strategic moves by the Mossad that I think were made with clear goals in mind were:
1) Maintain Mossad’s targeted killings strategy. [√]
2) Maintain political deniability [X]
3) Use the “policy of ambiguity” to supplement political deniability while hinting at implacable state retribution [X]

Tactical moves by the force Inimical to Israel that I think were made with clear goals in mind were:

1) Choose the time and location on which the operation will take place. [√]
2) Control and pollute the Mossad intelligence stream. [√]
3) Gather detailed intelligence and records of Mossad’s methods, Tradecraft and cover companies like Payoneer. [√]
4) Negate all the agents involved, including those at the cover companies now named in the US, Germany, Austria and Switzerland, as well as busting those cover companies, even the agents and assets not identified by Dubai police are now useless, you cannot be sure the other side has not got the identities of those that are not named. [√]
5) Conduct a successful counter operation to a Mossad targeted killing operation. [√]
6) Create a Hamas martyr from a man who was dying anyway [√]
7) Control the release of information for maximum effect [√]

Strategic moves by the force Inimical to Israel that I think were made with clear goals in mind were:
1) Isolate Israel from Dubai by luring Mossad into action on Dubai’s Soil. [√]
2) Isolate Israel from Allies by filming the whole event and capturing Israel’s use of Allies Passports.[√]
Mossad’s habit of cloning passports from not unfriendly nations has a long history and was a predictable aspect. 25 year ago it caused a big problem when UK passports were used and Israel was forced to promise not to do it any more. Ditto the poison in the ear the use of Canadian passports, and the more recent New Zealand passports case where New Zealand withdrew all senior diplomatic relations. Israeli Governments have fallen in the past as a result of less than this. IMHO this time it is worse as several nations are affected at the same time.
3) Get Mossad and Israel castigated by the whole world, such that Ambassadors get quizzed and carpeted. [√]
4) Tarnish the reputation of Mossad by making them appear Amateurish [√]
5) Reduce public Trust of Mossad within Israel. [√]
6) Cause Mossad’s trust of its assets to be knocked and questioned within Mossad. [√]
10) Mossad’s targeted killings operation gets called into question and possibly put on hold. [√]
11) Cause Israel to suffer sanctions and costs at the hands of formerly friendly nations.[?]
12) Reduce Israel’s international political capital at a strategic moment in time. [√]

You could argue that a portion or indeed all of of these strategic and tactical elements were accidental and not intended but their effect remains the same Mossad the supposed ultra spies have been beaten and suffered catastrophic damage.

Payoneer board members are graduates of the Talbiot and Israeli military 8200 unit, the ultra-secret high-tech intelligence unit

Rami Mittelman sits as the Chief Operating Officer of Payoneer . Rami Mittelman is also listed as VP Product Manager of VERINT SYSTEMS. VERINT is a subsidiary of Comverse Infosys started by ex-Israeli intelligence Officers and provides data-processing programs to American law enforcement agencies authorized to eavesdrop on private phone conversations. Other Verint Directors include past NSA/NRO and DIA head LT. GEN Kenneth Minihan (http://investing.businessweek.com/businessweek/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=1908593&privcapId=1446400&previousCapId=1717518&previousTitle=Verint%20Systems%20Inc.)

Verint is listed under the Israeli aerospace and homeland security sections http://www.export.gov.il/Eng/_Articles/Article.asp?ArticleID=9490&CategoryID=686&Page=1
Comverse executives were arrested for stock manipulation and financial fraud in 2006 and delisted from the stock exchange

A little more digging you find connections to everything from voice biometrics to license plate recognition (http://www.israel21c.org/technology/israeli-voice-verification-keeps-track-of-visa-holders-to-us) but most importantly – airport security. (http://www.pacificfreepress.com/news/1-/3385-the-private-and-profitable-world-o) All of these hi-tech Israeli companies are military spin-offs and Payoneer board members also work for Verint – responsible for airport screening.

It didn’t “take 20 people to kill one guy.” The use of so many agents was to help create a simple magician’s trick of misdirection. With so many actors in play, literally going in circles and in and out of doors and elevators at some moments, it becomes far more difficult to sort out who did what. Watch some of the old Marx brothers comedies and you’ll see this technique used for purely entertainment purposes. Of course, in the Dubai murder, there was no entertainment purpose unless that phrase was wholly redefined as I slept. Quite aside from this black intelligence operation, Israel has lost the so-called moral high ground in its quests to have the world condone or remain silent about the campaign of genocide against the Palestinian Arabs. Israel’s cries of “anti-Semitism” and “holocaust deniers” are losing their force as devices to silence critics of its murderous policies. They have turned Gaza into something resembling the Warsaw Ghetto of World War II. The government of Israel murders with impunity. And be assured that I don’t deny the reality of the holocaust in which 1.5 million Roma were also slaughtered but largely forgotten because they have no propaganda or fund-raising value for Israel. Neither, if my associations were known, could I be labeled “anti-Semitic.” I simply condemn genocide no matter what nation or band of thugs commits it.

As far as ‘…why did it take 20 people…’ , please see this as a training exercise as well as an assassination. “Now class – pay attention! This is how we apply the electrodes, and now the plastic bag over the head – so much more effective than the messy practice of water-boarding. After all when one lives in an arid country, one needs to save water wherever possible. And plastic bags leave no ballistics evidence.” Shalom.