wonder what the update ’98 – 2010 would look like – especially if you included the Depleted Uranium weapons and so-called tactical nukes (i.e. bunkerbusters, MOAB and etc.) We ought also figure out how to include covert programs: ISRAEL’s CONFIRMED NUCLEAR WEAPONS PROGRAM must have done tests. North Korea? I bet Mossad has tacticals.

Mossad, btw, seems more suspect in several of the attacks attributed to “al qaeda”. Proving it isn’t only capable of running 20-30man teams of covert operatives, it is actively doing so, this about the Mossad as recently as March.

The Mossad is suspected of killing Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, a senior Hamas military commander, in January 2010 at Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. The team which carried out the killing is estimated, on the basis of CCTV and other evidence, to have consisted of at least 26 agents traveling on bogus passports. The operatives entered al-Mabhouh’s h, the Motel room, where Mabhouh was subjected to electric shocks and interrogated. The door to his room was reported to have been locked from the inside.[1-4]

Although the UAE police and Hamas have declared Israel responsible for the killing, no direct evidence linking Mossad to the crime has been found. The agents’ bogus passports included six British passports, cloned from those of real British nationals resident in Israel and suspected by Dubai; five Irish passports, apparently forged from those of living individuals[5]; forged Australian passports that raised fears of reprisal against innocent victims of identity theft[6]; a genuine German passport and a false French passport.

Emirati police say they have fingerprint and DNA evidence of some of the attackers, as well as retinal scans of 11 suspects recorded at Dubai airport.[7-8]

Dubai’s police chief has said “I am now completely sure that it was Mossad,” adding: “I have presented the (Dubai) prosecutor with a request for the arrest of (Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu and the head of Mossad,” for the murder.[9-10]

1 Dubai Releases Video Of Alleged Assassins In Hamas Chief Killing Huffington Post Feb 16, 2010, attributed to Associated Press

2. UAE: European team killed Mabhouh Jerusalem Post and Associated Press, Feb 15, 2010

3. Katz, Yaakov (January 31, 2010). “Analysis.: Another blow to the ‘axis of evil’”. The Jerusalem Post. http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=167344. Retrieved January 31, 2010.

4. Issacharoff, Avi (February 2, 2010). “Who killed Mahmoud al-Mabhouh? / Many wanted Hamas man dead”. Haaretz. http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1146911.html. Retrieved February 2, 2010.

5. Melman, Yossi (2010-02-11). “10 agents including 3 women, took part in Dubai Hamas assassination” Haaretz. Retrieved 2010-02-11.

6. “Dubai suspects had five fake Irish passports”. RTE News. February 18, 2010. http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/0218/dubai.html. Retrieved February 21, 2010.

7. “Man in photo on Hamas leader hit squad passport not my son, says mum”. The Australian. Feb 25, 2010. http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/breaking-news/man-in-photo-on-hamas-leader-hit-squad-passport-not-my-son-says-mum/story-fn3dxity-1225834378569. Retrieved Feb 25, 2010.

8. ‘U.K. police in Israel to probe passports used in Dubai hit’ (Haaretz, Feb 27, 2010

9. ‘Interpol adds suspected Dubai assassins to most wanted list’ Haaretz Feb 22, 2010)

10. Israeli PM’s arrest sought over murder News.com, Mar 3, 2010