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Originally posted by MrSquirrel The only specific that comes to mind at the moment is the killing of an American ballistics expert who was in Iraq during the 1980s working on Saddams super-gun. He was murdered in a Bagdhad alley and if I remember the report I saw correctly.

It was a Canadian, killed in Belgium actually:
http://www.rense.com/general33/desin.htm

More on the Mossad:
http://www.globalsecurity.org/intel...rael/mossad.htm

Of course the Mossad never admitted it did this, it simply hinted at it. The Brits are currently the one saying the Mossad did it.

Furthermore however, the Mossad has never assinated anyone that was not hepling and aiding a recongized enemy. You have to remember - Israel and Iraq are technically at a state of war - as with the Palestinian terror groups.

There is no moral, or legal obligation to assisnating some of your enemies - many times that is the objective.

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If you want my opinion on the "targeted killings" of leaders of Hamas and other organizations it is this. Using an apache or F-16 as a gun platform to shoot a missile into a house in the middle of the night to "target" a militant leader is a bit like using a steamroller to crush an ant.

What would you suggest then? WWII carpet style bombing perhaps?

Don't you realize that all this diplomatic bullshitting in the UN or EU is so so irrelevant to the actual situation in Israel / Palestinian territories? Do you honestly think that countries (by that I mean their governments) like Syria or Sudan CARE about what happens to the Palestinian people, let alone Arafat himself? Hypocritical ego-trips like these won't affect the behavior of either side. It takes place in a parallel universe.

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