[ISN] Dubai Assassination Followed Failed Attempt by Same Team

From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2011 05:27:27 -0600 (CST)
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/01/dubai-assassination/

By Kim Zetter 
Threat Level
Wired.com
January 4, 2011

The successful assassination of a high-ranking member of Hamas early 
last year in Dubai followed an unsuccessful attempt by the same hit team 
two months earlier, according to a magazine story out this month.

The elite team suspected of orchestrating the kill tried to poison 
Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in November 2009 in Dubai, according to GQ magazine. 
The unknown toxin, possibly slipped into a drink or placed on fixtures 
in a hotel room, left al-Mabhouh mysteriously ill but not fatally so. 
Al-Mabhouh recovered from the illness without knowing he’d been 
poisoned, only to be killed by the same team about two months later on 
Jan. 19, 2010.

The article, written by Ronen Bergman, an Israeli investigative 
journalist and author, leaves no question that Israel’s Mossad 
intelligence agency was behind the attack. The agency’s code name for 
al-Mabhouh was Plasma Screen.

Most of the details in the article have been previously reported, but 
the piece does add some new information.

Israeli spies, for example, had been monitoring al-Mabhouh’s e-mail and 
online activities via a Trojan horse planted on his computer, and 
therefore knew when he’d be arriving in Dubai, according Bergman. They 
did not, however, know which hotel he’d be staying at, which forced the 
well-prepared hit squad to improvise a bit.

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