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Mossad carries out daring London raid
« on: May 16, 2011, 11:06:33 PM »
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/8514919/Mossad-carries-out-daring-London-raid-on-Syrian-official.html

Undercover agents tracked a Syrian official carrying nuclear secrets to London where they broke into his hotel room and stole the plans as part of a daring operation on foreign soil by Mossad, the Israeli secret service, it has been claimed.
Mossad carries out daring London raid on Syrian official
The first day of the official's trip was apparently devoted to a series of meetings at the Syrian embassy in Belgrave Square Photo: REX
Duncan Gardham
By Duncan Gardham, Security Correspondent 5:54PM BST 15 May 2011

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The original plan was apparently to assassinate the official and Israel only averted what would have been a huge diplomatic rift with Britain, when they decided the target was more valuable alive than dead.

The operation involved at least 10 undercover agents on the streets of Britain and led directly to a controversial bombing raid into Syrian territory that destroyed a nuclear reactor that was under construction.

It closely mirrored the assassination of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, a senior Hamas arms trader, who was killed in his hotel room in Dubai last year using agents disguised as tennis players.

The operation began when Israeli intelligence picked up an online booking for a senior Syrian nuclear official at a hotel in Kensington, west London, in late 2006, according to the Israeli authors of the book Israel vs Iran: the Shadow War.

Mossad then dispatched three undercover teams to Britain including a team of "spotters" who were sent to Heathrow airport to identify the official as he flew in from Damascus under a false name. A second team booked into his hotel, while a third monitored his movements and any visitors.
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The agents included members of the Kidon [Spear] division, Mossad's hit squad, and the Neviot [Springs] division, which specialises in breaking into houses, embassies and hotel rooms to install bugging devices.

The first day of the official's trip was apparently devoted to a series of meetings at the Syrian embassy in Belgrave Square but the following day he went shopping before his return to the airport.

The Kidon team followed him closely from shop to shop while the Neviot agents broke into his room and found his laptop. A computer expert took 15 minutes to download the hard drive and install trojan software that allowed Israel to monitor every keystroke he made.

When the computer material was examined at Mossad headquarters in Tel Aviv, officials found photographs and blueprints for a plutonium reactor at Al Kibar near Deir el-Zor, a remote desert town 80 miles from Syria's border with Iraq.

According to one source quoted in the book, the discovery saved the life of the official, who would otherwise have been killed in Britain, causing a major diplomatic incident.

"His computer and its contents turned out to be his life insurance. If it weren't for that, he wouldn't have left Europe alive," the security official boasted.

In August 2007 Israel apparently sent a special forces team into Syria to collect soil samples near the reactor, then at around 1am on September 5 2007 Israeli fighter bombers attacked the facility in a raid into Syrian airspace that destroyed the plant.


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Re: Mossad carries out daring London raid
« Reply #1 on: May 16, 2011, 11:13:35 PM »
When does the movie version come out ?

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Re: Mossad carries out daring London raid
« Reply #2 on: May 16, 2011, 11:16:48 PM »
Very cool, although the keystroke logging software seems pretty pedestrian.
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Re: Mossad carries out daring London raid
« Reply #3 on: May 17, 2011, 12:28:21 AM »
This story is being floated today (its veracity is highly dubious - why would a syrian agent be taking nuclear plans to London?) because of the series of embarrassments recently suffered by the Mossad.  They must be hoping that no one will notice their incompetence in failing to detect Facebook advertised protests.
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Re: Mossad carries out daring London raid
« Reply #4 on: May 17, 2011, 05:11:27 AM »
Quote from: De Selby on May 17, 2011, 12:28:21 AM
This story is being floated today (its veracity is highly dubious - why would a syrian agent be taking nuclear plans to London?) because of the series of embarrassments recently suffered by the Mossad.  They must be hoping that no one will notice their incompetence in failing to detect Facebook advertised protests.

It is now the job of the Mossad to detect protests within Israel?

Carry on?
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Re: Mossad carries out daring London raid
« Reply #5 on: May 17, 2011, 05:24:49 AM »
Quote from: MicroBalrog on May 17, 2011, 05:11:27 AM
It is now the job of the Mossad to detect protests within Israel?

Carry on?

Mobs of people streaming in from all three borders you mean?  You can't possibly believe that this story is a coincidence.
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« Reply #6 on: May 17, 2011, 05:37:14 AM »
Ziva was sure to be in there somewhere. Gibbs will get that wry smile when he hears about it.
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« Reply #7 on: May 17, 2011, 05:44:49 AM »
Nah, I think Gibss will be out of sorts for a while since Franks got snuffed.
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Re: Mossad carries out daring London raid
« Reply #8 on: May 17, 2011, 05:51:31 AM »
Quote from: De Selby on May 17, 2011, 05:24:49 AM
Mobs of people streaming in from all three borders you mean?  You can't possibly believe that this story is a coincidence.

It would be difficult for it not to be. I doubt the people who fail to assassinate a man in a Jordanian hospital on life support had planned and executed this raid on a three-day notice.
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« Reply #9 on: May 17, 2011, 06:43:10 AM »
Quote from: RoadKingLarry on May 17, 2011, 05:44:49 AM
Nah, I think Gibss will be out of sorts for a while since Franks got snuffed.
He's such a wimp.  :laugh:
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« Reply #10 on: May 17, 2011, 07:14:32 AM »
Quote from: MicroBalrog on May 17, 2011, 05:51:31 AM
It would be difficult for it not to be. I doubt the people who fail to assassinate a man in a Jordanian hospital on life support had planned and executed this raid on a three-day notice.

Uh, the raid happened in 2006 - they're only leaking it now.  Gee, I wonder why they chose now.
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« Reply #11 on: May 17, 2011, 07:22:28 AM »
Quote from: De Selby on May 17, 2011, 07:14:32 AM
Uh, the raid happened in 2006 - they're only leaking it now.  Gee, I wonder why they chose now.

Oh. Carry on then.
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« Reply #12 on: May 17, 2011, 07:33:31 AM »
Quote from: MicroBalrog on May 17, 2011, 07:22:28 AM
Oh. Carry on then.

While we're carrying on - I wouldn't be surprised to learn that this whole story is a fabrication. What would a Syrian official be doing in London with nuclear plans?  Wouldn't he be going the other direction with those?
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« Reply #13 on: May 17, 2011, 07:54:46 AM »
2006? I knew this all sounded very familiar. Damn  reruns...  :mad:
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Hey, you're the guy with an avatar from one of the worst reruns of all time. ;)
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« Reply #15 on: May 17, 2011, 10:07:37 AM »
So?  :P

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« Reply #16 on: May 18, 2011, 05:23:45 AM »
How could Mossad notice protests on Facebook?

Facebook is CIA's (or maybe FBI's) intelligence coup. I doubt they'd be willing to share stuff with the Juice. Maybe they warned them, but with the number of people on Facebook, they can't be watching everything. They likely have the same problem NSA has with email snooping... the sheer number of people and the amount of noise makes finding stuff you are not looking for not very likely.

(why do I think that... now listen. Facebook is a spook's wet dream. AV companies have already been approached by US officials demanding they make their AV software stop detecting official trojans. Zuckerberg has never cared about privacy, so he'd likely give free snooping access to US govt organisations and pat himself on the back for being a smart guy..and I imagine NSA specialists could really help with making Facebook harder to access by foreign intelligence agencies. Sure.. they can always snoop on net traffic, but accessing the databases directly is always more convenient)
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« Reply #17 on: May 18, 2011, 06:10:10 AM »
Uh. The 'third Intifada' protests were discussed and organized openly on FB. *Everybody* knew about them down here. I have seen that page, and so have other people I know. I think the fact that the authorities were not prepared for them shows a massive grade of failure.
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« Reply #18 on: May 18, 2011, 06:54:59 AM »
Quote from: MicroBalrog on May 18, 2011, 06:10:10 AM
Uh. The 'third Intifada' protests were discussed and organized openly on FB. *Everybody* knew about them down here. I have seen that page, and so have other people I know. I think the fact that the authorities were not prepared for them shows a massive grade of failure.

Maybe they were too busy trying to crack the encrypted messages I was sending around.  Between that and occasionally using Mixmaster remailers to send myself heavily encrypted notes and recipes, I think I'm doing my part to contribute noise   =D

Then again, just in case...


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« Reply #19 on: May 18, 2011, 08:12:37 AM »
Quote from: KD5NRH on May 18, 2011, 06:54:59 AM
Maybe they were too busy trying to crack the encrypted messages I was sending around.  Between that and occasionally using Mixmaster remailers to send myself heavily encrypted notes and recipes, I think I'm doing my part to contribute noise   =D

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Re: Mossad carries out daring London raid
« Reply #20 on: May 18, 2011, 05:41:36 PM »
@Micro

So, even Jews are not immune to victory disease?
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« Reply #21 on: May 18, 2011, 05:43:51 PM »
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So, even Jews are not immune to victory disease?

Welcome to 1973.
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« Reply #22 on: May 20, 2011, 04:56:57 AM »
Hmm..yeah. So, they didn't take the lesson to their hearts..
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« Reply #23 on: May 21, 2011, 04:13:57 AM »
Quote from: Lanius on May 18, 2011, 05:23:45 AM
How could Mossad notice protests on Facebook?
Facebook is CIA's (or maybe FBI's) intelligence coup. I doubt they'd be willing to share stuff with the Juice. Maybe they warned them, but with the number of people on Facebook, they can't be watching everything. They likely have the same problem NSA has with email snooping... the sheer number of people and the amount of noise makes finding stuff you are not looking for not very likely.
(why do I think that... now listen. Facebook is a spook's wet dream. AV companies have already been approached by US officials demanding they make their AV software stop detecting official trojans. Zuckerberg has never cared about privacy, so he'd likely give free snooping access to US govt organisations and pat himself on the back for being a smart guy..and I imagine NSA specialists could really help with making Facebook harder to access by foreign intelligence agencies. Sure.. they can always snoop on net traffic, but accessing the databases directly is always more convenient)

Because logically, a government that is so ultra-powerful that it can access our computers on a whim, must rely on our co-operation via social networking.


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Re: Mossad carries out daring London raid
« Reply #24 on: May 22, 2011, 09:12:51 AM »
Access computers on a whim?

That's obviously not true.

And there is a difference between having some access to personal computers and having access to what people say to their friends, or their observations.

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