Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
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http://www.thejc.com/news/world-news/28367/dubai-assassination-was-a-masterclass-intelligence
Dubai assassination was a masterclass in intelligence
By Scott Stewart, February 18, 2010
There have been enormous and dramatic changes in the use of passports 
and visas over the last 10 to 15 years. It is no longer so easy to 
counterfeit, and it is also much harder to alter such documents.
Today - ironically, in order to prevent terrorists travelling - 
passports and visas now have RFID chips embedded, making them much 
harder to forge. A lot of the lower-level kind of forgeries will 
diminish and in future it will only be the high-end counterfeiters who 
will operate.
But this will also mean it will be more difficult for the high-end 
intelligence agencies to operate. In the future, they will have to 
obtain documents through bribery and malfeasance.
We will see intelligence agencies such as Mossad using documents stolen 
from people who bear a resemblance to the operatives that they want to 
send out.
I plan to use this operation to teach my students
In Pakistan, for example, this is already commonplace: jihadist groups 
get people to surrender their passports and then use people who look as 
much as possible like the original holders. This avoids the necessity to 
try to alter the pictures.
As far as relations between Britain and Israel are concerned, this is 
unlikely to be a big problem. There may well be some sort of "knock it 
off" admonition from the British to the Israelis, I doubt there will be 
big repercussions. Things like aggressive Israeli spying against the UK 
would have much greater repercussions.
In relation to the Dubai operation itself, I look at it for the tactical 
breakdown of how they did it. I plan to use it as a teaching tool for 
some of our corporate customers.
To my mind, this operation was an absolute success. I was amused when I 
heard it described in America as one of Mossad's sloppiest operations. 
Nothing could be further from the truth.
The team had excellent intelligence, they were well-prepared and their 
demeanour was as smooth as butter.
Mossad had the tradecraft to do it. They were well-trained, and the 
video that the Dubai police produced from the hotel is not something you 
see widely. These people were excellent.
They got someone who met the pillars of their criteria - he was a 
current threat, there was the retribution angle, and his death will 
upset the flow of arms from Iran to Hamas.
As for the future, the furore will simmer down and Mossad will just get 
better and change its tradecraft and its counterfeiting, and probably 
the countries that it uses for cover. I could go to Managua now and get 
a Nicaraguan passport today, it is that easy. I think Israel will 
probably look in Latin America and also possibly Mediterranean countries 
such as Lebanon, Cyprus, or even Italy. They will have to work illegally 
- but they know how to do it.
Scott Stewart is vice-president of tactical intelligence for the Statfor 
Global Intelligence Company, based in Austin, Texas

 Dubai assassination was a masterclass in intelligence
questo articolo è un capolavoro di propaganda, senza dubbio. Perchè
solo un propagandista può chiamare un capolavoro un'operazione che ha
sputtanato chi l'ha fatta e il governo urbi et orbi nel giro di pochi
giorni. I capolavori di intelligence sono quelli che si conosceranno
tra secoli...