Mossad exclusion outlines new low in family

By Con Coughlin 512PM GMT twenty-three March 2010

Pictured L to R, (top row) allegedly are Mark Sklur, Daniel Marc Schnur, Philip Carr, (bottom row) Stephen Keith Drake, Gabriella Barney, and Roy Allan Cannon. Photo Dubai Police

Until the tactful row erupted over Israel"s make use of of fake British passports in the gangland slaying of Hamas commander in chief in chief Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in Dubai last month, Mossad had been enjoying a close and prolific intelligence-sharing attribute with Britain"s Secret Intelligence Service.

Senior Israeli comprehension officials were quite unapproachable of the "strategic partnership" that had been determined with their British counterparts to co-operate closely on the tellurian security plea acted by Iran"s unlawful chief programme. The unchanging sell of supportive comprehension material, quite on Iran"s undeclared chief facilities, was hailed as a new epoch in Anglo-Israeli comprehension sharing.

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But this consequential attribute is right away in rags following the review by British officials that reliable that the fifteen British passports used during the al-Mabhouh gangland slaying operation had been fake in Israel.

And whilst Israeli officials go on to reside by their "policy of ambiguity" of on purpose not commenting on abroad comprehension operations, there is small disbelief in the Israeli media that the "hit" was privately certified by Meir Dagan, the former Israeli troops commander in chief in chief who right away heads Mossad.

In Israel, the hawkish Mr Dagan, who has run Mossad for the past eight years, has acquired a repute as an adventurer in the cloak-and-dagger universe of general espionage. He was obliged for the delicately executed operation to murder Imad Mugniyeh, the Lebanese militant mastermind, who was killed by a car explosve in Damascus 3 years ago. But his critics in Israel contend he has a "shoot first, ask questions later" attitude, that would insist because the Israelis assumingly did not cruise the consequences of utilizing the passports of a key vital fan when formulation the al-Mabhouh assassination.

Mr Dagan"s destiny will right away be a make a difference of heated discuss in Israel following Britain"s preference to revoke the turn of the co-operation with Mossad, generally as there is doubtful to be a truce so prolonged as the Israeli supervision maintains the stream process of non-cooperation.

Certainly Mr Dagan would do well to recollect the last time Mossad was diminished from London in 1988 after Israeli agents were held conducting an anti-Palestinian operation on British dirt it was scarcely a decade prior to Mossad was authorised to come in from the cold.