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Hi Kevin, how’s the IT business..? Wow, that’s very interesting… Zzzzzzz… Are you wearing fake tan, Evan? No, no… I don’t want a makeover, but its sweet of you to ask… Hell-ooo Gail… How you doing? These are the faces of supposed Irish “citizens” Kevin Daveron, Evan Dennings and Gail Folliard, actually part of the Ocean’s 11-esque Mossad unit who assassinated senior Hamas commander Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in Dubai last month.
Leaving aside for the moment issues of morality, sovereignty and international law, you gotta admit this was a pretty bad ass operation. Predictably, Mossad is saying nothing about it. But that hasn’t stopped the Israeli press from gloating about its success.
UPDATE: there’s a more comprehensive CCTV footage here.
February 17th, 2010.
February 17th, 2010 at 10:21 am
Gail is only sexy in that picture. In the CCTV footage she looks a bit of a minger.
February 17th, 2010 at 10:25 am
@ Ciaran – that’s only because she’s in disguise. Besides, any woman who can kill you is automatically sexy…
February 17th, 2010 at 10:53 am
Re any woman who can kill you is automatically sexy. Ahem!
http://www.univie.ac.at/cga/art/RosaKlebb.jpg
February 17th, 2010 at 11:13 am
Nuff said
http://ted.examiner.ie/archives/images/ihead_000608.jpg
February 17th, 2010 at 11:57 am
I spoke without thinking. I apologise.
February 17th, 2010 at 2:06 pm
I’d have to disagree with ciaran there. Catherine Nevin wouldn’t kill you. She have someone else do the job. Not quite the same thing.
Also Eoin, I notice some in Israel are worried about a “diplomatic row” with UK but no mention of being worried about row with Ireland. Unbelievable! Don’t they remember the number we did on Slovakia when they fucked with us???
February 17th, 2010 at 5:10 pm
@ Sean – true, true.
Re: Slovakia, I presume you’re talking about this.
http://www.eoinbutler.com/home/ha-ha-youre-messing-with-the-wrong-country-slovakia/
Yeah, they should be running scared!
February 17th, 2010 at 5:37 pm
@sean. Re: Diplomatic rows. I did notice a funny attitude of wary dismissal towards Ireland by some in Israel, a country of roughly the same size with strong links to the US, a largely english speaking population with a troubled history, redundant persecution complex and a strong family orientated society with a penchant for traditions and corruption. On paper we should get on like a house on fire.
February 17th, 2010 at 6:07 pm
Militarily too, I think we’re both much-of-a-muchness. I’ll see your Mossad and raise you an FCA….
February 17th, 2010 at 11:43 pm
I think the Palestinians feel much more an affinity with the Irish. All about being the underdog. Isn’t there an Ireland-Palestine solidarity group or something? I think Bobby Sands is big out there as well.
February 17th, 2010 at 11:56 pm
That’s true, they do. When I was in Gaza – basically a million and a half people dispossessed and crammed into an oversized shopping centre car park, bombed, bulldozed, besieged, bombed again, bulldozed again etc. – and yet practically everyone I met said “Well, you’re Irish… You must understand what this is like for us…”
I can only assume the Palestinians learned their Irish history from the same source as Damien Dempsey i.e. some sort of Ladybird Provo Propaganda for Kids leaflet…
February 18th, 2010 at 7:31 am
The Irish guy i was traveling with was a celebrity. Did you get the whole “you are the IRA, we are the PLO. We work together!” That’s coming from folk in Hebron.
Fatah arranged training for the IRA in Libya and Lebanon in the 70s and their relationship continued, although Arafat was unwilling. Maybe in some strange turn of events this will bring fatah and hamas together…
Hamas dude: “arafat was always weary of the irish”
Other hamas dude: “yeah, and now the irish have killed al-mabhouh”
Hamas dude: “lets make peace with our irish-skeptic, israel-accepting brothers”
far-fetched?? It certainly would confuse the hell out of Mossad.
Also, couldnt resist the opportunity to drop in here that i’ve been to the west bank. not as bad ass as gaza though 😉
February 18th, 2010 at 8:52 am
West Bank Shmest Shmank, Kate. My Granny was in the West Bank!
February 18th, 2010 at 10:03 am
I lived in Limerick once
February 18th, 2010 at 10:11 am
The plot thickens:
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1150754.html
February 18th, 2010 at 2:06 pm
Also this by Robert Fisk today
http://www.independent.ie/opinion/analysis/robert-fisk-not-one-of-the-nations-spoken-to-has-notified-interpol-of-the-passports-used-in-their-name-2068444.html
February 24th, 2010 at 11:31 pm
in the words of K. Rudd…
Oh no they didnt!
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1152161.html
February 25th, 2010 at 12:30 am
I’d say, from Israel’s point of view, pissing off Australia is only a smidgeon up the scale-of-giving-a-shit from pissing off the Irish. They could care less.
February 25th, 2010 at 2:14 am
haha of course.
i’d say it’s also a bit of an incidental pleasure. We pissed off Mossad ever since we converted Vanunu.
February 25th, 2010 at 2:40 am
Since you mention it, I sat at the next table to Vanunu in the garden at the American Colony in Jerusalem last summer. Poor guy looked like a nervous wreck. He was faced towards the entrance, eyes darting about the place, holding the table every time anyone came up the drive way.
The guy I was eating with, who had interviewed him a couple of years before that, said he’d never seen him looking so relaxed!
Then again, he had two really hot woman with him. So swings and roundabouts really, I suppose.
February 25th, 2010 at 3:43 am
hahaha i had a similar experience. He is probably the most tense person i’ve met. Though I couldnt figure out whether his eyes were darting or whether he was having a bit of a flirt. But you can’t blame the guy either way… That long in isolation would send anyones eyes into any form of intense activity. Once you get talking to him, he’s facinating and indeed he’s quite the charmer.
Also, you’d think he’d have learnt his lesson re hot women 😉
February 25th, 2010 at 8:34 am
Well he’s definitely got an eye for the ladies. If it’s not in bad taste to say so, isn’t that kind of what landed him in trouble in the first place?
Well, that and the old nuclear whistleblowing…
February 25th, 2010 at 12:20 pm
I can’t believe you went there.
February 25th, 2010 at 12:31 pm
All I’m saying that, if he was gay, he’d have been a free man all these years!
February 25th, 2010 at 1:16 pm
i dont know. are you saying that gay men are incapable of mastering the art of seduction?
http://scrapetv.com/News/News%20Pages/Science/Images/Gay-Pride-Parade.jpg
although, it might have been a bit tricky having Rome as scene of the abduction in the 80s.
February 25th, 2010 at 7:38 pm
Yeah, he’d totally eloped with those guys…
February 26th, 2010 at 2:54 pm
Kate at the top of the article you link to, the picture is titled “The three Australian passports used in the assassination of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh”. However two of the passports photographed are Irish….
…Australia is trying to steal our stolen identities!
February 26th, 2010 at 2:56 pm
Ha… the final indignity.
June 2nd, 2010 at 2:38 am
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