State Department Lied, Denying Dubai Asked for Assistance in Tracking Mossad Assassins | Tikun Olam-תקון עולם : Make the World a Better Place
►http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2010/12/26/wikileaks-state-department-lied-denying-dubai-asked-for-assistan
On February 25, 2010, State Department spokesperson Philip Crowley lied when he told a press conference that he wasn’t aware of any request from Dubai for assistance in tracking the Mossad killers of Mahmoud al-Mabouh. To those who say that Wikileaks hasn’t told us anything we didn’t already know–think again.
Wikileaks has just released a February 24, 2010 cable in which the embassy relays the specific credit card numbers used by 14 of the 27 known Mossad suspects to State with a request for assistance from authorities investigating the killing, and confirms that the UAE foreign minister made the exact same request directly to Secretary Clinton on February 23rd:
Le câble en question :
►http://www.elpais.com/articulo/internacional/Cable/Dubai/pide/ayuda/EE/UU/investigar/asesinato/lider/Hamas/elpepuint/20101225elpepuint_5/Tes
On the margins of a meeting with visiting Secretary Chu, on Feb 24 MFA Minister of State Gargash made a formal request to the Ambassador for assistance in providing cardholder details and related information for credit cards reportedly issued by a U.S. bank to several suspects in last month’s killing of Hamas leader Mahmoud Al-Mabhouh in Dubai. According to a letter Gargash gave the Ambassador (which transmitted details of the request from Dubai Security authorities to the UAE Central Bank), the credit cards were issued by MetaBank, in Iowa. Embassy LEGATT is transmitting the request and associated details to FBI HQ. Gargash asked that Embassy pass any reply to the director of the General Directorate of State Security (GDSS) in Dubai.
Silverstein fait également remarquer que, si depuis quelques jour il y a une rumeur insistante selon laquelle le nouveau chef du Mossad s’apprêterait à reconnaître la responsabilité israélienne et à présenter ses excuses à la Grande-Bretagne (et promettre de ne plus utiliser de passeports britanniques, ah ah ah), cela est certainement plus lié à la sortie annoncée des câbles de #Wikileaks qu’à une bonne volonté du nouveau chef des coups tordus.
Yesterday, I reported that incoming Mossad director Tamir Pardo was prepared to concede Israeli responsibility for the Dubai hit. To any who might view this as an Israeli official seeking to take responsibility for Israeli misdeeds or some such…Wikileaks is rumored to be about to publish cables in which the lid is blown on Mossad involvement. So it’s no skin off Pardo’s back if he admits to a crime which was about to be exposed anyway by others.