Dubai seeks '11 Europeans' for Hamas killing

[Peter Presland]

There is, of course, another possibility Peter. That is that Mossad were contracted to carry out Bull's assassination on the part of another friendly state. I remember this case somewhat and discussed it with someone I knew who investigated it for the purposes of making a TV documentary about it. In this person's view the assassinations had the 'style" of a Mossad hit. But he believed British fingerprints were actually all over it.

We can extend this analysis further about the Robert Maxwell death. Gordon Thomas said in one of his books, that Mossad were behind that. A (now retired) senior journalist I know who worked for Maxwell conducted his own private investigation and believed it was probably the US and/or UK who were ultimately responsible.

The bottom line is that if you wish to conduct a high profile assassination you're going to make damn well sure you muddy the waters by contracting out to another friendly agency - who may well also contract out to yet another friendly agency etc etc., and they, in turn, ultimately may use independent cut outs.

Thomas could be precisely right and absolutely incorrect at the same time.

I agree with all that David. In fact my intention was precisely to hint at a possible Mossad-MI6 collusion with

The BIG problem with all that is that it is presented as the definitive version of what happened, whereas it is far from certain that Mossad were the prime movers - or even the trigger men..... In short MI6, the eyes, ears, facilitators and enforcers of UK Deep State interests were undoubtedly relieved at the early demise of all those players and were as well placed as any organisation to ensure they occurred.

My guess is that GT probably intended to "be precisely right and absolutely incorrect at the same time" as you put it.

On the Maxwell thing I also concur fully. A chap called Gordon Logan (persona-non-grata in the UK and currently resident in Dubai of all places) did a long and interesting take on the Maxwell-MI6-Mossad thing a decade ago. It's archived at Cryptome here.

He also does a credible job of saddling MI6 with those Saudi bombings over alleged drinks turf wars back in 2000 where you'll recall, at their masters bidding our popular press indulged a sustained bout of apoplexy over those barbaric Saudis torturing and framing a few poor innocent UK nationals; people who Logan maintains were in fact the actual perpetrators. Sandy Mitchell (one of the chief victims - or perpetrators - depending upon who you believe), looking suitably meek and innocuous even made it into an Adam Curtis documentary about the pusillanimity of the UK government over their failure to rescue those poor Brits as I recall - not that I have any sympathy whatsoever for the Saudis you understand. It's just that our own SIS's 'ain't no bandleaders' either as that Godfather character described himself.

Come to think of it both of those little stories probably ought to be archived here somewhere too.