Dubai Assasins - is an investigation really necessary?

[Jezza30]

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle...

So some assasins used some fake UK passports to knock off a terrorist. So Gordo must grab at headlines and get SOCA involved.

"We have got to carry out a full investigation into this. The British passport is an important document that has got to be held with care," said the Prime Minister.

How does that fit in with the Labour immigration policy - or lack of?

[Hedders]

I wonder who will get rich running this enquiry..

[Puggit]

anonymous said:

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Million? Ooooh, you're cheap!

[Nick_F]

Surely he has an eye on coming up for further grounds for ID cards or some such - when his enquiry provides that British passports are still no harder to come by than they were when that nice Mr Duggan got his?

[Hedders]

Nick_F said:

Surely he has an eye on coming up for further grounds for ID cards or some such - when his enquiry provides that British passports are still no harder to come by than they were when that nice Mr Duggan got his?

Good point.

[Hugo a Gogo]

why can't the Dubai authorities spot obvious fakes? (big smiles in passport photos, faces at angles to camera - these would not be accepted as passport photos)

[Trommel]

Hugo a Gogo said:

why can't the Dubai authorities spot obvious fakes? (big smiles in passport photos, faces at angles to camera - these would not be accepted as passport photos)

More to the point, why didn't the people who made them think of that?

[Northern Munkee]

anonymous said:

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Or perhaps Mossad do a very good quality fake or perhaps the have a stock of genuine blank british passports... Hmmm I wonder.

[Hugo a Gogo]

anonymous said:

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they still put the comedy photographs in there though, even if they were genuine

[Northern Munkee]

anonymous said:

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[BrassMan]

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[5unny]

anonymous said:

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Indeed, the way some sections of the media have reacted here you would think they just picked some random Brits and copied their passports.

All of these guys now live in Israel (and are probably dual nationals) so access to their UK passports would not be difficult.

[S 8 GRN]

Northern Munkee said:

C4 News is just reporting that one of the Israeli British passport holders is reported to have said on arriving at Tel Aviv off his flight his passport was mysteriously taken away at immigration for 15mins before being returned without explanation.

This isn't an unusual occurrence for Ben Gurion. The incident in Dubai is a one-off where as entry into Israel is so strictly policed every single individual is thoroughly checked.

[hidetheelephants]

anonymous said:

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Equally plausible that an unknown agency hostile to Israel(plenty of those to go round, and many of them are well funded) targets foreign nationals living in Israel, break into their houses and photographs their passports. Alternatively the details may be taken when the passport is used as proof of identity somewhere, booking into a hotel, a travel agents(how do these still exist?) bank, etc. A competent printer could knock out a replica passport, made easier by EU passports all being basically the same. Mossad do not have a monopoly on competence in the field of sneaky beaky secret squirrel behaviour.

[Jazzer77]

Imagine it was Iran that copied visitors passports then sent an assaination team to another country and killed someone.

There would be international uproar.
Just remind me again who are the "good guys" in the world?
USA,UK and Israel? They invade countries , assasinate enemies at will , the death toll in Iraq & Afghanistan is in the hundreds of thousands.

[V88Dicky]

Fair play to Israel I say. Shame that Britain has become a nation of bed-wetting pansies and we don't have the balls to do this kind of operation anymore. IMHO of course.

[Scraggles]

iraq was for the oil, he did a pretty good job of stopping all-queer-doh from entering, afghanistan was for the heroin trade or stopping it I think

[Hugo a Gogo]

the taliban banned opium production, they allowed it again to fund their war

[offshorematt2]

Jazzer77 said:

Imagine it was Iran that copied visitors passports then sent an assaination team to another country and killed someone.

There would be international uproar.
Just remind me again who are the "good guys" in the world?
USA,UK and Israel? They invade countries , assasinate enemies at will , the death toll in Iraq & Afghanistan is in the hundreds of thousands.

After watching the story on the news, my other half turned to me and in all seriousness said 'Hamas are the bad guys, right?' - had to explain, there may be more than point of view depending on your nationality...

[zcacogp]

V88Dicky said:

Fair play to Israel I say. Shame that Britain has become a nation of bed-wetting pansies and we don't have the balls to do this kind of operation anymore. IMHO of course.

Have to say that I thought something vaguely along these lines as well ...


Oli.