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State-Sponsored Assassins Tend to Get Away

By Paul WachterMar 6th 2010 – 9:50AM

(March 6) -- Details continue to trickle out about the assassination in January of Hamas military leader Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in Dubai. And while Israel has not confirmed or denied involvement, everyone -- even Israel's friends -- suspects its intelligence service, Mossad, masterminded and carried out the hit. The Mossad...

Background on khaled mashal

Khaled Mashal, ( ', Levantine Arabic: , also transcribed Khaled Mashaal, Khaled Meshaal and Khalid Mish'al ; born May 28 1956) has been the main leader of Hamas since the assassination of Abdel Aziz al-Rantissi in 2004. In addition, Mashal heads the Syrian branch of the political bureau of Hamas.

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