The assassination of Hamas terrorist Mahmoud al-Mabhouh was apparently caught on Dubai's massive system of video surveillance--well, not exactly the assassination itself, but the stalk that led up to it.

There is just something so odd about all this.

I'm not really dubious that Israeli agents exacted their revenge on the bad man, but its more than a little strange that Dubai authorities could put together surveillance from so many places, locating each member of the assassination team, especially when by their admission, the assassins frequently changed their appearance with the use of wigs and mustaches.

I can only surmise that Dubai authorities had al-Mabhouh under surveillance the minute he entered the country, which would seem reasonable considering Hamas relationship with Iran and Syria. When he was discovered dead (behind a locked and chained door...), the video was all cued up, and all they needed to do was examine the periphery.

No doubt the Left will be screaming bloody murder (actually its was rather neat and clean...), but its an eminently sensible policy by the Israelis to assassinate the assassins. Nobel Peace Prize winner Barack Obama certainly seems to think so.