Mofaz: US has adopted Israel’s targeted killing strategy

[Alan Dershowitz says this vidicates targeted killings]

By JPOST.COM STAFF

Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee chairman MK Shaul Mofaz (Kadima) on Tuesday said that the killing of Osama bin Laden bears witness to the fact that the US has adopted Israel’s strategy of targeting terrorist leaders.

In an interview with Israel Radio, Mofaz said that the strategy was originally adopted by Israel following the murder of nine Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics.

Mofaz called on the government to increase targeted killings of Palestinian terrorist leaders, adding that the strategy had been successful in curtailing terrorist activities.

The former defense minister added that if terrorist activity continued to originate from the Gaza Strip, the leaders of Hamas should be made aware that they are potential targets for assassination and that such targeted killings are considered unquestionably legitimate.

On Monday, a US national security official told Reuters that the US special forces team that hunted down Osama bin Laden was under orders to kill the al-Qaida mastermind, not capture him.

“This was a kill operation,” the official said, making clear there was no desire to try to capture bin Laden alive in Pakistan.

On Sunday, a small American team led a helicopter raid on a large compound in a residential area of Abbottabad, Pakistan, some 35 miles north of Islamabad, killing the al-Qaida leader in a fire fight and capturing his body, according to senior administration officials. His body was later buried at sea.

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  1. “[P]hotos are not an issue. Who cares to see or not to see his smashed mug. Here is much bigger question: why this bastard had not been captured alive for interrogation and military tribunal? why he was shot and thrown to the sea in hurry?”

    Good questions. I’ve been asking them from the moment the Anointed One gave out the news; I’m still asking them.

    Possibilities:

    Maybe Monstermamzer was dead already?

    He’d been on kidney dialysis for a long time; it’s only a stopgap measure that doesn’t work indefinitely.

    Then too, it may be that his bodyguards were under strict orders to see that he wasn’t taken alive.

    If he WAS already in the ministering arms of the virgins, it would, no doubt, be necessary to keep forensic experts from (ever) examining the remains.

    What better — or more permanent — a hiding place than the sea?

    Whatta you got? — I’m listening.

  2. Everyone is talking about photos of this islamic crap. From my perspective photos are not an issue. Who cares to see or not to see his smashed mug. Here is much bigger question: why this bastard had not been captured alive for interrogation and military tribunal? why he was shot and thrown to the sea in hurry? what “respect” they are talking about by following muslim’s protocol while throwing his cadaver into the sea? With all this story I have more questions than answers. The last thing I would do is to trust hussein on any matter… and especially when it comes to protecting “sensitivity” of his muslim brothers.

  4. Levinson: Targeted killings(ASSINATIONS) are not much of a deterrent against committed ideologues who are not only prepared to die for their cause but welcome a martyrs death. It might disrupt for a time their command and control but usually not for very long. The new martyrs become folk heroes and are used to recruit new recruits.

    The British and the Germans had a better way they destroyed whole villages: Collective punishment is the only effective means. Assad killed over 30,000 in Hama and it bought him 40 years of quiet even today in Syria Hama is quiet.