Former Mossad Agent Ridicules Gaza ShaidEaid: "So Stupid, It's Stupefying..."

[Hissyspit]

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/spy-talk/2010/06/former_mossad_agent_ridicules.html

Former Mossad agent ridicules Gaza ship raid

The Israeli commando attack on a civilian flotilla was “so stupid it is stupefying,” says former Mossad agent Victor Ostrovsky.

Ostrovsky spent six years in the Israeli navy, rising to the rank of lieutenant commander before Mossad recruited him in 1982. He quit after four years and in the 1990s he wrote two highly critical, first-person books about the intelligence service.

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Members of the unit “have trained extensively for overtaking a ship," he said. "However, their training was directed at overtaking a hijacked ship.”
Evidently the tactics weren't adjusted for this mission.

"Mossad probably had more than one man on board" the ships, Ostrovsky said, secret agents who would have been giving Israeli mission planners an accurate picture of what was happening on the vessels. Were their reports ignored?

"At this point," says Jeffrey White, a former Middle East analyst at the Defense Intelligence Agency, "it is hard to say if this was a failure of collection, assessment or operational preparation."

"My sense is that somewhere in the process from collection to conduct, the notion that this would be an action against moderate opposition became fixed ...."

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[EFerrari]

1. It makes you wonder if it was the infiltrator's idea to take up

anything to hand to repel the boarders.

The IDF look like brutal idiots to the entire world.

[Hissyspit]

2. Sure wish I could fix that headline.

:)