Mossad Risks Slip-Ups in Race Against Qaeda, Iran

[maddezmom]

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - With al Qaeda and Iran now topping an already hefty "hit list" of Israel's enemies, analysts say Mossad may have too many missions and too few spies to carry them out.



Two Israelis jailed by an Auckland court Thursday for trying to obtain a New Zealand passport by assuming the identity of a wheelchair-bound cerebral palsy victim displayed the rashness of intelligence agents under pressure to perform, experts say.


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"New Zealand is famed for being politically moderate and its citizens are welcomed everywhere. They could be very useful for Mossad," said intelligence analyst Yossi Melman of the Haaretz newspaper. "A government-issue passport is much more foolproof than a forged one, of course."


New Zealand suspended high-level contacts with Israel on Thursday, saying there were "very strong reasons" to believe Uriel Zoshe Kelman and Eli Cara were government spies.


"We don't think this was an isolated act," New Zealand Foreign Minister Phil Goff told Israel Radio after all high-level contacts with the Sharon government were frozen.

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[comradebillyboy]

1. why go to this much trouble

sharon shold just tell bush to have US passports made up for mossad agents.