Soccer Dad: Mabhouh's razor

February 26, 2010

Mabhouh's razor

There's a concept of Occam's razor, which explains that the simplest explanation for a phenomenon is likely correct. So why does the hit on Mahmoud Mabhouh keep getting more complicated. Yossi Melman explains (h/t Aussie Dave):

The story just gets more and more complicated, which on its face at least leads us into territory that is more than amazing - wild even - which is hard to judge by rational and professional means.
Twenty-six agents, perhaps even 30, sent to assassinate one person? Granted if they could flee the scene by sea, how could one think that Mossad agents would take cover in Iran? I ask myself. Even if they have unprecedented self confidence the likes of which are unknown?

For a couple of weeks now, the media and European governments have been eating up every morsel tossed to them by Dubai's chief of police. (There's no skepticism in this post at the LA Times yesterday.)

Of course if the Mossad has an army of a million Davids sparing a couple of dozen to whack Mabhouh and having a few more to sabotage the shark tank doesn't seem so unreasonable. Does it?

Crossposted on Yourish.

Posted by SoccerDad at February 26, 2010 12:14 AM

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