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> Saudi Arabia wanted to send ten men on an official assignment to Norway, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirms to Dagbladet. The ten men were all security
by chinathrow 6y ago
> Saudi Arabia wanted to send ten men on an official assignment to Norway, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirms to Dagbladet. The ten men were all security guards, who were deployed to work at the Saudi Arabian embassy in Norway, according to Dagbladet’s sources. But Saudi Arabia wanted the security guards to be registered as diplomats in Norway. This would give them extended room for manoeuvring in Norway.
This sounds like they're amateurs, sending 10 at once. Other nations do that probably one by one to stay under the radar.
- runarb 6y ago> This sounds like they're amateurs, sending 10 at once. > Other nations do that probably one by one to stay under the radar. It depends. For example Mossad allegedly used 26 persons when assassinating Mahmoud Al-Mabhouh: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Mahmoud_Al-Mabhouh https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Mahmoud_Al-Ma...
- bryanrasmussen 6y ago>The Dubai police found that 12 of the suspects used British passports, along with six Irish, four French, one German, and three Australian passports. Interpol and the Dubai police believed that the suspects stole the identities of real people, mostly Israeli dual citizens. It doesn't sound like they necessarily came in at the same time though.
- chinathrow 6y agoMy comment was about the time they wanted to cross borders, not for a (suspected) attack.
- moogly 6y agoAnd 15 to murder (the completely innocent) Ahmed Bouchiki in Norway 1973: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lillehammer_affair https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lillehammer_affair
- vidarh 6y agoPartly being amateurs, partly arrogance, I'd presume. If they're used to getting their way, it might not have struck them as necessary to be subtle.
- thelittleone 6y agoBelingcat reported 2 teams of either 6 each or in total for the attempted hit in Navalny. https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/2020/12/14/navalny-fsb-methodology/ https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/2020/12/14/navalny-fsb-...
- chinathrow 6y agoSame here, my comment was not about the head count on an attack per se but about the time they wanted to enter the country/start working at the embassy.