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A death squad from Iran today entered the US using stolen/forged passports from a number citizens of European countries with dual-Iranian citizenship and, while there, assassinated an Iranian citizen, a dissident from the Tehran regime visiting the US.

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yo its me
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Originally posted by DrKF
A death squad from Iran today entered the US using stolen/forged passports from a number citizens of European countries with dual-Iranian citizenship and, while there, assassinated an Iranian citizen, a dissident from the Tehran regime visiting the US.

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I heard a bit of this story on the tv from the perspective on one of the people who's identity had been borrowed. Had the passport pictures not been looked at?
People will use any means to get their goals achieved, is my thoughts on this, and if they can use other peoples identity then they will.

utherpendragon

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Originally posted by DrKF
A death squad from Iran today entered the US using stolen/forged passports from a number citizens of European countries with dual-Iranian citizenship and, while there, assassinated an Iranian citizen, a dissident from the Tehran regime visiting the US.

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This sounds strangely familiar

"Imagine for a moment what the reaction would be if Iranian intelligence was almost unversally believed to have assassinated a leader of one of the organisations fighting the Tehran government in a western-friendly state. Then consider how Britain, let alone the US, might respond if the killers had carried out the operation using forged or stolen passports of ­citizens of four European states, including Britain, with dual Iranian nationality"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/feb/18/dubai-hamas-murder-uk-israeli-ambassador

sh76
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Originally posted by DrKF
A death squad from Iran today entered the US using stolen/forged passports from a number citizens of European countries with dual-Iranian citizenship and, while there, assassinated an Iranian citizen, a dissident from the Tehran regime visiting the US.

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Link?

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Originally posted by sh76
Link?
There's no link, he's trying to make a statement of some sort. It seems he's dissatisfied with the reaction on terrorists being assassinated, so he's trying to probe if people would be unhappy with citizens being killed by their own governments inside the U.S. I really don't see how you can compare the two situations, but perhaps he'll enlighten us.

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Originally posted by DrKF
A death squad from Iran today entered the US using stolen/forged passports from a number citizens of European countries with dual-Iranian citizenship and, while there, assassinated an Iranian citizen, a dissident from the Tehran regime visiting the US.

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dissident = terrorist / murderer / illegal arms purchaser?

TerrierJack

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Originally posted by zeeblebot
dissident = terrorist / murderer / illegal arms purchaser?
Freedom fighter?

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losers => dustbin of history?

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Originally posted by DrKF
A death squad from Iran today entered the US using stolen/forged passports from a number citizens of European countries with dual-Iranian citizenship and, while there, assassinated an Iranian citizen, a dissident from the Tehran regime visiting the US.

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Hahaha, I bet it's Israel.

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Originally posted by utherpendragon
[b]This sounds strangely familiar

"Imagine for a moment what the reaction would be if Iranian intelligence was almost unversally believed to have assassinated a leader of one of the organisations fighting the Tehran government in a western-friendly state. Then consider how Britain, let alone the US, might respond if the killers had carried out ...[text shortened]...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/feb/18/dubai-hamas-murder-uk-israeli-ambassador[/b]
this is pretty surprising, I wouldn't expect this sort of plagiarism from DrKF.

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Originally posted by generalissimo
this is pretty surprising, I wouldn't expect this sort of plagiarism from DrKF.
It clearly isn't plagiarism. The 'accusation' from utherpendragon is surely a bit of self-deprecating humour after being being caught red handed cutting and pasting word for word without citing it or providing a link.

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Originally posted by FMF
It clearly isn't plagiarism.
how so?

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Originally posted by generalissimo
how so?
Well it just isn't. It isn't what "plagiarism" is.

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Originally posted by FMF
Well it just isn't. It isn't what "plagiarism" is.
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/plagiarism

"1.(uncountable) The act of plagiarizing: the copying of another person's ideas, text, or other creative work, and presenting it as one's own, especially without permission"

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Originally posted by generalissimo
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/plagiarism

"1.(uncountable) The act of plagiarizing: the copying of another person's ideas, text, or other creative work, and presenting it as one's own, especially without permission"
No.

This is clearly not plagiarism. The OP is a hypothetical question. I am sure it has been asked by people standing around hundreds of thousands of water coolers the world over. No wonder the question was in the Guardian. It was in the local paper here too, using different words of course. It's an obvious question to ask in any debate about what Mossad may or may not have done.

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