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No Israelis Expelled Over New Passport Forgery

A team of British SAS soldiers and diplomats were caught by Libyan rebels carrying explosives and fake passports in a badly bungled first-contact mission. I’m sure the fake passports were high quality and made by…

Pesach Benson
March 7, 2011
12:00 am

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A team of British SAS soldiers and diplomats were caught by Libyan rebels carrying explosives and fake passports in a badly bungled first-contact mission.

I’m sure the fake passports were high quality and made by a state intelligence service. But that’s only an outrage when Israel’s accused.

Memo to London: Next time, bring tennis rackets.

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Tags: Britain, israel, Libya, Mahmoud Mabhouh, Mossad, passport affair, UK

Pesach Benson

A Baltimore native, Pesach was with HonestReporting from 2011 to 2020. He edited the Israel Daily News Stream and authored the e-book, Red Lines: HonestReporting’s 8 Categories of Media Bias. Before moving to Israel in 1995, he worked as a reporter for the Baltimore Jewish Times. Pesach has a B.A. in political science from the University of Maryland-Baltimore County, where he was executive editor of the campus newspaper.

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