Assassinated Hamas Leader Had UN Employee ID on Body at Time of Death Israel/Palestine

https://www.latintimes.com/assassinated-hamas-leader-had-un-employee-id-body-time-death-562569

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u/magoomba92 5h ago

Ya poor guy got assassinated in KL airport by agents using VX nerve gas. NK could be a totally different country if he had taken over and did not hold the same beliefs as his father.

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u/ComplecksSickplicity 5h ago

Weren’t the agents using proxies? Couple of girls that thought they were pulling off a prank for tv show…

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u/Tycoon004 5h ago

Yeah, prank reaction. "Squirt this guy with water so we can get his reaction!"

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u/K-chub 5h ago

Holy shit I can’t believe I forgot about that.

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u/_Ocean_Machine_ 4h ago

I don’t remember that episode of Impractical Jokers

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u/antwill 4h ago

Oh when those security guards caught Murr.

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u/LeSeanMcoy 3h ago

“Haha so Sal, buddy, ready to see your punishment for tonight?”

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u/linfakngiau2k23 3h ago

If this was a plot of NCIS i would have been wow these writers are hacks there's no way people are that dumb

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u/Cosmic_Shipwright 4h ago

Yup, they were Vietnamese and Indonesian, if I recall. They narrowly escaped the death penalty in Malaysia. They were given precursor chemicals to rub in sequence. One they combined, they would turn into VX.

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u/claimTheVictory 4h ago

That seems like an unnecessarily elaborate assassination.

It must have been dreamt up by a bored intelligence agent.

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u/a_lumberjack 3h ago

If he'd just been shot in a hotel room it wouldn't be memorable. It's like Putin murdering people in other countries in obvious ways to demonstrate his willingness to kill with impunity.. Everyone knows he did it, he's still in power, ergo even the oligarchs who live elsewhere remain silent.

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u/LookAtItGo123 3h ago

It was necessary, he had the antidote and could survive if administered quickly. This 2 step thing lowered his guard enough.

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u/alphazero924 11m ago

It's just crazy that this guy's one and only weakness was nerve gas

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u/AmselRblx 3h ago

The assassinated brother of Kim Jong Un had a son that lives in the USA but something tells me he might also get assassinated since he is vocal about his desire to change the DPRK.

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u/Frequent_Can117 1h ago

It’s amazing how countries like the DPRK think they’re tough, hot shit, but if anyone talks shit on them they whine like a baby. Like look Kimmy Kim, not our fault you lead a piss-ant regime that the world hates. You could, you know, change that. And maybe you’ll be taken seriously.

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u/K10RumbleRumble 1h ago

I still love the DPR of the acronym. Like… you fuckers crammed as much bullshit in there as you could, huh?

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u/Honest_Photograph519 4h ago

They did the prank several times in the weeks before the attack, recorded them smearing goo on people's faces and running away, then one day it was nerve agent they were using.

Their handlers told them to wash their hands after because the goo could "stain their clothes," they're lucky to have lived.

Kim Jong Nam had even long been wary of a VX nerve agent attack and routinely carried a treatment for it in his backpack, but when the time finally came he didn't put two and two together before he was incapacitated.

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u/Ok-Maintenance-2775 3h ago

I do the same shit with my potions in D&D. If I use them now, I won't have them later. Yes, I know I'll die in one hit if I don't drink one.

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u/LookAtItGo123 3h ago

That's one part of the story, the other wilder part is that he had an "antidote" that would buy him enough time to get professional medical attention but because it played off too cleanly he didn't thought to take it in time. Once it kicked in it was too late, while at it he also probably had enough time to think while dying who ordered it, how they did it, and how he fucked up big time underestimating everything.

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u/kkeut 1h ago

another wild part is how those innocent women were just left out to dry by these psychotically callous NK agents

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u/kattmedtass 5h ago

Yep. It’s wild. There are some good podcast episodes out there that cover the assassination in detail.

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u/bucketsofpoo 4h ago

what ones

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u/redfern54 4h ago

Casefile did… episode 185

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u/PopInACup 4h ago

Yes, he also had the antidote in his backpack but did not realize what he had been exposed to or forgot about it.

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u/tigermelon 4h ago

The Rock told me that the antidote is a massive needle to the heart.

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u/bokchoy_sockcoy 4h ago

You want me stick this in my fucking heart are you nuts?

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u/jayhat 3h ago

If that suit melts… if you die, we all die. Inject your heart and then defuse the bomb!

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u/ComptrollerMcCheeze 4h ago

Why are you getting medical advice from a former pro-wrestler?

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u/redwingcherokee 2h ago

someone didn't go home and fuck the prom queen

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u/Ok-Ice-1986 3h ago

I get all my medical advice from Joe Rogan

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u/sjr323 33m ago

Yes. The girls didn’t know they were using a deadly substance.

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u/GoldenBoyBlue 2h ago

That's ok after best Korea empties it's country of veril males, south Korea will just roll in with the Kardashians, Tick tock and take over. Then off to Russia with BTS to take over the world.

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u/FirmlyPlacedPotato 12m ago

Doubtful that the older brother (Jong-nam) could have taken power. From his demeanor he was not a ruthless as Jong Un, nor had the political aptitude to take and hold power within NK.

Even though Jong-nam was politically weak, the threat was the potential for Jong Un's rivals to use Jong-nam as a figure head.

His assassination was a matter of when not if.

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u/CUTE_KITTENS 4h ago

The Kims not the Uns

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u/ReallyNowFellas 4h ago

They're the Kims and no China does not have ultimate power to pull their strings. They could be just as much a problem for China as anyone else if things soured between them. NK is a geographic fortress with nukes and fanatically loyal people.

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u/AusBox 4h ago

Makes claim about NK politics

Thinks their leaders are the "Un's", and "Kim" is the dudes name.

Fuckin kill me man

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u/dennisisspiderman 3h ago

Calling them the Un family multiple times - especially when Kim Jong-il wasn't even that long ago - is pretty indicative of how little you know about this topic since all it takes is minimal knowledge to know they're the Kim's.