The killing of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in Dubai on January 19, 2010, became the most thoroughly filmed intelligence operation in modern history, because the hotel had cameras and the operatives did not account for them. Al-Mabhouh was a senior Hamas military commander. A team of more than two dozen operatives tracked him to his room at the Al Bustan Rotana hotel, entered it, and killed him in a way meant to resemble death by natural causes. Investigators concluded he had been injected with a paralytic and suffocated. Dubai police assembled the hotel's surveillance footage into a detailed public timeline. It showed team members in wigs, hats, and tennis gear moving through corridors and lobbies in coordinated shifts, trailing their target and signaling one another. The operation ran with obvious professionalism, and it was captured almost start to finish on camera. The team traveled on forged and fraudulently obtained passports from Britain, Ireland, France, Germany, and Australia. Every one of those governments summoned the Israeli ambassador in protest. Britain and Australia expelled Israeli diplomats over the theft of their citizens' identities. Every operative left the country before the killing was discovered. None was ever arrested. The hit succeeded and at the same moment handed the world the most complete public record of the tradecraft involved that any service has ever suffered.