Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Agent metropolis Dubai: Oriental Casino

He sought a venue for the new James Bond novel - and immediately Jeffrey Deaver Dubai came to mind, where the Mossad had killed a year ago, a Hamas arms dealer. Now, the U.S. author, has here his book "Carte Blanche" before and asks: How far can go agents? An agent couple descends into a luxury hotel, disguised with a false beard and wig.

They have the license to kill and the mission to kill the most hunted rogue discreet. The operation succeeds, the corpse in the hotel room is only discovered when the agents are sitting back in their planes and - perhaps - a success again Martini drink, shaken, not stirred. It is classic Bond material, what happened exactly a year ago in Dubai and is reconstructed in the current issue of SPIEGEL: The action of the Israeli secret service Mossad against the arms dealer of Hamas, Mahmoud Mabhouh, 19 January 2010.

Almost to the day exactly one year later is presented in a luxury hotel in Dubai, the new James Bond novel. The U.S. author Jeffrey Deaver is sitting in the "Intercontinental", less than 2000 meters distance from the Mossad crime scene, and keeps his work in his hands: "Carte Blanche". Dubai, he says, is "an inspiring and awe-inspiring city and provides a perfect bonding location - especially for a novel that chases our hero to new extremes.

Dubai, the new Casino Oriental, the unreal glittering city on the Dubai Creek, with the highest density of millionaires in the world, the tallest building and a fairly high number of smuggling, money laundering and other daily activities in the life of Dr. No's. The airport here is hub for hundreds of thousands of travelers every day, they come directly from Peshawar, Karachi, Baghdad and Tehran, from Sanaa, Berlin and Shanghai.

80 percent of the people here are foreigners from 202 countries. Through hawala, the compliant nature of the Islamic banking, can be sent discreetly buzz in all corners of the Islamic world. Everywhere in the malls donations boxes are for Islamic relief agencies. Iran is just a shot, and it is an open secret that the Revolutionary Guards have their Handelskont and front companies in Dubai, to provide themselves with everything that makes the State Department concern.

Dubai is unmanageably complex, despite the world's largest iris scan file and despite all the surveillance cameras, which will prevent the local police chief Lt. General Tamim that his city is becoming a global crossroads for all kinds of machinations. In the landmark of the city, the sail-shaped seven-star hotel Burj Al Arab, a Russian mobster murdered a diamond merchant from Syria.

In 2008, the Lebanese pop singer Suzan Tamim (no relative of the top officers of the same name) in her apartment in Dubai stabbed by her lover, an Egyptian cement tycoon. Dubai's rulers have great interest in the book "As I thought about the scene for the new book, I immediately came to mind in Dubai," says Deaver.

"If Ian Fleming were alive, he would certainly have this place for at least one of his books chosen." Deaver is scheduled for March guest of his "Emirates Airline Festival for Literature. The American has been written more than 28 thriller, filmed including the bestseller "The Bone Collector" (Eng.

"The Bone Collector"). In "Carte Blanche" is about the question of how far to go, an agent, and he hot James Bond. It is the question that must also make the Israeli secret service at each of its operations. "When Blanche is in the world of espionage Carte an agent for a mission is given, then connected with the enormous trust.

Every moment is the professional and personal discernment put to the test," says Deaver. "Part of the non-stop tension in the novel is the ever-lurking question of what is acceptable when it comes to national and international security." Deaver says, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al Makhtum, the ruler of Dubai has "great interest" expressed in the book.
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