Making excuses for the dumb Mossad killing team

The New York Times is very embarrassed for the dumb performance of the Mossad killing team. I noticed that they are barely covering the repercussions and today they reassured the readers that London does not want to make a big deal out of the so-called fake passports (they were real for all we know). So they stumbled on this fellow, who is a propagandist for Saudi and UAE media who helped the times in trying to justify the dumb performance of the Israeli hit team: "The fallout from the killing, and the extensive evidence made public by the Dubai authorities, suggest that a significant increase in the number of surveillance cameras and new passport technology have made such assassinations more difficult than they were in previous decades, said Mustafa Alani, a security analyst at the Gulf Research Center in Dubai. Years ago, operatives could use fake passports that correlated to no real people, but now passports are checked against global databases for authenticity." And then this Alani guy (whose knowledge of strategic matters equals Ethan Bronner's knowledge of cherry tomatoes and drip irrigation) added more praise for Israeli Mossad: "And in the 1970s, Israel paid compensation to the family of a man it had killed in a case of mistaken identity in Norway, Mr. Alani said. In the latest case, the killing went off smoothly, but the assassins failed to escape undetected." Smoothly? If you are talking about killing a Moroccan waiter because the dumb Mossad agents thought that he was Abu Hasan Salami, than that was smooth? Smoothly? Killing him near his pregnant wife around a swimming pool? Smoothly? The top secret Mossad killers were in fact arrested and tried in Norway but were then released. Does this Mustafa Alani guy know how to use google?