The assassination of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, the Hamas military commander, had all the elements needed to shoot it to the top of editorial priority lists around the world. There was mystery, political rivalry, stolen identities and most importantly, footage -- 27 minutes of it, all filmed by numerous surveillance cameras around Dubai. Soon after investigations began, Dubai Police declared it was "99 percent certain" that agents of Israel's secret intelligence agency - Mossad - had committed the murder. But reporters looking to Israel for concrete information got none - the official policy on sensitive security issues is one of deliberate ambiguity. Jamal Dajani joins the conversation on Al Jazeera’s Listening Post to examine the trail of clues left by al-Mabhouh's assassins and the changing narratives of media across the world.

The assassination of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, the Hamas military commander, had all the elements needed to shoot it to the top of editorial priority lists around the world. There was mystery, political rivalry, stolen identities and most importantly, footage -- 27 minutes of it, all filmed by numerous surveillance cameras around Dubai. Soon after investigations began, Dubai Police declared it was "99 percent certain" that agents of Israel's secret intelligence agency - Mossad - had committed the murder. But reporters looking to Israel for concrete information got none - the official policy on sensitive security issues is one of deliberate ambiguity. Jamal Dajani joins the conversation on Al Jazeera’s Listening Post to examine the trail of clues left by al-Mabhouh's assassins and the changing narratives of media across the world.