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    Dubai names suspects wanted for killing of Hamas man

    Police in Dubai are to issue arrest warrants for 11 "agents with European passports" suspected of assassinating a top Hamas official last month.

    Mahmoud al-Mabhouh was murdered in his hotel room in Dubai on 20 January.

    Reports have suggested that he was in Dubai to buy weapons for Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas. It has accused Israeli agents of killing him.

    Dubai's police chief said six of the suspects had British passports, three were Irish, one French and one German.

    The Britons were named as James Leonard Clarke, Stephen Daniel Hodes, Paul John Keeley, Michael Lawrence Barney, Jonathan Lewis Graham and Melvyn Adam Mildiner.

    One of the group was a woman with Irish papers in the name of Gail Folliard. The other Irish suspects were named as Kevin Daveron and Evan Dennings.

    The Foreign and Commonwealth Office and their Irish counterparts have said they are investigating.

    Officials in Dubai said the team appeared to be a professional hit-squad, most likely sponsored by a foreign power, suggesting the team were operating on false documents.

    He showed CCTV footage of the group entering the hotel where Mr Mabhouh was staying.

    At one point the men appear to don wigs and false beards.

    "We do not rule out the involvement of Mossad (the Israeli secret service), but when we arrest those suspects we will know who masterminded it," Lt Gen Dhafi Khalfan Tamim said.

    "We have no doubts that it was 11 people holding these passports, and we regret that they used the travel documents of friendly countries," Lt Gen Tamim said.

    'Suffocated'

    Lt Gen Tamim said the identities had been passed on to Interpol, as part of an official request for international arrest warrants to be issued.

    Mr Mabhouh was electrocuted and suffocated, according to reports last month.

    Lt Gen Tamim said the suspects had followed Mr Mabhouh into Dubai from Syria, where he lived since 1989, before fanning out to stay at different hotels to avoid detection.

    Two Palestinians who aided the team have been arrested, the police said.

    Mr Mabhouh was a founder member of the Izzedine al-Qassam Brigades, and was thought to be behind the kidnap and murder of two Israeli soldiers in 1989 during the first Palestinian Intifada.

    The Izzedine al-Qassam Brigades have been responsible for suicide bombings and rocket attacks across Israel.

    Israel has refused to comment on the accusations its security forces were behind the killing.

    There's a video on the page.
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    Re: Hamas leader killed in Dubai

    Here's a new video of the CCTV footage of that day and it details in brief paragraphs what's going on. It's some of the most awesome actual life footage I've ever seen, if it was just a little bit better it would be straight out of a novel.

    The Dubai police released video they say shows 11 members of an assassination team at work last month in the hours leading up to the killing of a Hamas official in a luxury hotel.


    General rundown -

    1. Mossad agents all check in and out of hotels for what I guess to be regrouping/organizing.
    2. They're original knowledge of where they thought the Hamas guy was staying turns out to be false so they find out what hotel the Hamas guy is staying at and immediately check into that one.
    3. They find out what room he's staying in and book the one right across it.
    4. They wait for him to leave and break into his room.
    5. Hamas guy comes back to his room and is killed. Medical reports said he died from increased blood pressure in the brain.
    6. They all leave the country.

    All in a little under 24 hours.

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      Update | 3:32 p.m. As my colleague Robert Worth reported, Dubai’s police chief said on Monday that an 11-person team of trained killers with European passports carried out the mysterious assassination of a senior Hamas official last month in a Dubai hotel. In addition to releasing the names and photographs of the 11 suspects, the chief, Lt. Gen. Dahi Khalfan al-Tamim, told reporters that security camera video obtained by his investigators showed the team at work in Dubai in the hours leading up to the assassination in a luxury hotel last month.

      On Tuesday, a newspaper Web site in Dubai published the video released by the authorities, which appears to show the suspects following the Hamas official, Mahmoud al-Mabhouh; changing into disguises; and spending a lot of time on the second floor of the hotel where the murder took place. The video, embedded below, was edited by the Dubai police and includes titles that explain their interpretation of the movements of the 11 suspects before, during and after the assassination.

      Readers with less time may want to watch this video report from Al Jazeera, which includes key portions of the footage and shows some of the news conference at which it was presented. Britain’s ITN News reported that the victim’s brother blamed the Israeli intelligence service Mossad for the assassination.

      In a report from Dubai, Alex Thompson of Britain’s Channel 4 News said that authorities there are so outraged by the assassination plot that they have sworn to issue a warrant for the arrest of Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, if the killing can be traced back to Mossad.

      On Tuesday, Emirates News Agency reports, Dubai issued international arrest warrants for the 11 suspects, who all traveled with European passports that appear to have been forged.

      Ireland’s Foreign Ministry issued a statement saying that three of the suspects said to have used Irish passports do not exist, The Irish Times reported. The ministry added that the passport numbers were obviously fake, since they had the wrong number of digits and contained no letters, as genuine Irish documents do.

      According to Julian Borger and Adam Gabbatt of The Guardian, “British officials said today that the British passports used by six suspects in the assassination of a Hamas xcommander in Dubai were forgeries, and that the suspected assassins are not British nationals.”

      German officials told The Associated Press that the number on a passport used by a suspect named Michael Bodenheimer, who traveled to Dubai from Frankfurt and left for Hong Kong three hours after the killing, was too short.

      The French foreign ministry told AFP on Tuesday that it was “not able to confirm the nationality” of the one suspect said to have used a French passport.

      AFP also reports that Dubai police said they are questioning two Palestinians in connection with their investigation. Dubai’s police chief said that both men are residents of the United Arab Emirates who “fled to Jordan” after the killing and were extradited three days ago.

      In Israel, a man with the same name as one of the suspects identified by the Dubai police as a British national who was a member of the team told Reuters that his identity must have been stolen.

      Speaking in British-accented English, Melvyn Adam Mildiner, resident of a town near Jerusalem, told Reuters he had nothing to do with the assassination and had never been to Dubai. “I woke up this morning to a world of fun,” he said in a sarcastic tone, after Israeli newspapers splashed names and photos of the suspects distributed by Dubai.

      “I am obviously angry, upset and scared — any number of things. And I’m looking into what I can do to try to sort things out and clear my name,” he said in a telephone interview.

      Writing in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, Yossi Melman observed that the actions of the 11 suspects shown on the security camera footage were similar to methods apparently used by Israeli intelligence agents. Mr. Melman wrote:

      The Dubai police chief says it is not unlikely that the assassination teams were made up of Mossad agents.

      The bits of information and the camera images suggest methods used by the Mossad that Mishka Ben-David wrote about in detail in his novel “Duet in Beirut.” Ben-David, who served as the intelligence officer for the Caesarea operations branch of the Mossad, insists that his novel is a work of fiction. However, it is obvious to all that the experience he accumulated in the Mossad over the years appears in his book.

      “Duet in Beirut” is very similar to the failed attempt in 1997 to assassinate Hamas politburo chief Khaled Meshal in Jordan. Ben-David describes the Mossad agents changing hotels, changing vehicles, arriving from different destinations, and changing clothes and appearances in order to make identification difficult.
      The Dubai police released video they say shows 11 members of an assassination team at work last month in the hours leading up to the killing of a Hamas official in a luxury hotel.

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      • #4
        Re: Hamas leader killed in Dubai

        Well- this is increasingly looking like a major failure a huge embarrassment for Israel which will make yet another dent in its relations with the rest of the civilized world..... I mean, for heaven's sake, Dubai police cracks the case within a few days with full information about the suspects: that says something about the actual "might" of the Israeli intelligence agency that in the past used to make people shudder from fear. What, it took them 17 agents and an elaborate command center in Austria, to kill one Hamas guy who was going around in Dubai without a single bodyguard ? How incompetent. Anyway, Israel proves time and again what a disgusting bully state it is.

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        • #5
          Re: Hamas leader killed in Dubai

          No, they haven't found out anything. They're only using the names the agents used on their fake passports and they haven't been able to prove it was Mossad. They haven't caught a single person.

          That's why Dubai police aren't saying it's Israel or Mossad. (Even though it obviously is).

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          • #6
            Re: Hamas leader killed in Dubai

            No, they haven't found out anything.
            Actually, I think that is just wishful thinking on your part, having read your views on Israel and Arabs and Muslims. There is ample evidence that the agents were Israeli. It is less of a concern as to *who* those agents were, and whether they will ever be arrested. The Israelis used the *real* identities of their own citizens, with fake passports. That should make Israelis "confident" in how much Israel "protects" THEM .... NOT. Israel uses THEM and their identities to engage in international gangsterism. No amount of wishful thinking can deny the fact that Israel has been owned in a way never before- not even the Lavon Affair is a match for this huge embarrassment. Professional ? Hardly. They now look more like amateurs. Another dent in Israel's image around the world, and in Israelis' confidence in the competence of their so-called intelligence agency. And now, to make up for the embarrassment, Israel "plants" the names of 2 Fateh agents who were allegedly arrested in Jordan of all places (how convenient, given that Jordan is "more Israeli than Israelis themselves") in an Israeli newspaper called Ha'aretz. But then, even that attempt at covering up the embarrassment is pretty lame. I think we can safely conclude today that even Zanzibari secret agents can be trusted to do a clean op in camera-infested Dubai than the Mossad "intelligence" operatives. Looks like they lacked key "intelligence" : that the whole place was camera'd.

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            • #7
              Re: Hamas leader killed in Dubai

              Actually, come to think of it, Dubai police insists, I read, that the passports were actually *NOT* fake ones, while the countries whose passports were used (UK, Ireland anyway) insist they were fake. IF what is being reported in the media, about Dubai police saying the passports were not fake, was really ANNOUNCED by Dubai police, I would believe Dubai police's word more readily than the claims of those countries. Dubai police have proven that they are competent. Moreover, they would *not* say anything that is bound to embarrass them later on and derail the entire case they have cracked!!! So, one of the two parties is lying or making false claims, and I am inclined to believe that the liars are the British and Irish authorities. It is in their interest to lie - maybe they had a hand in it, or maybe they don't want to create a full-blown crisis between their countries and Israel. Or some other reason. Anyway, according to the media anyway, Dubai police have stated that they are sure the passports are not fake and that their airport security personnel were all trained by British and Irish authorities on how to detect fake British and Irish passports. Anyway, this is getting more and more intriguing. Interpol has issued arrest warrants for the 11 people named, and Israeli media reports in its Hebrew versions and not English ones, that the named people have disappeared from the kibbutzes and towns they lived in.
              Last edited by Sassun; 02-18-2010, 11:41 AM.

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              • #8
                Re: Hamas leader killed in Dubai

                Arrest head of Mossad, Dubai police chief says

                An international arrest warrant for the head of Mossad should be issued following the assassination of a Hamas militant in Dubai, the emirate's police chief has said.


                The UK has said the passports they used were fake documents using the identities of British nationals all living in Israel, while Ireland said that it had never issued passports in the names of those implicated in the assassination.

                But Dubai police insist the European passports were not fakes, according to a report in the local Al-Bayan newspaper.

                "Dubai police has more evidence, apart from the tapes and photos that were revealed earlier," police chief Dahi Khalfan was quoted as saying. "The coming days will carry more surprises which will leave no room for doubt."

                He said that Dubai immigration officers were "trained" by European security experts to spot such fake passports.

                "This training qualifies immigration officers to spot fake passports. They applied these procedures at Dubai airport when the alleged (killers) entered the country," he said. "No forgery was found in those passports."

                http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...n-outrage.html

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                • #9
                  Re: Hamas leader killed in Dubai

                  Confirmed on the Dubai Police website:

                  The passports used by the assassins of the Hamas Commander, Mahmoud Al Mabhouh, were not fake, said the Dubai Police Commander-in Chief, Lieutenant General Dhahi Khalfan Tamim.

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                  • #10
                    Re: Hamas leader killed in Dubai

                    I don't know what you're saying going on and on about nothing.

                    - The Agents haven't been arrested/caught because they haven't been identified.
                    - The Hamas leader is dead.

                    = Definition of Success.


                    IF the passports/documents were real, then why don't the Dubai police issue warrants for the arrest of those people since they would have their addresses,phone number, etc of their home nations.

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