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| Britain to expel Israeli diplomat over 'Mossad' assassination in Dubai |
| 2010-03-23 |
| Ron Proser, the Israeli Ambassador to London, was summoned to the Foreign Office on Monday to be told the results of an inquiry into the murder of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, whose body was discovered in a luxury Dubai hotel room on January 20. Several members of the team suspected of killing him were found to be travelling on passports cloned from documents belonging to British citizens living in Israel. Other passports had been stolen from Irish, German, Australian and French citizens. A senior Israeli diplomat would be expelled as a mark of the “anger' within the Government that British passport holders had been put at risk as a result of the operation. A ministerial statement to be made to Parliament on Tuesday will formally name the Israeli security services as responsible for the cloning of up to 15 British passports, which were copied after being taken away by airport officials. The statement will say that it proved impossible to confirm definitively whether Mossad, the Israeli secret intelligence service, was responsible for the operation, with suspicion also resting on the Military Intelligence Directorate. But the probe had determined for certain that the passports were cloned when British citizens passed through airports on their way into Israel, with officials taking them away for “checks' which lasted around 20 minutes. Foreign Office sources expressed frustration that there was little more that could be done to “punish' Israel over the affair. A number of those whose passports were stolen had dual British and Israeli nationality. They include Gabriella Barney, 23, and her father Michael, 54, along with Daniel Marc Schnur, 32, Roy Allan Cannon, 62, Stephen Keith Drake, 54, Mark Daniel Sklar, 30, and Philip Carr, 35. A number of the innocent passport holders have expressed concern and upset that their identities were used for the assassination of a senior Hamas commander, which was carried out by a team of at least 23 operatives. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #10 Gentlemen don't do a great many things, including not taking advantage of the servant girls. Men who are deemed gentlemen by birth, however, have been known to break a great many of those rules when they think they can get away with it. That's why they used to be sent to the Continent or South America or Africa to sow their wild oats. Quite probably the Brits are embarrassed because they thought their passports were copy-proof. They haven't gotten nearly as upset about the number of virgin passports stolen over the years. Of course, those are assumed to be mostly used by illegals, drug dealers, and white slavers... nothing to make a fuss over. |
| Posted by: trailing wife on the other computer 2010-03-23 17:53 |
| #9 I thought gentlemen don't read other peoples' mail? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2010-03-23 15:25 |
| #8 Gentlemen don't use other country's passports. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2010-03-23 15:02 |
| #7 As I recall James Bond always travelled under his own name ... |
| Posted by: Steve White 2010-03-23 14:21 |
| #6 The whole world admires British sense of fair play. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2010-03-23 13:49 |
| #5 Dear British Foreign Office: Leaving aside the fact that the deceased Mr. al-Mabhouh would have been happy to kill all of YOU, if Mossad handled this killing of a moslem in a moslem country, why has so far that moslem country arrested only some clowns from Gaza? You know, moslems? Sincerely, Your American cousin (who, unlike YOU, works from logic, not Jew-hatred) |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2010-03-23 13:38 |
| #4 In Britain as a kid i was fed all this nonsense from the BBC and newspapers that Israel was the bully and the Paelos were just homeless victims! This mindset is still prevalent across Europe.Its only going on sites like this that you learn the truth re Arab/Muslim hatred of other religions which is the source of all the problems in the Middle East!How many Christians/Jews are there left in the Middle East where the three religions were founded? |
| Posted by: Paul2 2010-03-23 13:12 |
| #3 MI6, of course, has never used a falsified passport. It's simply not cricket, y'see. |
| Posted by: mojo 2010-03-23 13:09 |
| #2 Someones head had to roll . Its just not British to be .... Oooh never mind :p |
| Posted by: Oscar 2010-03-23 10:13 |
| #1 Simply another by-product of the feckless practice of 'dual nationality.' |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2010-03-23 09:00 |