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| Dubai says 2 Palestinians held over Hamas killing |
| 2010-02-17 |
| [Al Arabiya Latest] Dubai police said Tuesday it is questioning two Palestinians suspected of involvement in the murder of a top Hamas militant, after having named an 11-member hit team travelling on European passports. The two men, both residents of the United Arab Emirates, had "fled to Jordan" after Mahmoud al-Mabhouh was found dead in a Dubai hotel room on Jan. 20, police chief Dahi Khalfan told AFP. He said they were extradited from Jordan "three days ago," pointing to a "strong suspicion" against one of the two who had met a member of the suspected hit team before the assassination. Dubai authorities said they would seek assistance from the global police coordination agency Interpol and press individual nations to hunt down the suspects. Khalfan announced on Monday that police were hunting six British passport holders, three with Irish passports, including a woman, and the holders of a German and a French passport, all of whom had managed to leave the UAE. The Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip, has accused Israel of killing Mabhouh, 50, and vowed revenge. Khalfan did not directly implicate Israel at Monday's news conference on Mabhouh's death. But he noted the possibility that "leaders of certain countries gave orders to their intelligence agents to kill" Mabhouh, one of the founders of Hamas' military wing. Khalfan's account portrayed the suspects as operating with chilling efficiency, arriving in Dubai at different times, checking into different hotels and tailing Mabhouh from the moment of his arrival in Dubai to when he entered his hotel room. Some of the suspects even rode in the same elevator as Mabhouh to verify his room number and later booked a room across the hall, Khalfan said. They paid for all expenses in cash and used different cell phone cards to avoid being traced, Khalfan said. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 ABC News had coverage of this story last night complete with clips from the hotel's security cameras. |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2010-02-17 12:39 |
| #1 I heard that Myboobs was "smothered" quietly in the bathroom ( hold his feet and keep him from kicking so much) of his luxury hotel room. I would have loved to be there. Found him with his face under the tap end of the bathtub and his expensive suit was ruined. |
| Posted by: Threatling 2010-02-17 08:57 |