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| Dubai murder suspects hiding in Israel: police |
| 2010-03-02 |
| Dubai's police chief said on Monday the suspects in a Hamas chief's assassination in the emirate are now hiding out in Israel to avoid arrest and urged the Jewish state to wage its wars at home. Mahmud al-Mabhuh, a founder of the military wing of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, was found dead in his Dubai hotel room on Jan. 20. Police on Sunday said he had been drugged then suffocated. "I say (the suspects) are in Israel. Israel says they are in Israel," police chief Lt. Gen. Dahi Khalfan told a news conference in the Emirati capital. "If they stay in Israel, they won't be arrested." But "eventually they will leave" and can then be detained, he added, referring to a list of suspects passed on to Interpol. Twelve British, six Irish, four French, three Australian and one German passports were used by 26 named suspects, according to Dubai police, who say they had fled the southern Gulf emirate on flights to Europe and Asia. Police say they are convinced the Israeli spy agency Mossad carried out the Cold War-style hit. Khalfan also said Israel's intelligence agency Mossad has insulted Dubai and countries whose forged passports were used by its agents in the assassination of Mabhouh. "Mossad shouldn't come to us. We haven't done anything to Israel. This is an insult to us, to Britain, to Australia, to Germany and to New Zealand and it's shameful," Khalfan said. Israel has not confirmed or denied it played any role but its foreign minister said there was nothing to link it to the killing. Hamas says Mabhouh played a role in smuggling weapons from Iran into the Gaza Strip, which Hamas runs. The UAE, an Arab state that backs Palestinians seeking an independent state and end to Israeli occupation, has no diplomatic relations with Israel. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #5 ...urged the Jewish state to wage its wars at home. So what was Dead Guy doing in town, chiefy? Figure that one out yet? |
| Posted by: tu3031 2010-03-02 19:11 |
| #4 Omgro, Geez, thanks a lot, I forgot to take off my rationality hat when I talk about this "investigation"....still it's funny to see them running around in circles...maybe the Minister of Security is Mossad...HAH |
| Posted by: Karl Rove 2010-03-02 10:45 |
| #3 Exactly. "We have them on video!" Well, you have somebody on video, anyway. Although I haven't seen any pics of the vic, or his minders, or the thugs he was meeting... |
| Posted by: mojo 2010-03-02 10:40 |
| #2 Karl, you're confusing to things: (i) the action itself & (ii) Dubai "police investigation". Once you grasp that there is no connection, whatsoever, between the two... |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2010-03-02 03:06 |
| #1 Me thinks that this Hamas guy ran into some of his old buddies from Al Fatah. If it was Mossad, it would have been cleaner. I don't think our shadowy Jewish friends would need that many people to take out this clown. Dubai has issued arrest warrants for the entire northern suburbs of Tel Aviv or so it seems... |
| Posted by: Karl Rove 2010-03-02 00:38 |