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2010-02-20 Arabia

Mabhouh suspects include Fatah men: Hamas

I love it when they eat their own ...
Tomorrow's headline: Mabhouh Suspects include Hamas men: Fatah
No, no. That was yesterday's headline. Tomorrow's headline sez it was Amy Bishop what dunnit.
RAMALLAH -- Hamas claimed Friday that two ex-officers from the rival Fatah organization were involved in the assassination of a Hamas operative in Dubai, and Fatah shot back by insinuating Hamas members were the ones who collaborated with the killers.

The slaying of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in a luxury Dubai hotel room last month has widely been blamed on Israels Mossad spy agency but it also has sparked bitter recriminations among the rival Palestinian factions, which have long competed for influence in the Palestinian territories.

Dubai police unveiled 11 suspects -- 10 men and one woman -- who apparently traveled to Dubai on European passports with real names and authentic data, but possibly altered photos.

A Hamas Web site, the Palestine Information Center, said those two men were former Fatah security officers and current employees of a senior Fatah official, who was not identified. Dubai authorities have not identified the two Palestinians and would not comment Friday. Hamas stopped short of accusing Fatah of collaborating with the Mossad, however. Izzat al-Rishq, a member of Hamas leadership ~~courageously hiding~~ in Damascus, told The Associated Press on Friday that Hamas is "not accusing any party" other than Israel, though he said the agents might have used "small collaborators for logistic issues."

The Hamas Web site identifies the two men as Anwar Shheibar and Ahmad Hassanain. It says they served in Fatahs security services in Gaza, fled the territory in 2006, and currently work for a construction company owned by a high-ranking Fatah official, Mohammed Dahlan.

Dahlan denied any connection to the men or to the killing. "I dont have any companies in Dubai and I dont know these people," he told The Associated Press by telephone from Amman, Jordan.

"Only Hamas knew he (al-Mabhouh) was in Dubai, so its their fault, not the Palestinian Authoritys," he said. "For political reasons Hamas is blaming us for its own internal problems."

A Fatah spokesman also denied the charge. "Hamas is trying by these accusations to cover up the security flaws in the first lines of its leadership," said Adnan Damiri, a spokesman for Palestinian security forces in the Fatah-ruled West Bank. "Hamas is the only one to know the movement of Al-Mabhouh, and from there the information went to the Israelis."

Officials of the Fatah-affiliated Palestinian Authority in the West Bank city of Ramallah said the two men are former members of Fatah who later joined Hamas security forces in Gaza. They said the men were sent to Dubai on Hamas business last month but had no further details.

Posted by Steve White 2010-02-20 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11143 views ] Top

#1 Perhaps the Mossad did a pretty good job of being obvious after all.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2010-02-20 02:33|| 2010-02-20 02:33|| Front Page Top

#2 Actual audio:
"I'm DOCTOR Amy Bishop! Gimme that booster seat, dammit!"
*choke*
*gasp*
"rosebud"

Posted by Frank G 2010-02-20 11:14|| 2010-02-20 11:14|| Front Page Top

#3 This killing wasn't the style of the Mossad. I'm beginning to think it might have been the Moscow Mafia, and someone wrote a bad check. It's been touted as a Mossad hit, probably with a little "help" in the form of green. The Mossad would have used a poison dart while Mahmoud was out walking. At most, use three people, and DON'T leave immediately. Either that, or it was someone else Mahmoud had crossed during his career as a weapons buyer.

Posted by Old Patriot 2010-02-20 13:43|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/ 2010-02-20 13:43|| Front Page Top

#4 Regardless of who was the perp for the al-Mabhouh hit, the world is a better place now, without him. Wonder what level of hell he is at now? Becha he never took the Dante's Inferno quiz.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2010-02-20 15:57|| 2010-02-20 15:57|| Front Page Top

#5 Drudge has a link up saying credit cards used implicate the Mossad. Puhleeeez. Visa from "Bank of Joooos" assigned to Agent Avner?

Posted by Frank G 2010-02-20 16:08|| 2010-02-20 16:08|| Front Page Top

#6 It's Reuters hyperventilating in the headline again, Frank. The article itself only says that the people on the videos used credit cards matching the names on their stolen-identity passports. They aren't even doing original reporting, but merely translating a story from an Arab-language newspaper. Reuters is based in London, and the Brits are happy to be convinced it was the juices wot dunnit, evidence to the contrary be damned.

Posted by trailing wife 2010-02-20 20:26|| 2010-02-20 20:26|| Front Page Top

#7 hence, the puhleeeeez.

Posted by Frank G 2010-02-20 20:28|| 2010-02-20 20:28|| Front Page Top

#8 You use language so much more efficiently than I, Frank. ;-)

Posted by trailing wife 2010-02-20 22:12|| 2010-02-20 22:12|| Front Page Top

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