UK: Israel Behind Passport Forgery in Dubai Killing

March 23, 2010

March 23, 2010

This is an update on the assasination of Mahmud al-Mabhouh in a Dubai hotel room on January 20. Our past story about it is here, along with video.

Video from the stories below  may be found here from CNN.

From CNN:

London, England (CNN) – There are “compelling reasons” to believe the Israeli government was responsible for forging British passports used in a plot to kill a Hamas leader in the United Arab Emirates earlier this year, British Foreign Secretary David Miliband said Tuesday.

“Such misuse of British passports is intolerable,” Miliband said, adding that the fact that Israel was an ally of the United Kingdom “only adds insult to injury.”

The passports were “copied from genuine British passports” in a “highly sophisticated operation,” indicating a government was behind it, Miliband told the House of Commons.

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Fake Passports used in Hamas Leader Killing

February 16, 2010
source: Al Jazeera    Feb 16, 2010
 
 Britain and Ireland have said that the passports used by nine people suspected of the killing of a senior Hamas figure in the United Arab Emirates are believed to be fake.

The nine passport holders are alleged members of an 11-person hit squad which Dubai police have said that they want to question over the murder of Mahmud al-Mabhouh in a Dubai hotel room on January 20.A spokesman for Britain’s foreign office said on Tuesday: “We are aware that the holders of six British passports have been named in this case.

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