02/18/10
From AP News
Dubai: Hamas slaying nearly `100 percent'
Mossad
A high profile arab dies violently in a locked
hotel room, so automatically they blame "the Jooos". Personally, I think it was
a drug deal that went bad, or maybe a despondent suicide. Yeah, that's the
ticket! He killed himself!
By BRIAN MURPHY
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - Dubai investigators are nearly "100 percent"
certain that Israel's Mossad spy agency was behind the hit squad slaying of a
Hamas commander, the police chief said as the number of suspects rose Thursday
to 18.
The comments by Lt. Gen. Dahi Khalfan Tamim, which appeared on a
government-owned newspaper Web Site, came as international pressure mounted for
Israel to answer allegations about possible links to last month's slaying of
Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, one of the founders of Hamas' military wing.
The investigation also widened to the United States with Emirates authorities
saying the alleged killers used fraudulent passports to open credit cards
accounts through U.S. banks, an official said.
"Our investigations reveal that Mossad is involved in the murder of al-Mabhouh.
It is 99 percent, if not 100 percent, that Mossad is standing behind the
murder," Tamim was quoted as saying by The National newspaper, which is owned by
the government of Abu Dhabi.
Tamim and other Dubai police officials could not be immediately reached for
further comment.
The international fallout from the murder in a Dubai hotel room showed no signs
of easing, with Britain and Ireland summoning their Israeli ambassadors Thursday
for talks about the case following allegations that European passports were used
in the scheme.
Britain has said it will investigate how some suspects in the assassination of
Mahmoud al-Mabhouh came to have British passports - and how they might have been
forged.
A UAE official, who has close knowledge of the investigation, said at least 18
people - including two women - are now suspects in what Dubai police describe as
a highly coordinated operation to follow and then kill al-Mabhouh.
The list includes 10 men and one woman identified by Dubai police Monday as
members of an assassination team that traveled to Dubai on apparently fraudulent
passports - six from Britain, three from Ireland and one each from Germany and
France.
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Associated Press Writers Steven Gutkin in Jerusalem and Rizek Abdel Jawad in
Gaza contributed to this report.
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This may turn out to be a contract team or someone not connected with Mossad at all. During my years in intelligence, I always looked up to Mossad as probably the best in the world. Better than us and better than the Soviets. Mossad would have left no clues or tracks.
Update: I've learned that he was smothered to death. He deserved something slow and very painful.