News you may have missed #0292 (al-Mabhouh assassination edition #3)
February 21, 2010 4 Comments
- Former Mossad spy says Israel killed al-Mabhouh. Victor Ostrovsky, who worked for the Mossad in the 1980s, says the assassination of Hamas official Mahmound al-Mabhouh last month in Dubai has all the earmarks of a Mossad operation, and was likely sanctioned by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
- UK denies knowledge of Hamas murder plot. The British Foreign Office has denied a news report that the British intelligence service was told in advance that Israeli agents planned to assassinate senior Hamas militant Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, using British passports.
- Anglo-Israeli intelligence co-operation is now in jeopardy. Britain has cut its ties with Mossad in the past –after its London station chief carelessly mislaid a sackful of forged British passports– and will do so again unless Israel can provide a credible defense of its actions, says The Daily Telegraph‘s Con Coughlin.
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here is a summing up of a few ideas on this topic;
http://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/26197/today-in-the-dubai-murder-mystery/?utm_source=Tablet+Magazine+List&utm_campaign=f8d7e39a4a-2_22_2010&utm_medium=email
“More Dubai murder suspects named”
“Investigators in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) say they have identified 15 more suspects in the assassination of a Hamas official at a Dubai luxury hotel last month.
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The new details bring the total number of passports allegedly connected to the hit to 12 British, six Irish, three French, three Australian and one German.”
http://english.aljazeera.net//news/middleeast/2010/02/2010224131750622611.html
Australia now involved.
CNN posts passport pictures of all 26 suspects:
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/02/24/uae.murder.plot/index.html
There is some argument in the comments over whether some of the pictures are of the same people with different disguises.
Note that there are 5 additional women pictured, for a total of 6.
Here’s a flowchart made by Dubai police showing where the suspects came from and how they left Dubai:
Chart reads from left to right.