Britain probes Israelis over Dubai killing

Spokesman for British Embassy in Tel Aviv says two of its police officers are in the Zionist entity to meet six dual nationals whose British passports were used by Hamas figure’s assassins

Most suspects linked to the murder of a senior Hamas figure are in the Zionist entity, Dubai police said Saturday as their British counterparts were in the Zionist entity to probe the killers’ use of fake passports.

Dubai police chief Dahi Khalfan pointed the finger at Meir Dagan, the head of Zionist secret service Mossad which is widely suspected of carrying out last month’s Cold War-style hit on Mahmud al-Mabhouh in his Dubai hotel room.

Khalfan’s force has published details of 26 suspects together with passport photographs, and has revealed it has DNA proof of the identity at least one of the killers.

“What is sure right now is that the majority of the murderers whose names have been announced… are to be found in the Zionist entity,” he said in comments published in the Arabic-language daily al-Khaleej.

“Dagan and Benjamin Netanyahu will head the list (of an international arrest warrant) if it is proven that Mossad is behind the murder,” the police chief said.

Khalfan said Dubai police had succeeded in identifying the suspects from closed circuit television footage, even though some of the suspects wore wigs during the operation.

A spokesman for the British embassy in Tel Aviv said meanwhile that two of its police officers were in the Zionist entity to investigate the use of fake British passports by Mabhouh’s killers.

“Two British police officers arrived a few days ago to interview British passport holders on the use of false passports” bearing their identities in the case, Rafi Shamir said.

In a related context, Zionist ambassadors in four European countries have been summoned for talks and the European Union has also voiced outrage over the use of fake passports after an earlier list of 11 people was released.