Dubai police announce Mossad as killer of Mabhouh

Dubai’s police chief said in a report on Saturday that his force has evidence incriminating the Mossad in the killing of a Hamas commander in the Persian Gulf emirate last month.

“Among the new evidence available to Dubai police which incriminates the Israeli secret service, the Mossad, and confirms its involvement in the murder … are telephone communications between the culprits who have been detected,” Dhahi Khalfan said in the newspaper Al-Bayan.

Mahmud al-Mabhouh, one of the founders of Hamas’s military wing, was killed in his Dubai hotel room on January 20.

“Dubai police also have reliable information that some perpetrators bought their tickets in other countries using credit cards bearing the same identity revealed previously by the emirate,” he added.

“Therefore, the perpetrators used the same passport in several countries,” Khalfan said, reiterating that “the Mossad is 99 per cent involved” in the assassination of Mabhouh.

Khalfan further urged forming an international commission to prosecute those who were involved in the assassination of Mabhouh.

Tamin also wants Interpol to issue a “red warrant” for the head of Israel’s Mossad, as has been done for the hit squad that targeted Mabhouh, The Times of London reported Thursday.

Tamin told Dubai TV Interpol should issue “a red notice against the head of Mossad … as a killer in case Mossad is proved to be behind the crime, which is likely now.”