Evidence confirms Mossad involvement in Dubai hit

Dubai says new evidence, including credit card payments and phone calls made by suspects, confirms the involvement of Israel’s spy agency in the recent assassination of a top Hamas official.

“Dubai police have information confirming that the suspects purchased travel tickets from companies in other countries with credit cards carrying the same names we have publicized (in the passports),” the Arabic-language Al Bayan daily quoted Dubai police chief Dahi Khalfan Tamim as saying on Saturday.

Hamas commander Mahmoud al-Mabhouh was found dead in his room in a luxury Dubai hotel on January 20, a day after arriving in the emirate.

Dubai Police issued arrest warrant for the 11 suspects, including 10 men and a woman, saying the passports they used to enter the United Arab Emirates were issued in European countries.

Six of the suspects carried British passports; three others had Irish passports, while the other two possessed French and German documents.

Dubai police on Thursday called for the head of Mossad to be arrested, if the spy agency was proven to be behind the murder.