Friday, June 25, 2010

Hamas chief assassination suspects hiding in Israel, says police chief

Published: 1:32PM GMT 01 March 2010

Mahmud al-Mabhuh: Hamas arch gangland slaying suspects Mahmud al-Mabhuh was found upheld in his Dubai road house room on Jan twenty Photo: REX

Mahmud al-Mabhuh, a owner of the troops wing of the Palestinian Islamist transformation Hamas, was found upheld in his Dubai road house room on Jan 20. Police have pronounced he had been unperceiving afterwards suffocated.

Lieutenant General Dahi Khalfan, Dubai"s troops chief, said: "I contend (the suspects) are in Israel. Israel says they are in Israel.

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"If they stay in Israel, they won"t be arrested."

But "eventually they will leave, and then, they can be arrested," he added, referring to a list of suspects upheld on to Interpol.

Twelve British, 6 Irish, 4 French, 3 Australian and one German passports were used by twenty-six declared suspects, according to Dubai police, who contend they had fled the southern Gulf emirate on flights to Europe and Asia.

Police contend they are assured the Israeli view group Mossad carried out the Cold War-style hit.

Khalfan additionally called on Israel to quarrel the conflicts on the own soil. "When (Israel) has a conflict, let it salary the fight on the own land, not on the land," he said.

Khalfan additionally pronounced that a 27th think had been identified as a lady who was additionally travelling on an European passport.

Khalfan appealed to the Western five countries whose transport papers were used to concur in Dubai"s investigation.

The review has caused a tactful headache for the Jewish state in that the five countries whose passports were used have all called in Israeli envoys to listen to protests.

Khalfan says the suspects would not have dared used US passports. "I think Israel was frightened of inspiring a strife with the United States that it considers the most appropriate friend," he told Al-Khaleej newspaper.

The Emirati executive bank is assisting to snippet the credit cards used by multiform suspects, Khalfan said. Dubai troops says fourteen cards released by MetaBank of the United States were used.

Israel itself has sought to fool around down the row, observant there is no tough explanation of the involvement. Officials have refused to endorse or repudiate the reports, nonetheless Israeli media see the murdering as the work of Mossad.

Danny Yatom, a former Mossad chief, pronounced on Israel"s armed forces air wave that Western comprehension services additionally targeted "terrorists who bluster their countries," stressing that he was not commenting on the Mabhuh case.