Thursday, February 18, 2010

Death in Dubai: the plot thickens


Brown calls in police to investigate alleged identity theft by Mossad as Israeli envoy asked to explain how passports were in killers' hands. Assassination team now thought to number 18, including two women

By Kim Sengupta, Ben Lynfield and Donald Macintyre
The Independent

"The international furore over the assassination of a senior Hamas official sharply escalated yesterday with claims that he had been lured to Dubai by the Israeli intelligence services.

Security sources say that Mahmoud al-Mabhouh had changed his travel plans, leaving behind his bodyguards, for a "meeting" which may have been organised by Mossad, [COMMENT: It is obvious from the photos released that he traveled alone with no bodyguards or any attempts to disguise his identity. One photo shows him in front of his hotel room door followed by his would-be assassins. Hello! It does not seem that he was the brightest kid on the block!] who had been tracking him for days before his death......

It also emerged yesterday that there were as many as 18 people, including two women, involved in the murder of Mr Mabhouh, who was said to have been electrocuted and tortured before being suffocated. One line of speculation was that the reason for the relatively prolonged attack, after he was overpowered by four men, was an attempt to seek information........"

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