Passports used by 'Dubai assassins' not fake

Dubai (PR) The passports used by the assassins of the Hamas Commander, Mahmoud Al Mabhouh, were not fake, said the Dubai Police Commander-in Chief, Lieutenant General Dhahi Khalfan Tamim.

At the same time the Commander-in-Chief said that Dubai Police has more evidence, apart from the tapes and photos that were revealed earlier. Dubai Police has identified eleven people suspected to have been involved in the killing of Al Mabhouh, who was assassinated in a Dubai hotel last month. The suspects include six British nationals, one French, one German and three Irish nationals, including one woman.

Lt. Gen. Tamim pointed out that the European passports used by the team which allegedly killed Mahmud al-Mabhuh last month were not fakes and that Dubai immigration officers were “trained” by European security experts to spot such documents. “This training qualifies immigration officers to spot fake passports. They applied these procedures at Dubai airport when the alleged (killers) entered the country,” he said. “No forgery was found in those passports.”

With Dubai police’s disclosure of the names and photos of the alleged hit team, fingers have been pointed at Israel’s spy agency Mossad and its agents accused of using fake passports of European citizens.

Britain summoned the Israeli ambassador, Ron Prosor, on Thursday to discuss the use of identities apparently stolen from six British citizens living in Israel, the British government said.