Khamis, 28 Oktober 2010
Rabu, 27 Oktober 2010
Isnin, 25 Oktober 2010
How many hitmen?
The line of questioning has changed. It's no longer the speculation on whether Israel's intelligence agency, Mossad was behind the assassination of Hamas leader Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in a Dubai hotel room last month.
The question now, certainly on the lips of journalists, is why does it take at least 26 people to kill one man traveling without a bodyguard?
Fifteen more suspects named by Dubai police Wednesday, although the passports are fraudulent and the names "borrowed."
Dubai's police chief has said he is 99 percent sure Mossad is responsible and that seems good enough for most people. Let me caution though, while not revealing personal opinion, that an arms dealer would likely have enemies.
Trips to Dubai by some suspects for planning purposes started almost a year ago, according to police. They say suspects traveled through eight different countries, including two on Australian passports who left Dubai on a ship to Iran, according to police.
The diagram for the travel routes of the operation stage look like a complicated family tree. The suspects between them covered 10 countries, credit cards were used by 14 different suspects, identities stolen from five different nationalities… again according to Dubai police.
The target - one man who appeared to be in transit, who went shopping for shoes and who had no security.
That's not to make him sound harmless. Hamas has admitted he was behind the kidnapping and killing of two Israeli soldiers in 1989 and Israeli security sources tell me he was a key link between Hamas and Iran when it comes to smuggling arms into Gaza.
But such a huge team still seems excessive to a layman like me who is not privy to the usual etiquette of international assassinations.
This is one of the first times we have been given such an accessible peephole into the murky world of alleged hitmen and women. Maybe that’s why the appetite for details no matter how mundane or distasteful is so great.
A first but maybe also a last. This world of technology we live in as proved by Dubai police could deter the next old-fashioned hit squad picked up on security cameras every step of the way – no matter how good the disguises or how powerful the sponsor.
Posted by: CNN Correspondent, Paula Hancocks
Filed under: General
Filed under: General
UAE unhappy with release of alleged Israeli agent
(CNN) -- The United Arab Emirates on Saturday expressed concern about a German court's decision to release an alleged Israeli agent being investigated in connection with a Hamas leader's murder in Dubai.
The suspected agent, who often uses the alias Uri Brodsky, is under investigation for helping obtain a false German passport allegedly used by one of the killers in January.
The UAE's foreign ministry said it's worried about Brodsky's release on bail and his freedom to return to Israel during the probe, the state-run WAM reported.
Brodsky still faces a possible trial in Germany
"The UAE seeks assurances that Brodsky is in no way connected with the murder of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in Dubai in January of this year," ministry official Abdurahim Al Awadhi said in a statement.
"As this may relate to a serious crime committed in Dubai, the UAE expects full and close cooperation from the German authorities and will continue to pursue the matter through diplomatic channels," the statement said.
Dubai is one of seven emirates within the United Arab Emirates.
Rainer Wolf, a spokesman for the state prosecutor's office in Cologne, Germany, told CNN that the judge decided that keeping Brodsky in custody was excessive considering the severity of the charges and released him on bail.
Brodsky was arrested in Poland two months ago on a European warrant as part of an investigation into the killing.
That warrant accused him on two counts: espionage and forgery. Poland granted Germany's request for extradition but on the condition that it would only be for the forgery charge.
Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, a founding member of the Palestinian group Hamas' military wing, was found dead in January in his hotel room in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. Police believe he was killed the night before and suspect the Mossad, Israel's foreign intelligence unit, was behind the assassination.
Several countries including Ireland, the United Kingdom and Australia have kicked out Israeli diplomats after concluding Israel had probably forged their countries' passports as part of the operation.
Dubai police have identified 33 suspects in al-Mabhouh's killing. Most of the suspects are believed to have acquired faulty passports to go to Dubai and then fled to other far-flung locations, police said.
Israel has maintained there is no proof linking it to the doctored passports or the killing of al-Mabhouh.
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman told Israel Army Radio in March that there is certainly no reason to think that the Mossad and not some other intelligence agency of another country operated there.
Germany releases alleged Israeli agent linked to Dubai murder plot
Berlin, Germany (CNN) -- A German court released Friday an alleged Israeli agent extradited from Poland in connection with a Hamas leader's murder in Dubai.
The suspected agent, who often uses the alias Uri Brodsky, is under investigation for helping obtain a false German passport allegedly used by one of the killers in January.
Brodsky is free to travel and can return to Israel though he still faces a possible trial in Germany.
Rainer Wolf, a spokesman for the state prosecutor's office in Cologne, told CNN that the judge decided that keeping Brodsky in custody was excessive considering the severity of the charges and released him on bail.
Brodsky was arrested in Poland two months ago on a European warrant as part of an investigation into the killing.
That warrant accused him on two counts: espionage and forgery. Poland granted Germany's request for extradition but on the condition that it would only be for the forgery charge.
Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, a founding member of the Palestinian group Hamas' military wing, was found dead in January in his hotel room in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. Police believe he was killed the night before and suspect the Mossad, Israel's foreign intelligence unit, was behind the assassination.
Several countries including Ireland, the United Kingdom and Australia have kicked out Israeli diplomats after concluding Israel had probably forged their countries' passports as part of the operation.
Dubai police have identified 33 suspects in al-Mabhouh's killing. Most of the suspects are believed to have acquired faulty passports to go to Dubai and then fled to other far-flung locations, police said.
Israel has maintained there is no proof linking it to the doctored passports or the killing of al-Mabhouh.
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman told Israel Army Radio in March that there is certainly no reason to think that the Mossad and not some other intelligence agency of another country operated there.
The suspects used British, Irish, French, Australian and German passports. In February, the European Union condemned the use of false EU passports in connection with this case.
Dubai police said toxicology results show al-Mabhouh was injected with succinylcholine, a drug used to relax muscles during surgery or which acts as an anesthetic, before he was suffocated.
There were signs that al-Mabhouh resisted as he was being killed, police said.
Jumaat, 1 Oktober 2010
Dubai police chief receives death threats
DUBAI: Dubai police chief receives death threats from the agency Mossad, revealed the involvement of intelligence for the Jewish state when it published details of the murder of a senior leader of Hamas, here earlier this year.
Arabic language newspaper Al-Ittihad quoted as Dahi Khalfan, said he received two death threats on the murder of senior Hamas leader, Mahmud al-Mabhuh, at a hotel in Dubai, 20 January.
He accused the Mossad was behind the double threat on Tuesday, the official newspaper added. The first threat made in a few days after the suspected killer Khalfan revealed pictures and at the same time accusing the Mossad's involvement in the murder.
Protect yourself if you continue to celupar, the message said, according to the newspaper. Experts in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to detect the source of the message involved, Khalfan said the newspaper without giving further details.
In mid-February, she published the names and photographs of 11 suspects, said the murder of European passports to enter Dubai, six from Britain, three from Ireland and one each from Germany and France.
The second threat, the newspaper said, was a phone call to a relative Khalfan, retired senior officers, from a Western population with dual passports who asked me to advise my brother to keep quiet.
Proved later that the caller is involved Mossad agent who had retired.
Khalfan was also revealed, two days ago, authorities arrested a Western nation involved in the murder suspects
Arabic language newspaper Al-Ittihad quoted as Dahi Khalfan, said he received two death threats on the murder of senior Hamas leader, Mahmud al-Mabhuh, at a hotel in Dubai, 20 January.
He accused the Mossad was behind the double threat on Tuesday, the official newspaper added. The first threat made in a few days after the suspected killer Khalfan revealed pictures and at the same time accusing the Mossad's involvement in the murder.
Protect yourself if you continue to celupar, the message said, according to the newspaper. Experts in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to detect the source of the message involved, Khalfan said the newspaper without giving further details.
In mid-February, she published the names and photographs of 11 suspects, said the murder of European passports to enter Dubai, six from Britain, three from Ireland and one each from Germany and France.
The second threat, the newspaper said, was a phone call to a relative Khalfan, retired senior officers, from a Western population with dual passports who asked me to advise my brother to keep quiet.
Proved later that the caller is involved Mossad agent who had retired.
Khalfan was also revealed, two days ago, authorities arrested a Western nation involved in the murder suspects
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