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Interpol issues warrants for 11 suspects in the assassination of Hamas chief

LONDON — Interpol has launched a search for the killers of a Hamas commander slain in the United Arab Emirates in an assassination being linked to Israel's Mossad.   

Interpol issued warrants for 11 people linked to the Jan. 19 assassination of Hamas procurement chief Mahmoud Al Mabhouh. The police agency, based in Lyon, France, said the 11 suspects used aliases to enter the UAE port of Dubai and kill Al Mabhouh, Middle East Newsline reported.

"Based on close cooperation among our member countries and on information provided by innocent citizens, it is becoming clear that those who carefully planned and carried out the murder of Mahmoud Al Mabhouh most likely used forged or fake European passports of innocent citizens whose identities were stolen," Interpol secretary-general Ronald Noble said on Feb. 18.


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Hamas and the UAE have accused Israel's Mossad of the assassination of Al Mabhouh. The names used by the 11 suspected killers matched those of British and Irish emigrants to Israel who have been living in the Jewish state for the last decade.

The UAE has requested Interpol's help to search for the suspects, filmed in the Dubai hotel in which Al Mabhouh was killed. Interpol issued so-called Red Notices and said it was working closely with UAE and Western governments.

"The decision by Dubai and Interpol to share all existing available information with the international law enforcement community can only help shed light on those who perpetrated and masterminded the attack," Noble said. "In the process it will also help to establish the innocence of the ordinary citizens and even of countries whose identities were stolen and fraudulently used."

The UAE has urged Interpol to also arrest Mossad director Meir Dagan. Dubai police chief Maj. Gen. Dahi Khalfan Tamim said he was 99 percent certain that the Mossad was responsible for Al Mabhouh's death.

"Our investigations reveal that Mossad is involved in the murder of Al Mabhouh," Tamim said

Interpol has urged member-states to be on alert for visitors who resemble the suspects. The suspects were said to have used British, French, German and Irish passports. On Feb. 19, the British newspaper, Daily Mail, said the Mossad had informed Britain's MI6 of an operation against Hamas.

"Authorities in Britain, France, Germany and Ireland, for their part, say they believe the passports from their countries used by the alleged killers were fraudulently altered," Interpol said.



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