Nasser, based in Damascus, served as the leading aide to Al Mabhouh. He
said Al Mabhouh supplied Iranian weapons to the Hamas regime in the Gaza
Strip.
"He participated with me in searching for weapons," Nasser told Hamas
radio on March 2.
Nasser's assertion of Arab involvement in the killing of Al Mabhouh has
been echoed by other leading Hamas operatives. The UAE has identified 27
people linked to the assassination, all of them said to have used forged
passports from Britain, Ireland and other European states, Middle East Newsline reported.
"He never stopped thinking about how to fight the occupation [Israel] by
supplying quality weapons to the Palestinian fighters," Nasser said of Al
Mabhouh.
In an interview with the London-based Al Quds Al Arabi daily, Nasser
said Jordan was also believed to have been involved in the killing of Al
Mabhouh. Nasser said Egyptian and Jordanian intelligence agents tracked Al
Mabhouh to the UAE.
"He had possession of dangerous information against Arab regimes trying
to destroy the Hamas resistance," Nasser said
