Dubai points finger at Mossad over Hamas assassination

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"Officials in Dubai have all but given up hope of catching the killers of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh after admitting that Mossad is its prime suspect.

Even if the assassins were somehow identified, the United Arab Emirates has no diplomatic relations with Israel, let alone judicial co-operation agreements.

Dubai police have never ruled Mossad out of their investigation but have stopped short of accusing Israel’s spy agency directly until now. However, with at least seven of the eleven named suspects in the case now revealed to have used the stolen identities of Israelis with dual nationalities, officials in the Gulf state concede that all the evidence points to a hit ordered by Tel Aviv. The Hamas leader was assassinated in his Dubai hotel room last month

Officials in Dubai have confirmed that the Gulf state is now considering rescinding the 11 international arrest warrants issued on Tuesday, including the six British citizens initially named as suspects.

"All elements strongly indicate the involvement of the Mossad,” Chief of Dubai Police Lieutenant General Dahi Khalfan Tamim told Dubai based daily paper Gulf News."

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"We know it is Israel. We just can't prove it. And, if we could, it wouldn't matter; so why try. There may be other suspects, but we already know who it is, despite not having proof."

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"Interpol should issue a warrant to help locate and arrest the head of Israel's spy agency Mossad if the organization was responsible for the killing of a Hamas militant in Dubai, the emirate's police chief said Thursday.

In comments to be aired later on Dubai TV, police chief Dahi Khalfan Tamim called for Interpol to issue "a red notice against the head of Mossad ... as a killer in case Mossad if proved to be behind the crime, which is likely now."

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