Tuesday, March 9, 2010

The Impact Of The Dubai Assassination Still Continues



Did The Dubai Assassination Really Help Israel? -- Time Magazine

As more details emerge about the Jan. 19 assassination of a senior Hamas operative in Dubai, it looks increasingly like a badly botched operation. When the Dubai police first announced that the hotel room of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh had been locked from the inside, I dismissed that as an unimportant detail — maybe a way to delay the discovery of his body. But it turns out that the assassins in fact wanted the Dubai police to believe that Mabhouh had died of natural causes, a heart attack. It certainly looked that way at first. He was found in bed, undressed, and his pants were folded on a chair. That impression, though, was upended when the autopsy showed traces of a paralyzing agent in his bloodstream. From what's been pieced together so far, it seems that Mabhouh was incapacitated and then smothered.

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More News On The Assassination Of A Hamas Official In Dubai

Dubai accuses Israel of 'vast falsification' of passports -- AFP
Interpol joins international task force investigating Dubai assassination -- Christian Science Monitor
New suspect named in Dubai assassination -- Times Online
Identity theft case grows as another Australian named -- The Age
Interpol issues 16 new arrest warrants for Dubai killing -- Sydney Morning Herald
Interpol expands search for Dubai killing suspects -- CNN
The Dubai police chief's outlandish claims -- Washington Post
DUBAI: Police chief mocks alleged assassins' 'primitive' disguises, paunches -- L.A. Times
EU passports not that safe, says expert -- EU Observer

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