The Israelis who names appear on the foreign passports used in the assassination of Hamas official Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in Dubai last month are more than a bit surprised, insisting they are not members of the Mossad and were not in Dubai.
British passport officials on Tuesday confirmed the names of the British passports used in the Dubai hit are indeed legitimate, UK citizens living in Israel. British officials have told the media six British passports were used in the Dubai operation, and they are conducting an investigation into the matter.
Interestingly, it is already known that three of the passports used bear the name of Israelis who hold British citizenship as well; Melvyn Adam Mildiner, a resident of Beit Shemesh; Steven Daniel Hodes of Ramat Beit Shemesh; and Paul John Keeley of Kibbutz Nachshulim.
Needless to say when the three saw the names of the assassins appearing in the media they became more than a bit agitated, with the passport numbers and dates of birth matching their correct identities.
Among the names of the assassins are three others that are similar to Israelis with dual citizenship, yet not identical; Jonathan Louis Graham, James Clarke and Michael Bodenheimer.
Other countries whose passports are listed in the affair are conducting investigations, including France and Germany. Ireland has already released a statement that the Irish nationals mentioned by Dubai Police Chief Dahi Khalfan do not exist.
Peter Elvinger, who used a French passport, is described as the team leader.
As was reported on Wednesday (http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/article.php?p=48581) by YWN-Israel, British officials quoted in the Daily Telegraph are looking in the direction of the Mossad Intelligence Agency, directing Dubai investigators to Jerusalem.
In other developments in the case, an Arabic website in the Persian Gulf introduces new information, reporting the assassin squad received intelligence information from a source in Syria.
(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)
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The BBC’s Radio 4 news bulletin has just featured Gordon Brown as saying that the use of forged British passports was “deplorable”.
Surely the Mossad would have learned from the mistakes it made by using forged New Zealand passports last year when it attempted a similar operation in Amman, Jordan – a so-called “friendly neighbor”?
Whichever way you look at the matter,k this is an ‘esek bish’.
i wonder if the ‘identity theft’ was done through the web or through more conventional methods. either way that is spooky and i wouldnt blame them if they felt the need to relocate to a new city or even leave the country.
If it was Hitler that was killed these countries would still cry foul. Instead of apologizing for Dubai providing luxury accomodations for a mass murderer they are focusing on wasting their time on how justice took place. Why don’t they all get up and cry about the death of hitler and stalin? Maybe Argentina should be crying over eichmans abducion. Whoever did this job are all heroes to be celebrated.
I would have been more then happey if they used my passport to kill this animal, be proud.
we have more than a right to defend ourselves. someone needs to think of a new tactic, times running out here, the worlds about to pounce on us again shortly.
it actually looks like an amature news framing to pull israel into the british media.
I cannot agree with Con Coughlin’s opinion that Israel should “come clean” over the death of Hamas military commander Mahmoud al-Mabhouh. Firstly because it is by no means certain that Israel is responsible. There are plenty of people both regionally and internationally who oppose the racketeering terrorists of Hamas. Who knows, perhaps it was an inter-Hamas fall-out?
And secondly, for all people who oppose the terrorists of Hamas it should be of little interest who killed al-Mabhouh. He is dead.
It does seem to me that the media, among others, are getting something terribly wrong here. It is not as though Mabhouh were a UN official or a foreign statesman on a diplomatic visit. Al-Mabhouh lived by terrorism. I cannot see why there should be much international interest in finding his killers. Though obviously Dubai should carry out its investigations and the UK government should ensure UK passports aren’t easy to forge, we knew all that already.
By the way, i wonder how this made all those glad fools in the UK and elsewhere feel – the ones who send money to Hamas thinking they are funding a humanitarian organisation. How did they feel, I wonder, watching this dead racketeer booking into a luxury Dubai hotel?
this was not the work of mossad, it was too sloppy. the people who made this happen wanted to get caught…
i would bet money that this was iran trying to frame israel