- MB News
- February 25, 2010
- 2 minutes read
14 of Hamas murder team used ‘real’ Israeli IDs
Dubai police released 15 further names, possible stolen passport identities, of a gang believed to have murdered Mabhouh in a hotel in the emirate on February 20
The case has sparked outrage in Britain, Ireland and other states whose citizens had their identities stolen by the assassination gang
The chief of Dubai’s police has said he is “99-per-cent, if not 100-per-cent” certain that Israel’s intelligence agency, the Mossad, was responsible for the murder of al-Mabhouh, who was found strangled in his hotel room on February 20. However Israel’s Mossad still deny complete responsibility
A number of the individuals whose identities have shown up on the Dubai police’s suspect list expressed shock Thursday
Mark Daniel Sklar, a 51-year-old security guard from Bat Yam south of Tel Aviv, whose name was used in an allegedly forged British passport that gives his age as 30, said he did not own a British passport
Melvyn Adam Mildiner, named on the Dubai list, alleged that his passport was still in his possession
Israel’s ambassador to Canberra was ordered Thursday to help explain how three Australian passports came to be used by the assassination gang. Investigations are still continuing