He said he did not know how anybody obtained his U.K. passport, issued in 2001 and never reported lost. Hamas Leader Killed in Dubai - News | Khaleej Times DUBAI Senior Hamas military commander Mahmoud Al Mabhouh, who played a pivotal role in the Palestinian uprising in the 1980s, was. One of the Palestinians -- a man believed to have met, at the airport, the alleged mastermind, a man from France who is seen on closed-circuit television handing him an envelope -- was arrested in Jordan, and led authorities to a second Palestinian. Despite the quick skill exhibited by the murderers, they left behind evidence that will help in tracking them down at earliest, official news agency Wam quoted a security source as saying. The Media Office announcement expressed confidence that the suspects would be tracked down and brought to justice. Al Mabhouh, entered the UAE at 3.15pm on January 19, the Media Office said. Blood on a pillow led police to believe he was suffocated. Dubai, United Arab Emirates (CNN)-- Another person has been added to the list of suspects in the January killing of a Hamas leader in a Dubai hotel, bringing the number of identified suspects to . A bomb in Beirut killed two of its members in December. "Therefore, he traveled alone, and the security guards were slated to join him the next day. France: One passport with the name Peter Elvinger (suspected of being used by the hit squad leader. [19] Khalfan would also suggest that a Hamas associate fed information to Mossad. [21], In March 2010, the British foreign secretary, David Miliband, expelled an Israeli diplomat after the UK's Serious Organised Crime Agency discovered that Israel had forged copies of British passports. The allegations were met with some scepticism in Israel, where at least one former high-ranking Mossad official, Rami Yigal, said the operation did not "look professional". The Dubai police no longer believes in ambiguous or unknown crime, its statement said. We want anyone who is dealing with this case to deal with it as a security case, and not to pay attention to any other consideration. The killers left some of al-Mabhouh's medicine next to his bed in an apparent effort to suggest his death was not suspicious, police said. Greylock, which has offices in the U.S. and Herzliya, Israel, was established by Moshe Mor, a former military intelligence captain in the Israeli army. Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, a senior figure in the military wing of Hamas, was found dead in a hotel room on Jan 20. It is still not known why Mabhouh, who was involved in killing two Israeli soldiers during the first Palestinian uprising in 1989 and, according to Hamas, was still active in the Palestinian. There is no legal justification for the cold-blooded murder of a man who, if alleged to have committed crimes, could have been arrested and charged."[181]. "If the law of the jungle is the system for some countries, in the UAE it is rule of law that governs us, and if leaders of some countries give orders to their intelligence services to kill, this practice is rejected and is a crime in our laws, religion and Islamic traditions," said Lieutenant General Dhahi Khalfan Tamim, Dubai's chief of police. Government officials working as part of the investigation team told CNN that the passports were used in trips to Europe and Asia during the last six months, and some were used to obtain credit cards and rental cars. "We have had cases where Americans decided to go off and participate in operations as mercenaries. Authorities have not said how al-Mabhouh died, but told his family there were signs of electric shocks on his legs, behind his ears, on his genitals and over his heart. Two Palestinians believed to have been involved in the operation are in UAE custody after being handed over by Jordan. [2][3][4][5][6] Interpol and the Dubai police believed that the suspects stole the identities of real people, mostly Israeli dual citizens. [76][94] In the wake of the revelation that passports of British citizens had figured prominently in the operation, the United Kingdom's Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) launched its own investigation into the matter,[95] and plans to interview the first round of British passport holders that had their identities stolen. Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. Ismail Haniya, the leader of the Hamas government in Gaza, kissed Mr. Mabhouhs father on the forehead and described his son as a hero. The CCTV footage showed Daveron appeared to have undergone the most extreme transformation, disappearing from the view of a CCTV camera in a hotel lobby as a bald man in a suit, before reappearing with thick black hair and glasses. [117], Dubai authorities said that one of the two Palestinians held in custody met a suspect in a suspicious place, time and manner, while the second is closely related to him and was found to have already been sentenced to death by one of the Palestinian parties. "[64] All the stolen passports are from countries that do not need visas for the UAE. Al Mabhouh, who was born in the Gaza Strip, had been living in Syria since 1989. Police say it was no more than 10 minutes before the suspects left the room and headed immediately to the airport, where they boarded flights to various cities in Europe and Asia, police said. It took 10 days for the Dubai police to come to the conclusion that al-Mabhouh was assassinated. DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Dubai's police chief said Monday an 11-member hit squad carrying European passports and disguised in wigs, fake beards and tennis clothes was behind the my Mabhuh, one of the founders of Hamas' military wing, was found dead in his hotel room on January 20. Assassinations are rare in Dubai, a polyglot business hub on the Persian Gulf where deposed foreign leaders sometimes sought shelter. [116] The recruitment of Ahmad Hasnin by the Mossad could have been done when he was imprisoned by Israel for a month in June 2007 for his involvement with Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, the military wing for Fatah. Meanwhile, the passports have caused consternation in Israel, where up to seven people are wondering how their names got on the travel documents. Syria and Iran are the main backers of Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip. Ireland said it was unable to find any record of passports being issued with details that have been reported in the UAE. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. All rights reserved. Hamas has ruled Gaza since 2006, but its political leaders are also based in Damascus, Syria. Hamas also has a presence in Lebanon. We are working with the authorities, He said the brigades will respond (against Israel), Al Mabhouh was imprisoned several times by Israeli forces. The assassination of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh (Arabic: , Mamd al-Mab; 14 February 1961 19 January 2010) took place on 19 January 2010, in a hotel room in Dubai. [citation needed] Al-Mabhouh, later, left the hotel and while several of the suspects kept watch, it is thought that (a) suspect(s) tried to gain entry to his room. When Mabhouh arrived in Dubai 15 hours later, police believe his assassins, who were using forged European identities, tracked him to room 230 of the luxury Al-Bustan Rotana hotel, in the heart of the city, killed him, and then departed the country. The two were linked to a Gaza death cell under Dahlan's command, which worked to suppress dissidence among Palestinians. Israel has neither denied nor confirmed it assassinated him. Germany's Interior Ministry also said the five-digit passport number given for the lone German suspect is too short and lacks the letters that now appear on its passports. Al-Mabhouh, one of the founders of Hamas' military wings, had been wanted by Israel for his role in the 1989 kidnapping and killing of two Israeli soldiers on leave something that was acknowledged by Hamas last month. A senior member of the Palestinian militant group Hamas has been found murdered in a Dubai hotel. [19], Dubai police said the assassins spent little time in the emirate, arriving less than a day before the assassination, killing al-Mabhouh between his arrival at 3:15p.m. and 9p.m. that night, and subsequently leaving the country before his discovery. JERUSALEM, July 25 (Reuters) - Israeli troops killed three Palestinian militants who opened fire on them from a car near the occupied West Bank city of . The ambassador of the western country does not want to name the country and the name of the arrested suspect. Turn on desktop notifications for breaking stories about interest? Hamas operatives detained?A former high-ranking Mossad official, Rami Igra, told Israel Army Radio that the assassin "does look professional" as described by Dubai police. [53], Major General Khamis Mattar al-Mazeina as the deputy commander of Dubai's police gave details of the death of al-Mabhouh after forensic tests. The suspects are believed to have left the country before the crime was reported. [179][180], Philip Alston, the UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial killings was quoted by the Los Angeles Times as stating, "If a foreign intelligence agency was responsible for the killing of al-Mabhouh, the matter should clearly be classified as an extrajudicial execution. Investigations show the suspects hold European passports. One month later, another Hamas leader in Gaza, Abdel Aziz al-Rantissi, was killed when two missiles hit his car. Informed Israeli experts said he was also a liaison between Hamas and Iran for weapons smuggling operations into Gaza. Dressed in tennis gear and carrying racquets and balls, the guests who wandered through the lobby of Dubai's al-Bustan Rotana hotel on Jan 19 . Besides Mildiner, the other suspects were identified by Dubai police as Michael Lawrence Barney, James Leonard Clarke, Jonathan Louis Graham, Paul John Keeley and Stephen Daniel Hodes of Britain; Gail Folliard, Evan Dennings and Kevin Daveron of Ireland; Peter Elvinger of France and Michael Bodenheimer of Germany. Mahmoud al Mabhouh holds a picture of his son, a senior Hamas commander killed in Dubai, at his family home in Gaza yesterday. "I am simply in complete shock," one of them, Stephen Daniel Hodes, told CNN. Last month two Hamas officials were killed in a mysterious explosion in southern Beirut, near the headquarters of Hezbollah. Two others followed him once he arrived at the hotel, police said, taking the same elevator dressed as tennis players and ensuring al-Mabhouh was staying in Room 230. A Hamas leader killed in his Dubai hotel room was drugged and then suffocated, according to police. The mastermind was a man identified as French. The use of foreign passports from Britain, Ireland, Australia, France and Germany has caused diplomatic fallout for Israel. Hamas accused agents from Mossad, the Israeli foreign intelligence service, of assassinating Mahmoud al Mabhouh, a . [177] Dahlan and Fatah denied the charges. However, if the evidence presented by Dubai police is believed, Mabhouh's fate was sealed the moment he touched down on UAE territory. Instead, police say the rest of the group used the room to plot the killing and the alleged mastermind left the country before it was carried out. It is 99% if not 100% that Mossad is standing behind the murder. Mr. Mabhouh was buried in Al Yarmouk, a Palestinian camp, near the Syrian capital, on Friday afternoon. "I don't know what is happening. Dubai police have released closed-circuit television footage they claim show members of the alleged hit squad stalking the Hamas commander in his hotel before he was killed. 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[citation needed] The investigators believe that the electronic lock on al-Mabhouh's door may have been reprogrammed and that the killers gained entry to his room this way. [9][114] Hamas claimed that their arrest was evidence linking the Palestinian Authority to the killing, while the Palestinian Authority retorted by accusing the arrested Palestinians of being members of Hamas. Analysts and defense officials in Israel say that Mahmoud Mabhouh, who was found dead in his room in a Dubai luxury hotel on Jan. 20, was the point man for transferring weapons from Iran to Gaza. [99], The photographs of 11 of the suspected killers were added to Interpol's most wanted list on 18 February, with a note specifying that they had been published since the identities adopted by the suspects were faked. Dubai police on Monday named 11 suspects in the case -- 10 men and a woman -- and released their pictures. Republic of Ireland: Three passports with the names Gail Folliard, Kevin Daveron, and Evan Dennings and another three with the names Ivy Brinton, Anna Shauna Clasby, and Chester Halvey. Television images showed large crowds of Palestinians in attendance, as pallbearers carried his coffin, draped in a green Hamas flag. A Hamas commander killed in Dubai was targeted by Israel for his role in smuggling "special weapons" to the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian Islamist group said on Sunday. The tactic of targeting known enemies of Israel on foreign soil receives widespread public support.Mossad's website has seen a recent surge in hits from young Israelis keen to find out more about a career with the agency, otherwise known as The Institute for Intelligence and Special Operations. It is still not known why Mabhouh, who was involved in killing two Israeli soldiers during the first Palestinian uprising in 1989 and, according to Hamas, was still active in the Palestinian militant group, travelled to Dubai. I don't see why, you know, you wouldn't see individual businessmen doing the same thing.". Al Mabhouhs death lengthens Hamas list of what it describes as martyrs, and constitutes another setback for the group, which refuses to abandon its fight against the Jewish state. Dubai police have now named 26 suspects in the plot to kill Mabhouh. An international arrest warrant was issued Tuesday. Half an hour later, in another part of the city, it was claimed that Elvinger called Al-Bustan Rotana to book room 237 which was opposite Mabhouh's room. [110], The Dubai Police has found the DNA of one person and some fingerprints of other persons which are suspected. Israel has refused to comment on the allegations. In a column Tuesday, he wrote that even his mother asked him if he'd been abroad recently. [30], Al-Mabhouh's family said that medical teams who examined his body determined that he died in his hotel room after being strangled and receiving a massive electric shock to the head, and that blood samples examined by a French laboratory confirms that electrocution was the cause of death. [89] An analysis of the assassination in The Jewish Chronicle noted that this, "is the first real piece of information that could link Israel to the operation. Speaking to Reuters in the Syrian capital of Damascus, where Al Mabhouh lived since 1989, Hamas spokesman Izzat Al Rishq confirmed what he called an assassination. The same sources also pointed out an arms dealer could have many enemies, not just Israel. Hamas officials visited the Mabhouh family home in the Jabaliya refugee camp in northern Gaza and vowed to avenge his death. On Wednesday, the French government said the passport from that country also was fraudulent. DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) The alleged leader of the militant wing of a U.S.-based Iranian opposition group went on trial Sunday, state TV reported. [109] He reappeared a day later, however. But their mission, according to Dubai police, was a chilling one: the cold-blooded murder of a top Hamas official. 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The suspects stayed in different hotels, used only cash and did not talk to each other on the phone. [30] Salah Bardawil, a Hamas legislator, said al-Mabhouh put himself at risk by booking his trip online and informing family in Gaza of the telephone number of the hotel at which he would be staying on his trip. But questions remain about who the suspects are -- and who they were working for. After his assassins made an initial sighting at the airport, Dubai police said he was followed to the taxi rank and, later, to the Al-Bustan Rotana hotel. According to the detailed but unverified account given on Monday by Dubai police, the killers began arriving in Dubai shortly after midnight on 19 January. In Tel Aviv a former deputy director of Mossad, Ilan Mizrahi, told the Times of London, "Mossad has been restored to its glory days.". [citation needed] According to surveillance videos, the individual who checked into 237 did not enter the room, but appears to have given the room key to an accomplice in the lobby of the hotel, and immediately left Dubai, prior to the assassination. Al Mazeira said. Dubai police have said the alleged mastermind stayed at a luxury hotel in Dubai, but also booked a room at the al Bustan Rotana hotel, where al-Mabhouh was killed. Osama Hamdan, a Hamas spokesman in Lebanon, said, We will not talk about the details until we have put all the pieces of the puzzle together.. He is thought to have been suffocated. Rishq described Al Mabhouh as an Israeli target since he engineered the capture of Israeli soldiers later killed two decades ago. Dubai Police say they are now certain Israel's spy agency Mossad was behind the killing of Mabhouh on January 20th. CEO Yuval Tal, is a former member of the IDF Special Forces. [22] On 24 May, the Australian government expelled an Israeli diplomat after concluding that there was "no doubt Israel was behind the forgery of four Australian passports" related to the assassination. The Mossad allegedly set up a makeshift command and control center in a hotel in the Bercy neighborhood of Paris equipped with computers and secure phones. By the time Mabhouh arrived in Dubai, all 11 members of the team including the alleged ringleader, a French passport holder who used the name Peter Elvinger were in the country and preparing for his murder, police said. Photograph: AP. [46] Another story reported by Uzi Mahnaimi stated that a hit team murdered al-Mabhouh with a heart-attack inducing drug, then proceeded to take photographs of his documents before leaving. He's accused of planning a 2008 bombing at a mosque that killed 14 people and wounded over 200. [122], On 4 June 2010, Polish police arrested a man at Warsaw airport carrying a false passport with the name Uri Brodsky, who was wanted by German authorities. Al-Mabhouh, according to Hamas, was behind the kidnapping and killing of two Israeli soldiers in 1989. He declined to give their names or further details. [101], Seventeen of the suspects used MasterCards branded by MetaBank of Storm Lake, Iowa but issued by Payoneer Inc which were used to buy their plane tickets in other countries before their arrival in Dubai. Dubai airport officials carried out routine retinal scans on 11 of the suspects sought in the assassination when they entered the country and Dubai police said they would publish the scans through Interpol. Payoneer is held by three venture capital firms: Greylock Partners, Carmel Ventures, and Crossbar Capital. The account presented Monday by Dubai's police chief, Lt. Gen. Dahi Khalfan Tamim, included surveillance video clips from the suspects' airport arrivals to their hasty departures to Europe and Asia before al-Mabhouh's body was found in Room 230 at the Al-Bustan Rotana Hotel near Dubai's international airport. Tamim expressed frustration at the lack of detail: "Why is it that every time an Israeli is involved in a crime, everyone goes mute? She was wearing a stripy sunhat, while his head was hidden beneath a white trilby. 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