The Palestinian Information Center
DAMASCUS, (PIC)– Muhammad Nazzal, member of Hamas’s political bureau, accused Mohmmad Dahlan, the leader of the mutiny trend in Fatah, of being involved in the assassination of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in Dubai last month.
In a statement to al-Jazeera.net on Thursday, Nazzal said that the two Palestinians accused of providing logistic support for the assassination team which consisted of at least 11 Mossad spies were Ahmad Hasanin, who is a former member of the Palestinian Mukhabarat (intelligence) and Anwar Shuhaiber, a former officer of the Palestinian “preventive security”. Both men work in Dubai for a real estate company owned by Muhammad Dahlan.
Hasanin and Shuhaiber worked for PA security apparatuses in the Gaza Strip before Hamas took over control of the Strip in June 2006.
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Israel has refused to comment on whether it sent the team that killed Mahmoud Mabhouh, a Hamas military commander, but as evidence mounts and Interpol issues warrants, questions are multiplying.
By Borzou Daragahi
The suspects traveled on fraudulent British, Irish, German and French passports. But at least seven of the suspects’ names match those of dual Israeli citizens, who allege that their identities were used to create phony travel papers with others’ photographs.
One of the Israelis said he was considering suing the government.
“What I’ve been going through since two days ago is a terrible nightmare,” repairman Paul John Keeley told the newspaper Yediot Aharonot. “What have they done to me? How did they steal the private information from my passport just like that?”
Ostrovsky said using Western passports of dual Israeli citizens to create false covers was standard practice for the operations division of the Mossad.
“Most of the time they get permission,” he said, in a telephone interview. “I believe at some point, they stopped asking permission.”