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Wednesday, February 24, 2010 LONDON: Britain and Ireland were Wednesday contacting the holders of passports newly suspected of being used by the killers of a top Hamas figure in Dubai, as London said it expected "full Israeli cooperation." Police said they were now seeking 26 suspects over the killing of Mahmud al-Mabhuh on January 20. These included 15 new names including six British and three Irish passport holders. The chief of police in Dubai has said he is almost certain that Israeli secret service Mossad was behind the death of Mabhuh, a founder of Hamas's armed wing. "We can confirm that six more UK passports have been identified, we will seek to make contact with these individuals and offer consular assistance as we have the previous individuals," the Foreign Office in London said. "The foreign secretary and others have made clear we expect full Israeli co-operation." Meanwhile, a spokesman for the Irish foreign ministry spokesman s...

Friday, February 19, 2010 DUBAI: Interpol has issued arrest warrants for 11 suspects accused of killing a senior Hamas official in Dubai last month. The warrants were issued after Dubai Police Chief Dahi Khalfan Tamim called on Interpol to issue "a red notice against the head of Mossad… as a killer in case Mossad is proved to be behind the crime, which is likely now." According to Tamim, investigations have revealed that the Israeli spy agency Mossad was behind the murder of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh. “It is 99 percent, if not 100 percent certain that Mossad is behind the murder," he told the United Arab Emirates newspaper The National on Thursday. On Monday, Dubai authorities launched an international manhunt for 11 suspects in the murder of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, who was killed in his hotel room on January 19, hours after he arrived in Dubai from Syria. The Dubai police identified 11 people, 10 men and a woman, suspected of killing the top Hamas official who had surv...