Dubai police say Mossad may have killed Hamas chief

Dubai's police chief said he has received death threats from Israel's spy agency Mossad linked to his role in uncovering details of the assassination of a senior Hamas leader, a report said on Thursday.The Arabic-language Al-Ittihad daily quoted Dahi Khalfan as saying he had "received two death threats based on the case of Hamas militant" Mahmud al-Mabhuh's assassination in a Dubai hotel on January 20.The police chief accused Mossad of being behind both threats, the state-owned paper added.

Israeli officials remained doggedly silent on Wednesday in the wake of a Dubai police decision to seek the arrest of the Israeli prime minister and the head of its spy agency over the murder of a top Hamas militant in the Gulf emirate.Neither Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office nor the foreign ministry would comment on Dubai police chief Dahi Khalfan's order for arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Mossad chief Meir Dagan.Khalfan says the hit on Mahmud al-Mabhuh was carried out by Mossad agents using European and Australian passports.

Dubai police questioned on Tuesday two Palestinian suspects in connection with the murder of a top Hamas militant, after naming an 11-member hit team travelling on European passportsThe two men, both residents of the United Arab Emirates, had "fled to Jordan" after Mahmud al-Mabhuh was found dead in a Dubai hotel room last month, police chief Dahi Khalfan told AFP.The pair were extradited from Jordan "three days ago," Khalfan said, adding there was "strong suspicion" that one of the two had met a member of the suspected hit team before the assassination.

Dubai police questioned on Tuesday two Palestinian suspects in connection with the murder of a top Hamas militant, after naming an 11-member hit team travelling on European passportsThe two men, both residents of the United Arab Emirates, had "fled to Jordan" after Mahmud al-Mabhuh was found dead in a Dubai hotel room last month, police chief Dahi Khalfan told AFP.The pair were extradited from Jordan "three days ago," Khalfan said, adding there was "strong suspicion" that one of the two had met a member of the suspected hit team before the assassination.

The hit squad which killed a senior Hamas militant in Dubai last month made use of diplomatic passports, the Gulf emirate's police chief said in a government-owned newspaper on Sunday."There is information that Dubai police will not make public for the moment, especially regarding diplomatic passports" used by some of Mahmud al-Mabhuh's killers to enter Dubai, Lieutenant General Dahi Khalfan told Al-Bayan.Mabhuh, a founder of the armed wing of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, was found dead in his hotel room in Dubai on January 20.

Dubai will issue an arrest warrant for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if Israel is found to be implicated in the murder of a top militant Palestinian in the emirate, The National newspaper reported on Friday.Dubai police chief Dhahi Khalfan has said that Israel's spy agency Mossad could have been behind the January 20 killing of Mahmud al-Mabhuh, a founder of the military wing of the Palestinian movement Hamas, in a luxury hotel room.

Dubai's police chief on Tuesday accused Israel of "vast falsification" of travel documents, noting that dozens of false passports were uncovered following a Hamas leader's murder in the emirate."I ring alarm bells. Israel is falsifying Western passports on a large scale. We discover forged passports on a daily basis," Dahi Khalfan told AFP."The world must stop an operation of vast falsification of official documents (that) a formal body (Israel's spy agency Mossad) is carrying out," he added.

Dubai, where a top Hamas commander was killed in January in an assassination blamed on Israel's Mossad spy agency, is to have security cameras "everywhere," the police chief was quoted as saying on Sunday.The bustling Gulf city currently has 25,000 security cameras, but "surveillance needs to be ramped up to meet the growing requirements of an expanding city," Lieutenant General Dahi Khalfan told The National newspaper.