Thursday, 6 May 2010

Dubai Police Hunt New Suspect in Mabhouh Assassination


06/05/2010 United Arab Emirates officials identified on Thursday five new suspects, including an Israeli, in the probe regarding the killing of Hamas top official Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in Dubai in January, The Wall Street Journal reported.

Quoting a person familiar with the details, one of the suspects in the Dubai investigation could be Zev Barkan, who is wanted in New Zealand for passport fraud, The Journal reported.

Barkan has been sought by New Zealand police since 2004, when two Israelis were sentenced by a New Zealand court to six-month in jail for attempting to obtain a New Zealand passport under fraudulent circumstances.

According to the Journal, the five new suspects carried passports from Britain, Australia and France.

Mahmoud al-Mabhouh was martyred in January when a team of assassins broke into his hotel room and assassinated him silently before photographing all the documents in his briefcase and left a 'do not disturb' sign on the door. The hotel security cameras caught images of the alleged killers sharing an elevator ride with Mabhouh.

Since the killing, Dubai police have identified over 32 suspects, releasing photos of 27 people who were involved in the assassination based on fraud passports

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