More suspects named in Dubai murder

Police link five more people to the murder of senior Hamas commander at a hotel.

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Dubai police have named 32 suspects in the killing, but none have been arrested yet [EPA]

Mossad role

Dubai police have already named 27 other people in connection with the killing, and they accuse the Mossad, Israel’s spy agency, of carrying out the murder. Interpol has issued arrest warrants for those 27 suspects.

The Israeli government, which maintains a “policy of ambiguity” on Mossad’s actions, has not confirmed or denied any role.

Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, a Hamas military commander, was killed in his Dubai hotel room on January 20 by a team of assassins.

Police say he was strangledby the killers, who then fled the country. Many of them were captured on security cameras in the hotel and at Dubai International Airport.

The use of foreign passports in the killing sparked a diplomatic row between Israel and several other countries. The British foreign office expelled an Israeli diplomat last monthover the use of British passports in al-Mabhouh’s murder.

But Britain stopped short of linking Mossad to the killing.

Source: Al Jazeera, News Agencies