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DUBAI | Sat Feb 20, 2010 1:04pm EST

DUBAI (Reuters) - New evidence incriminating Israel's spy agency in the assassination of a Hamas commander in Dubai includes credit card payments and phone calls made by suspects, an Arabic-language daily reported on Saturday.

Police have already said the 11 suspects used forged passports in the names of innocent individuals of several European nationalities.

"Dubai police have information confirming that the suspects purchased travel tickets from companies in other countries with credit cards carrying the same names we have publicized (in the passports)," Al Bayan daily on Saturday quoted Dubai police chief Dahi Khalfan Tamim as saying.

It did not give further details.

Palestinian Mahmoud al-Mabhouh was found dead in his room in a luxury Dubai hotel on January 20, a day after arriving in the emirate.

Dubai police have released photographs of the 11 suspects. The international criminal police organization Interpol said on Thursday it had issued "red notices" for their arrest in any of its 188 member countries.

Dubai's police chief said on Thursday he believed Israeli agents were responsible for killing al-Mabhouh, a senior member of the Islamist group which rules Gaza, and called for the Mossad spy agency's chief to be arrested if its responsibility was proved.

Britain offered on Friday new passports to six British citizens whose identities were used by the suspects and all of whom live in Israel, to protect them from inadvertent arrest through Interpol.

Other suspects identified by Dubai used cloned passports from Ireland, France and Germany.

(Reporting by Tamara Walid; editing by Andrew Roche)
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arky wrote:
The bold headline says Mossad implicated but offers zero details of how they were implicated? Of course the people used the same names for passports and credit cards. How does that implicated the Mossad?

Feb 20, 2010 9:45am EST  --  Report as abuse
screennamename wrote:
What exacatly would the concequences be if an arab hit squad had killed and tortured an Isreal in the same manner??? I am pretty sure the european states would be up in arms about it! But instead we resort to idle threats and silence… is there nothing the Isreal’s can not get away with?!? And as for the Hammas leader being an evil, murderer… i would argue the same for many an isreal’s and mossad agent!

Feb 20, 2010 10:13am EST  --  Report as abuse
erniesd76 wrote:
Mossad would never be this clumsy. I would wager that this may have been done by other enemies of al-Mabhouh. All that has been reported to-date is speculation.

Feb 20, 2010 10:38am EST  --  Report as abuse
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