Dubai - Police in Dubai said they have identified five more suspects in the murder of leading Hamas official Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in the Gulf emirate, al-Arabiya TV reported on Friday.
The new suspects carried passports from Britain, France and Australia. The news brought the number of suspects in the case to 32 after police had identified 27 suspects before.
Al-Mabhouh was found suffocated to death in his Dubai hotel room on January 20, in what Dubai authorities called an assassination most probably carried out by Mossad, Israel's intelligence agency.
Israel has declined to confirm or deny the allegation.
The Dubai police have been using immigration records and closed circuit TV footage of the suspects to identify the suspects and their moves before the murder.
Al-Mabhouh's assassination caused diplomatic fallout worldwide, as several countries harshly criticized Israel over the use of faked European passports by the alleged killers, while the UK expelled a top Israeli diplomat based on the same allegation.
Al-Mabhouh, who was 50 years old, was one of the founders of the al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas military wing, and had been living in Syria since the late 1980s, along with several of the group's main figures, including politburo chief Khaled Meshaal.
Source: Earth Times.
Link: http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/322434,report-dubai-identifies-five-new-suspects-in-hamas-killing.html.
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