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Missing link in Dubai assassination: Jordan
There is no rea­son to believe Brian Whitaker's argu­ment that Al-Mabhouh's mur­der will start a diplo­matic row between Israel and Europe. The long assas­si­na­tion his­tory between the Pales­tini­ans and the Israelis never started a diplo­matic cri­sis (UK's Tele­graph tells more about the state spon­sored Israeli assas­si­na­tion team).

In his last para­graph, Robert Fisk says that Dubai author­i­ties have other infor­ma­tion which they have not yet revealed. The world awaits.

No need for a long wait, what Dubai police hides is the following:
Charis­matic char­ac­ter Dhahi Kalfan head of UAE police insists that the pass­ports of the “European-suspects' involved in the assas­si­na­tion are not forgery, and the police keeps copies of these passports.

Dubai police kept one cru­cial thing away from the media: The role of a third coun­try in the murder.

Not a very reli­able source, Kuwaiti news­pa­per Al-Sayassah full of pro­pa­ganda and fake news but you can trust the news­pa­per with this report (Eng­lish) for a sim­ple rea­son; Chief Edi­tor of the news­pa­per Ahmad Al-Jarallah is a close friend of UAE Police Chief Dhahi Kalfan.
Dubai arrested Hamas leader “Nehru Mas­soud' for his con­nec­tion with the assas­si­na­tion of Mah­moud Al-Mabhouh.

What Al-Sayassah news­pa­per delib­er­ately failed to report, is that Nehru Mas­soud is recruited by the Jor­dan­ian Intel­li­gence — specif­i­cally Hamas Depart­ment — A ser­vice, full-time mon­i­tor­ing and follow-up Hamas and the activ­i­ties of  its lead­ers in coor­di­na­tion with sev­eral inter­na­tional secu­rity ser­vices among them the Mossad.

The fam­ily rela­tion between the two coun­tries (Jor­dan and UAE), since Sheikh Moham­mad is mar­ried to King Abdullah's sis­ter, put Jor­dan in a very embar­rass­ing and dif­fi­cult situation.

To solve the sit­u­a­tion, the Jor­dan­ian intel­li­gence handed over two junior Pales­tini­ans offi­cers as scape­goats, but not the head of the Jor­dan­ian — Hamas Depart­ment — who is a Pales­tin­ian high rank Fatah officer.
The two scapegoats fled to Jordan after the attack, but Jordan extradited them right back to UAE. I think the technical term for that is "hanging them out to dry."
Posted by: gromky 2010-02-19
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