Interpol

By Clayton Swisher in Middle East on February 17th, 2010
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Update : It is not clear whether this was passport or identity theft.  The 7 dual Israeli citizens claim their passports were never stolen or "lent" to anyone else.
 
As I earlier blogged, the passports used by the alleged killers of Hamas operative Mahmoud al-Mabhouh would be a key piece of forensic evidence.  I must first admit some bias in my thinking as I got some experience investigating passport fraud in my first three years out of college. 
 
By Clayton Swisher in Middle East on January 30th, 2010
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Israeli Mossad is already a strong suspect in the recent killing of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in the United Arab Emirates. The charter member of the al-Qassam Brigades was electrocuted and strangled in his Dubai hotel room, and God knows what happened to him in between. 

Al-Mabhouh's murder evokes a certain sense of deja vu.  Anyone who has read the brilliant work "Kill Khalid:  The Failed Mossad Assassination of Khalid Mishal and the Rise of Hamas" would know exactly what I'm talking about. 

It chronicles how a Mossad hit team posing as Canadian tourists set out on the streets of Amman, Jordan in 1997 to eliminate the Hamas political leader. 

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