Ministry of Foreign Affairs

By Clayton Swisher in Middle East on February 17th, 2010
Photo from AFP
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.