DUBAI – The assassination in Dubai of a top Hamas commander two weeks ago was conducted according to methods used by Israeli intelligence and the identities of the suspects will soon be revealed, UAE media reported on Tuesday citing police.
“Very soon we will reveal more information (about the assassination) and reveal the identities and the parties involved,” Lieutenant General Dahi Khalfan Tamim, chief of Dubai Police, was quoted as saying in daily Gulf News.
It is believed that seven men were involved in the murder, which according to the police chief took place inside the hotel room of Hamas commander Mahmud Abdel Rauf al-Mabhuh.
UAE daily the National reported on Tuesday that Tamim said “the criminal method used in the killing of (Mabhuh) is a Mossad method”, the first clear signal by police authorities that is was a political assassination.
Mossad is the Israeli foreign intelligence service.
London’s Times newspaper reported last week that Mabhuh was injected with a drug to induce heart failure. There were no suspicious signs and local doctors diagnosed a heart attack as the cause of death, but nine days later an analysis of blood samples detected traces of poison, the Times reported.
Mabhouh, who was born in the Gaza Strip but had been living in Syria since 1989, was assassinated on Jan 20, a day after he arrived in Dubai.
Hamas has blamed Israel for the killing, which came three days after the visit of Israeli infrastructure minister Uzi Landau to the UAE.
The National reported on Tuesday that Tamim did not disclose any new information on how Mabhuh was killed, adding that initial forensic reports indicate that Mabhuh was given an electric shock before being suffocated.
Police suspect other causes could have contributed to his death, including poisoning, the newspaper reported.
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