dubaisession.com Dubai hunts 'Europeans' for Hamas murder By Wissam Keyrouz (AFP) 4 hours ago DUBAI — Police are hunting 11 suspects with European passports, including a woman, for the murder in a Dubai hotel room of a top militant of the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, the Gulf emirate's police chief said on Monday. The hit team which killed Mahmud al-Mabhuh last month was made up of six British passport holders, three with Irish passports, including the woman, and the holders of a German and a French passport, Dhafi Khalfan said. "We have no doubts that it was 11 people holding these passports, and we regret that they used the travel documents of friendly countries," he told a press conference, describing a rapid and professional hit. While not ruling out "the involvement of (Israel's spy agency) Mossad or other parties in the assassination," Khalfan said the names on the passports had been passed on to Interpol to request arrest warrants. Britain's Foreign Office had no comment about the accusation, while its counterpart in Ireland said Irish diplomats were seeking clarification. Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip, has accused Israel of killing Mabhuh, 50, who was found dead in his luxury hotel room in Dubai on January 20 and vowed revenge. Its members have said that Mabhuh, who was based in Damascus, was on a visit to Dubai to buy weapons for the militant group's armed wing of which he was a founder. Mabhuh, who was born in northern Gaza, confessed to his involvement <b>...</b>
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