Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: Top EU official: Dubai hit may harm ties with Israel

A senior EU diplomat said on Sunday that Israel's suspected role in
the slaying of a Hamas militant in Dubai and the killers' alleged use
of forged EU passports will harm Israel's relations with the European
bloc.
The official said the passport controversy will be harmful for the way
Israel is treated by the EU since it comes on top of strong criticism
over Israel's 2008 attack on Gaza.
The EU diplomat spoke on condition of anonymity due to the sensitive
topic on Sunday, a day before the EU's 27 foreign ministers are due to
meet in Brussels. Israel's Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman will
also be in Brussels to see EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton,
among others.
Dubai police say at least 11 suspects in the Jan. 19 killing of
Mahmoud
al-Mabhouh used altered British, Irish, French and German passports
Dubai police chief Lt. Gen. Dahi Khalfan Tamim said that the assassins
in Dubai made use of diplomatic passports, the Emirati newspaper Al-
Bayan reported on Sunday.
Tamim also added that some of the assassins were already in Dubai for
at least a year before the assassination, and used the passports in
question.
Earlier on Sunday, a top Emirati official urged European investigators
to launch full-scale probes into how fraudulent passports were used by
a hit squad accused of killing Hamas commander Mahmoud al-Mabhouh.
The U.A.E.'s minister of state for foreign affairs, Anwar Gargash,
said the Gulf country is deeply concerned that the suspected assassins
used expertly doctored passports from nations that don't require
advance U.A.E. visas.
"The U.A.E. is deeply concerned by the fact that passports of close
allies, whose nationals currently enjoy preferential visa waivers,
were illegally used to commit this crime," Gargash said in a
statement, carried by the Emirates' state-run news agency WAM on
Sunday.
Dubai's police chief Tamim has blamed Israel's Mossad secret service.
"The abuse of passports poses a global threat, affecting both
countries' national security as well as the personal security of
travelers," the Emirates' Foreign Minister Sheik Abdullah bin Zayed Al
Nahyan was quoted saying in the same statement.
The statement gave no updates on the investigation, but said the
Emirates' and Dubai authorities continue to scrutinize events that led
to Mabhouh's killing and its aftermath.
The authorities also remain in close contact with the concerned
European governments, the statement added and listed the United
Kingdom, Ireland, France and Germany and Austria.
Emirati officials also said on Sunday that at least two more
fraudulent Irish passports have been linked to the alleged hit squad
accused of killing Mahmoud al-Mabhouh.
Earlier this week, Tamim told reporters in Dubai that the alleged
assassins used foreign cell phone cards to avoid being traced while
calling a command center in Austria.
British ministers believe the forged U.K. passports used by the team
accused of assassinating Mabhouh were secretly copied at Ben-Gurion
airport, the British daily telegraph reported earlier Sunday.
British diplomatic sources said ministers were told in a briefing that
the passport fraud was committed by Israeli immigration officials who
stopped the British nationals, now living in Israel, as they went
through the airport on recent trips.
According to the Telegraph report, officials believe the passport
numbers were photocopied and then used to create new documents used by
the hit squad.
The suspects used the fake passports bearing their own pictures, but
with the names and numbers of innocent Europeans.
All six British passports were not biometric, which means they did not
have a computer chip embedded in them. Experts told the newspaper the
fraud would have been relatively simple to carry out.
The identities of French, German and Irish citizens were also used....
German media have reported that the intelligence services of the
country are certain that the Mossad was involved in the killing and
that the foreign minister demanded that Israel explain why it used a
German passport.
Israel's ambassador to Berlin, Yoram Ben-Ze'ev, was summoned to the
Foreign Ministry, where he was asked about information that can shed
light on the killing of Mabhouh.
http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1151260.html

 The official said the passport controversy 
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