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Titolo: Hit squad electrocuted Hamas leader with lamp to make death look like an accident

a gentile richiesta l'articolo del Daily Mail... :-)
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1252568/Hit-squad-electrocuted-Hamas-leader-lamp-make-death-look-like-accident.html
Hit squad electrocuted Hamas leader with lamp to make death look like an 
accident
By Daniel Boffey
Last updated at 12:51 AM on 21st February 2010
The hit squad behind the assassination of a Hamas commander in a Dubai hotel 
tried to make his death look like an accident by electrocuting him with a 
bedside lamp.
Police sources said the killers, who used fake British passports, tried to 
'induce the effects of a heart attack' before smothering Mahmoud Al-Mabhouh 
with a pillow in his room.
It is understood that the lamp was taken apart and the wiring attached to a 
device that pulsed electricity into his body.
An electric shock can make the heart muscles go into spasm, just as they 
would if a victim suffered from a heart attack brought on by high blood 
pressure.
Police said they found pills used to treat high blood pressure in Al-Mabhouh's 
room.
The revelations come as the row between Israel and Britain reached a new 
pitch amid claims that the fake British passports used by the killers had 
been secretly copied by Tel Aviv airport immigration officials.
The Israeli ambassador to London has been accused of 'stonewalling' all 
attempts to find out how the killers had the passports.
But the Foreign Office has been told that all six of the genuine passport 
holders - all residents in Israel - had their documents briefly taken away 
at the airport during routine checks.
The claims will put fresh pressure on Israel to come clean over any 
involvement in the killing, with investigators in Dubai '99 per cent certain' 
that Israeli intelligence agency Mossad is responsible.
But it was claimed last night that some of the killers may actually be 
British nationals. International security officials say spies tend to use 
'legends' - fake identities - close to their own and it is likely that the 
six killers carrying British passports had some connection with Britain.
Dubai police confirmed they now believe the hit squad tried to make the 
Palestinian's death seem like a heart attack.
When he was discovered by a cleaner and member of security at lunchtime the 
day after his murder, he was wearing only a pair of black shorts under the 
bed sheets.
However, a source said there were tell-tale burn marks on his chest from an 
electric shock.
A later post-mortem showed that he had been killed by suffocation but 
'without the need for violence'.
Earlier this week police unveiled CCTV footage of the assassins' movements 
in the hours before and after Al-Mabhouh's death.
However, a Mail on Sunday investigation can reveal further details of the 
audacious operation.
The 18-strong team had lain in wait for Al-Mabhouh - who was travelling 
under the fake name of Mahmoud Abdul Ra'ouf Mohammed - before tracking him 
down to Dubai's Al Bustan Rotana hotel near the airport.
He had arrived on Emirates flight EK912 from Damascus and had used a fake 
passport.
The killers had planted a tracker device in his rented Toyota Land Cruiser 
and tailed him to his hotel.
Al-Mabhouh, 49, was followed to room 230 by two men in tennis outfits. In 
the few hours before his death, Al-Mabhouh made a visit to the Dubai Mall 
where he bought a pair of shoes.
He returned to his room at 8.24pm and his killers were in place. It is 
believed that he was overpowered by four men shortly afterwards when he 
answered the door.
A woman travelling under the Irish passport of Gail Folliard stood watch 
outside in the corridor.
A source told The Mail on Sunday that the Dubai police are working on the 
theory that the lamp to the right-hand side of Al-Mabhouh's bed was then 
taken apart to provide live wiring which was attached to an unknown device.
However, the source added that because CCTV footage showed the agents were 
there for just 22 minutes, the investigators believed the electric current 
was not used to torture him.
Initial autopsy results show that Al-Mabhouh's cause of death was by 
suffocation with a pillow or another soft object.
The source added: 'Within 25 minutes of the discovery of the body, the hotel 
notified the police. The first attendees were six officers and then a whole 
team came within 40 minutes. The number reached 15.
'He was on the bed on his back covered with the bed sheets up to his neck, 
wearing black shorts.
'Pillows were in place and the room appeared normal with curtains closed. 
Signs of movement to the lamp's wiring was only later discovered. We believe 
the papers he was carrying were copied.'
As they left, the killers mysteriously managed to put the latch and chain on 
the inside of the door.
But investigations by The Mail on Sunday show that the proportions of the 
hotel room make that a simple process for a woman with slender arms.
The startling events of January 20 received global attention last week when 
Dubai police revealed that six of the assassins had been travelling with 
British passports, three with Irish passports and one each from France and 
Germany.
It has since emerged that a further two Irish passports were used.
Yesterday it was reported in the United Arab Emirates that flights for the 
suspected Mossad agents from France, Germany, Italy and Switzerland were 
paid for with fake credit cards carrying the same identities as the fake 
passports.
All but one of the British men whose identity was used have come forward to 
proclaim their innocence and Foreign Secretary David Miliband has called the 
use of fake British passports 'an outrage'.
Residents of Kibbutz Givat Ha'shlosha, in central Israel, claimed the man 
who had not come forward was called James Clarke and that he had gone into 
hiding.
They said he had arrived at the kibbutz as a volunteer, converted to 
Judaism, married an Israeli woman and served in the Israeli army.
Extra officers from the Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA), which is 
leading the British investigation, arrived in Dubai yesterday to work with 
an established team already posted there.

 accident
quindi volevano fargli venire un attacco cardiaco e l'hanno arrostito?
Che pirla...

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mah...in un paio di punti il DM sembrerebbe suggerire in realt� il fatto che 
in qualche modo ci sia stato anche un coinvolgimento di cittadini britannici 
veri e propri...difficile dire in quali termini e a quale livello...A me 
sembra una questione molto confusa di cui difficilmente si pu� fare 
chiarezza con le informazioni che si hanno a disposizione.
Tornando a quello che pu� essere un discorso pi� generale, per quella che � 
la mia impressione, al di l� dei 'mal de panza' di certi ambienti della 
politica inglese, credo che comunque ci sia una certa collaborazione tra i 
ss britannici ed israeliani. Non credo che questa vicenda ne incriner� i 
rapporti.