Is The Harper Government of Canada giving a suspect in the assassination of a Hamas leader killed in the emirate in January refuge here in Canada to keep their Pro Israel masters happy.
Lieutenant General Dahi Khalfan Tamim said on Tuesday that the arrest of a person over the killing of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh was being covered up by Canadian officials.
Dubai's police chief, Dahi Khalfan Tamim, said on Tuesday that Canada had made an arrest in connection with the killing of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, and complained that Canadian authorities were refusing to provide any details.
Assassins killed Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in his Dubai hotel room in a hit widely blamed on Israeli intelligence agents. The large-scale operation involved a ring of suspects who wore disguises and held passports from countries including Britain, France, Germany, and Australia.
A suspected Israeli agent was detained in Poland in August and handed over to Germany, which freed him on bail. The man was suspected of fraudulently obtaining a German passport believed to have been used by a member of the hit squad.
Dubai police accused Israel in February of being behind the hit, a claim echoed by some other governments and which was followed by the expulsion of some Israeli diplomats in several countries. Israel, citing an "ambiguity" policy in intelligence activities, has refused to confirm or deny the allegations.
Al Jazeera's Dan Nolan, reporting from Dubai, said that the conflicting accounts of the arrest have intensified the increasingly troubled relationship between Canada and the emirate.
"These claims are actually the latest step in what is a political storm between the United Arab Emirates and Canada," said Nolan.
The relationship between the two countries soured over BlackBerry services, with the UAE threatening to suspend services for the Canadian-made device unless its maker, Research in Motion (RIM), complied with the country's telecom laws.
RIM signed a deal this week with the UAE to avoid suspension of services to its users, but tensions between Dubai and Canada have been building over other issues.
"The UAE has been negotiating with Canada to get more landing slots for Emirates airline and Etihad airline ... to allow those airlines to fly more frequently into Canada," said Nolan.
Canada granted the airlines only one additional flight per week.
"Soon after that, the UAE reacted by failing to renew a lease which allows the Canadian military to use a base here on Emerati soil as a staging point for their troops who are in Afghanistan," said Nolan.
Calling the tensions between the two countries "an escalating diplomatic and trade war," Nolan also said that a plane carrying Peter McKay, Canada's defence minister, was refused permission to land in the UAE last week.
Has Canada arrested someone and is seeking advice from Israel on what their next steps should be? Has Canada joined their U.S Counterparts and now are operating secret prisons in Canada. Any thing is possible.
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