On January 20, 2010 Mahmoud al-Mabhouh was murdered in Dubai. Al-Mabhouh was a founder of the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Islamic Palestinian movement of Hamas. Mahmoud al-Mabhouh arrived in Dubai on January 19 and his body was found in a Dubai hotel, the Al Bustan Rotana, near Dubai International Airport the following afternoon. Al-Mabhouh was drugged and then suffocated to make his death appear natural.
A cable from the embassy of Abu Dhabi sent on February 24, 2010 describes how the MFA Minister of State Gargash made a formal request to the United States Ambassador seeking information about credit card numbers used by the assassins of the Hamas leader. According to this cable, Richard Olson, the U.S. Ambassador to the UAE, gave the information to the FBI and demanded “prompt treatment”. The request was also made in a February 23, 2010 meeting between UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed and Secretary Clinton in Washington.
Fourteen of the suspected murders used MasterCard credit cards issued by MetaBank, in Iowa, to book hotel rooms and pay for air travel. Metabank representatives claimed the cards were issued through a New York based company Payoneer, founded in 2005, which has a research and development facility in Tel Aviv. During an interview on Fox News, Payoneer CEO Yuval Tal described himself as a former Israeli Special Forces commando. Payoneer was funded by an $8 million investment led by Carmel Ventures, based in Herzliya, Israel. Carmel Ventures was founded in 2000 by Shlomo Dovrat and Avi Zeevi. Schlomo Dovrat served in Unit 8200, an elite technology unit of the Israeli Intelligence Corps.
Dubai Police Chief Dahi Khalfan Tamim accused Israel’s spy agency, Mossad, of orchestrating the murder of al-Mabhouh. He stated that all 26 suspects fled the country before al-Mabhouh’s body was found. Each of the suspected murders entered Dubai using fraudulent passports from Britain, Ireland and Australia and most are dual citizens of Israel and other nations. New reports indicate that after al-Mabhouh’s assassination, the ambassadors from Britain, Ireland and Austrailia called Israel’s ambassadors to discuss how the murderers obtained the passports.
On January 29, the Dubai Government media office announced that Dubai police had identified the suspects related to the murder and they would soon track them down.
A cable from the embassy of Abu Dhabi sent on February 24, 2010 describes how the MFA Minister of State Gargash made a formal request to the United States Ambassador seeking information about credit card numbers used by the assassins of the Hamas leader. According to this cable, Richard Olson, the U.S. Ambassador to the UAE, gave the information to the FBI and demanded “prompt treatment”. The request was also made in a February 23, 2010 meeting between UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed and Secretary Clinton in Washington.
Fourteen of the suspected murders used MasterCard credit cards issued by MetaBank, in Iowa, to book hotel rooms and pay for air travel. Metabank representatives claimed the cards were issued through a New York based company Payoneer, founded in 2005, which has a research and development facility in Tel Aviv. During an interview on Fox News, Payoneer CEO Yuval Tal described himself as a former Israeli Special Forces commando. Payoneer was funded by an $8 million investment led by Carmel Ventures, based in Herzliya, Israel. Carmel Ventures was founded in 2000 by Shlomo Dovrat and Avi Zeevi. Schlomo Dovrat served in Unit 8200, an elite technology unit of the Israeli Intelligence Corps.
Dubai Police Chief Dahi Khalfan Tamim accused Israel’s spy agency, Mossad, of orchestrating the murder of al-Mabhouh. He stated that all 26 suspects fled the country before al-Mabhouh’s body was found. Each of the suspected murders entered Dubai using fraudulent passports from Britain, Ireland and Australia and most are dual citizens of Israel and other nations. New reports indicate that after al-Mabhouh’s assassination, the ambassadors from Britain, Ireland and Austrailia called Israel’s ambassadors to discuss how the murderers obtained the passports.
On January 29, the Dubai Government media office announced that Dubai police had identified the suspects related to the murder and they would soon track them down.
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