Irish Herald: Four Israelis Who Assassinated Hamas Leader Mahmoud Al-Madbouh Carried Irish Passports

Irish Herald:

Four Israelis Who Assassinated Hamas Leader Mahmoud Al-Madbouh Carried Irish Passports

Friday February 05, 2010 22:59 by Saed Bannoura - IMEMC & Agencies

The Irish Herald reported Friday that members of the hit squad that operated in Dubai and killed Hamas leader, Mahmoud Al-Madbouh, 50, carried Irish passports.

The Irish Foreign Ministry is currently investigating the issue in cooperation with the authorities in Dubai.

The United Arab Emirates filed a request to the Interpol to help in uncovering the identity of the hit-squad members and apprehending them.
The authorities in the Emirates said that they will demand the arrest of Israel’s Prime Minister should Israel’s involvement in the issue be proven.

The suspects, including at least one woman, entered the country using Irish passports.

The Irish Herald said that Al-Madbouh, who was killed at his hotel room in Dubai, is said to have been shocked by an electricity weapon that was held to his legs, and was then suffocated or poisoned.

The Herald further stated that police sources in Dubai said that up to seven persons are involved in the assassination, four of them carried Irish passports, and that they fled to a European country.

The police in Dubai did not release the identity of the assassins, but said that the United Arab Emirates is coordinating with the Interpol to have the suspects extradited.

The Irish-Herald further reported that pathologists determined that asphyxiation is the cause of the death, likely with a pillow that was found soaked with blood near his body.

Israel blames Al-Madbouh for the abduction and the killing of two Israeli soldiers in 1989.

Al-Madbouh was assassinated on January 20. He was believed to be in charge of arranging weapon deals for the Hamas movement in Gaza.

Iran and Hamas held Israel responsible for the assassination, but Israel denied involvement and said that he could have been killed by “other Arab factions”, and that he had many enemies.

His brother said that the first attempt on Al-Madbouh’s life was made six months ago, as he was poisoned and was rushed to a local hospital while in a coma.

Al-Madbouh was buried in the Syrian capital, Damascus, where he lived with his family for 20 years.

Mabhouh: Who chooses the path of resistance knows its end

[ 07/02/2010 - 11:17 AM ]

GAZA, (PIC)--

Mahmoud Al-Mabhouh, the Hamas military leader who was assassinated in Dubai city at the hands of the Israeli Mossad agents a couple of weeks ago, had asserted that he chose the path of resistance and he knows what is the end of this path.

In a recorded interview he made with Al-Jazeera satellite channel and published on January 6 this year, Mabhouh, who appeared hiding his face behind his Palestinian Coufiyya, disclosed that the Israeli Mossad was hunting him for nearly two decades after they discovered he was the one behind the capturing of two Israeli soldiers in 1989.

He also revealed that the Israeli Mossad tried to kill him three times, the first was in the Gaza Strip in 1991 after which and at the orders of his superiors he left the Strip; the second, he added, was in the same period the Israeli Mossad assassinated Qassam military leader Ezzuddin Shaikh Khalil in 2004; and the third was after the Mossad killed Hizbullah military chief Emad Mughniyya in Damascus in 2008.

"I know that I am a target for the Mossad but I enjoy a very good security sense but my life is in the Hand of Allah, my Creator, and I know what will be the end of this path that I have chosen", Mabhouh said in the interview.

Moreover, Mabhouh expressed hope that the Palestinian resistance would continue to take revenge on the Israeli occupation for the heinous crimes that they have committed against the Palestinian people.

Mabhouh was one of the founders of the Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas Movement, in the eighties of the past century. He was assassinated at the hands of a Mossad team holding Irish passports in Dubai city on January 20 this year.

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