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Britain to expel Mossad official over Dubai hit passports

Britain will expel Mossad\'s representative at the Israeli embassy in London over the use of forged British passports in the assassination of a Hamas chief in Dubai, the British Daily Telegraph reported on Tuesday.
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March 23, 2010

Britain will expel Mossad’s representative at the Israeli embassy in London over the use of forged British passports in the assassination of a Hamas chief in Dubai, the British Daily Telegraph reported on Tuesday.

Mahmoud al-Mabhouh was killed in January in what Dubai police have said they are near certain was a hit by Israel’s Mossad spy agency.

Dubai authorities have named 27 alleged members of the team that tracked and killed the Palestinian, and said they used fraudulent British, Irish, French, German and Australian passports to enter and depart from Dubai.

Read the full story at HAARETZ.com.

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