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Dubai: We’ll go after Netanyahu if Mossad killed Hamas man

We will issue a warrant for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\'s arrest if it turns out Israeli intelligence was behind last month\'s killing of a Hamas strongman, Army Radio quoted Dubai\'s police commissioner on Thursday.
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February 4, 2010

We will issue a warrant for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s arrest if it turns out Israeli intelligence was behind last month’s killing of a Hamas strongman, Army Radio quoted Dubai’s police commissioner on Thursday.

Dubai’s police chief Dahi Halfan referred to the January 20 assassination of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, who was reportedly responsible for the smuggling of Iranian arms to Gaza.

“Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, will be the first to be wanted for justice as he would have been the one who signed the decision to assassinate [Mahmoud] al Mabhouh in Dubai. We will issue an arrest warrant against him,” Halfan told the U.A.E. site The National.

Read the full story at HAARETZ.com.

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