CAIRO – Dubai investigators have collected crime scene DNA samples and fingerprints of
some of the suspects in the high-profile slaying of a Hamas operative, a
senior official said Friday.
In an interview with Al-Jazeera television, Dubai
police chief Lt. Gen. Dahi Khalfan Tamim said the evidence was collected
at the luxury hotel in the Gulf city state where Mahmoud al-Mabhouh was
found dead in his room Jan. 20.
Dubai
authorities have accused Israel’s Mossad spy agency of being behind the
slaying, and have identified at least 26 suspects of the alleged hit
squad that traveled to Dubai on fake identities and forged European and Australian
passports to kill al-Mabhouh.
At least 15 of the suspected killers share names with
Israeli citizens, further fueling suspicions the Mossad was behind the
hit.
Tamim told Al-Jazeera the suspects that entered
al-Mabhouh’s room to kill him left the room tidy and locked the door
from inside — and latched the chain lock — when they left to make it
look like he died in his sleep.
“They made the room look as if there had been no
struggle,” he said. “Everything was in order, as if th… >>>
