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23/02/2010
More Passports Linked To Hamas Killing
It has emerged that two more suspects in the killing of an Hamas official in Dubai were carrying Irish passports.
The Department of Foreign Affairs has said it will be following up the reports, with a spokesman saying the Department would be liaising with the Irish Embassy in Abu Dhabi, the British government and the EU in order to confirm the accuracy of the report.
The latest allegations brings the total number of people involved alleged to have been carrying Irish passports connected to the killing to five.
The revelations last week led to an international diplomatic incident.
Hamas' Lieut Gen Dhahi Khalfan Tamim, at a press conference last week in Dubai, said the assassination gang that killed Mr Mabhouh, a senior Hamas figure, was comprised of six British passport holders; three Irish; and the holders of a German and a French passport.
The Lieutenant General then showed the news conference airport surveillance video of the alleged assassination team arriving on separate flights before checking into separate hotels.
In the footage, which also included images from the hotel where al-Mabhouh was killed, the one woman among the group of suspects appears to be wearing a wig and at times wears a big hat and sunglasses. Others were seen apparently posing as tourists, wearing tennis clothes and carrying rackets.
Meanwhile, it has emerged that a vacant property in Dublin was given as an address by one of the five assassination suspects with fake Irish passports.
The property is owned by James Reynolds, a brother of former Taoiseach Albert Reynolds and father of music promoter John Reynolds.
The house has been vacant for ten years but Mr Reynolds has owned the property since the 1960s.
The property's address was given to a hotel in Dubai as the home address of a man travelling under the name of Kevin Daveron.
He was named last week by Dubai police as one of up to 18 suspects implicated in the assassination of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh.
The Reynolds family have denied any knowledge of what happened and described their shock at the revelations.
(DW/GK)
The Department of Foreign Affairs has said it will be following up the reports, with a spokesman saying the Department would be liaising with the Irish Embassy in Abu Dhabi, the British government and the EU in order to confirm the accuracy of the report.
The latest allegations brings the total number of people involved alleged to have been carrying Irish passports connected to the killing to five.
The revelations last week led to an international diplomatic incident.
Hamas' Lieut Gen Dhahi Khalfan Tamim, at a press conference last week in Dubai, said the assassination gang that killed Mr Mabhouh, a senior Hamas figure, was comprised of six British passport holders; three Irish; and the holders of a German and a French passport.
The Lieutenant General then showed the news conference airport surveillance video of the alleged assassination team arriving on separate flights before checking into separate hotels.
In the footage, which also included images from the hotel where al-Mabhouh was killed, the one woman among the group of suspects appears to be wearing a wig and at times wears a big hat and sunglasses. Others were seen apparently posing as tourists, wearing tennis clothes and carrying rackets.
Meanwhile, it has emerged that a vacant property in Dublin was given as an address by one of the five assassination suspects with fake Irish passports.
The property is owned by James Reynolds, a brother of former Taoiseach Albert Reynolds and father of music promoter John Reynolds.
The house has been vacant for ten years but Mr Reynolds has owned the property since the 1960s.
The property's address was given to a hotel in Dubai as the home address of a man travelling under the name of Kevin Daveron.
He was named last week by Dubai police as one of up to 18 suspects implicated in the assassination of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh.
The Reynolds family have denied any knowledge of what happened and described their shock at the revelations.
(DW/GK)
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