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Europe in no rush to follow Dubai killers' trail

World Feb. 28, 2010 - 04:18AM JST ( 10 )

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BadseyFeb. 28, 2010 - 07:48AM JST

Nobody is safe to fly until these terrorists are found and the countries that harbor them are held accountable.
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BeelzebubFeb. 28, 2010 - 08:05AM JST

Nobody is safe to fly until these terrorists are found and the countries that harbor them are held accountable.

Nobody? That's a pretty sweeping statement, isn't it, considering that they went to such elaborate lengths just to kill one man, who happened head the military arm of an organisation designated as terrorist by the US State Department?
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SuperLibFeb. 28, 2010 - 08:16AM JST

What, you mean European tax payers aren't going to spend their money investigating the death of a known terrorist killed in Dubai?
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BadseyFeb. 28, 2010 - 09:18AM JST

When airport security is flawed it effects all of us. -Shocking, and people are wondering how these terrorists are still getting on planes after Billions $ has been spent.

Faked passports, passports that make no sense/mismatched. -not one flag risen anywhere. That is astounding + no accountability. =this is a system that is broken.
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neverknow2Feb. 28, 2010 - 09:26AM JST

Experts say arresting Israeli agents—or even digging up further evidence that Israel was involved—could be politically costly.

This is where I stopped reading.
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HeyLarsFeb. 28, 2010 - 10:03AM JST

When a government works for its citizens, it should be fully in pursuit of a total and full investigation when those citizens' passports are faked and their identity stolen to commit an international crime. It doesn't matter who did it. It may be very unlikely that my identity would be stolen in this way, but its one lottery I don't want to win, and considering what could have happened to those who did win it, no mercy or quarter should be given in the interest of politics. I don't care if it was Israel or the PLO. Whoever did this should be named and shamed at the very least.
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Suzu1Feb. 28, 2010 - 01:30PM JST

The latest information released by the Dubai police is that two of the suspects left Dubai on a boat to Iran.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/25/world/middleeast/25dubai.html

Mahmoud al-Mabhouh was reported to use five different passports in his travels. Wonder which countries those belonged to?
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WilliBFeb. 28, 2010 - 05:11PM JST

There were plenty of parties interested in killing this terrorist, including the rival muslim Al Fatah group (whose leaders he had murdered by having them thrown off roof tops in Gazah).

But of course everybody in the Arab world (and Europe) is happy to blame the Israelis and leave it at that.
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kinnikuFeb. 28, 2010 - 10:54PM JST

Kinda doubt it was the PLO since they don't exist anymore.

Quite frankly, some are saying it is political considerations. I think it is that Europe is in no rush because of the person killed and the plain fact that there is, as of yet, no clear and specific evidence pointing to Israel. As SuperLib pointed out, why would they want to waste resources trying to find out who killed a terrorist, especially when it is possible that he was killed by Hamas themselves? After all, the only people arrested and held so far are Palestinians said to be Hamas members.
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kinnikuFeb. 28, 2010 - 10:55PM JST

Sorry, should have been: Quite frankly, while some are saying it is political considerations, ...