Israeli diplomat expelled over Hamas killing by Magdalena Rosova

An Israeli diplomat was expelled from Britain because of the misuse of British passports in Dubai where the murder of a Hamas leader took place. David Miliband, Foreign Secretary of United Kingdoms, believes the Israeli state was involved in the murder. Expulsion of the Israeli diplomat disappointed Israel's Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman. But the minister told that Israeli state would not retaliate. Miliband said UK had serious reasons that made government believe that Israel was behind the murder of Mahmud al-Mabhuh that happened in January. As a result of the affair Miliband asked a member of the Israeli embassy to withdraw from the UK. Miliband told the go! vernment took that matter extremely seriously and that such misuse of British passports is intolerable. However, he did not specify the compelling reasons that led him to belief that Israel is responsible for misuse of the British passports. Reports in the Times and Telegraph newspapers say that the expelled diplomat was a senior Mossad agent. The British government believes he was chief of Israeli spy agency's station in London. In spite of the fact that Mossad has been widely blamed for the murder of the Hamas chief, Israel do not want to admit that Mossad is guilty. Mossad's expulsion was hailed by Hamas which further hopes that Mossad would be brought to trial. In February Dubai police released photographs and names of people who used misused passports. The suspects used the 12 identities of people from Britain and also of people from Australia, France, Germany and Ireland. In connection with the murder Interpol issued arrest notices for 27 suspects.

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