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Netanyahu faces arrest in Hamas hotel murder if Mossad link proved
The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, will be at the top of Dubai's wanted list if the Israeli foreign intelligence service Mossad is proven to be behind the killing of a senior Hamas official, the Dubai Police chief said yesterday.
Lt Gen Dahi Khalfan Tamim told The National that "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 kill [Mahmoud] al Mabhouh in Dubai. We will issue an arrest warrant against him."
He did not, however, assert that Mossad was definitively responsible for the killing; Hamas has accused the Israeli agency of killing al Mabhouh.
He was found dead in a Dubai hotel room on January 20, less than a day after arriving in the UAE. No bodyguards accompanied him on the trip, Hamas has said. Gen Tamim had said the method used to kill al Mabhouh was a "Mossad method" but did not elaborate.
He added that Mossad "has carried out operations" in the past using similar procedures. Dubai Police had also earlier said only that the involvement of Mossad could not be ruled out.