[Zahra]

Netanyahu faces arrest in Hamas hotel murder if Mossad link proved
Wafa Issa

Last Updated: February 05. 2010 1:03PM UAE / February 5. 2010 9:03AM GMT DUBAI // 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 Mr 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 Mr 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.

The exact methods used in Mr al Mabhouh’s killing have not been revealed. However, initial forensic reports suggested that he was given an electric shock before being suffocated. Further tests are being conducted. Police suspect other factors could have contributed to his death, including poisoning.

Since the beginning of the investigation, authorities have declined to rule out Mossad’s involvement in the killing.

Mr al Mabhouh arrived in the UAE on January 19 about 3.15pm and was dead within five hours, police have said. His assailants had been in the country less than 24 hours before the killing and left before his body was discovered in his hotel, the Al
Bustan Rotana in Al Garhoud, they said.

Mr al Mabhouh, 50, was a founder of Hamas’s military wing, the Ezzedeen al Qassam Brigades. He was wanted by the Israeli government in connection with the kidnappings of two Israeli soldiers in 1989.

Israeli defence officials also said Mr al Mabhouh played “a central role in smuggling weapons from Iran to Gaza militants”.

Israel, as a matter of policy, has refused to comment on the death, but the country’s secret service has been behind many similar assassinations of Palestinian activists since the 1960s.

http://www.thenation.../100209847/1133

[flagbearer]

Interesing. Exactly how will this work if it happens?

Is a state allowed to issue an arrest warrant for the head of another state?

[Zahra]

I don't think this is anything more than a token statement. But any country can waive its diplomatic immunity if it is deemed that a a serious crime (other than espionage) has been committed.

[flagbearer]

Zahra, on 07 February 2010 - 03:34 PM, said:

I don't think this is anything more than a token statement.

Yeah, I thought as much

Zahra, on 07 February 2010 - 03:34 PM, said:

But any country can waive its diplomatic immunity if it is deemed that a a serious crime (other than espionage) has been committed.

Always good to learn something new everyday

[Eye Raki]

Credit where credits due, the Dubai chief has shown some clout, even if it is just a token statement. If Iraqi police chiefs had started this policy from day 1 then half the Iranian, Saudi and Syrian leadership would have Iraqi arrest warrants to their names.

[Sarmad17]

Eye Raki, on 08 February 2010 - 12:20 PM, said:

Credit where credits due, the Dubai chief has shown some clout, even if it is just a token statement. If Iraqi police chiefs had started this policy from day 1 then half the Iranian, Saudi and Syrian leadership would have Iraqi arrest warrants to their names.

Exactly, Token statement or not its the will to say it that other countries are finding hard.
And what about america? saudi is america puppent so it interfers, iran is anti america so it interfers syria is confusing me

[Eye Raki]

Syria had front row seats to the Iraq saga. Saddam, Sayf al-Arab, the thug who ruled with an iron fist for decades, the immortal leader who could not be touched, was swept aside within a few weeks by nothing less than American muscle. To add salt to the gaping wound, American intelligence finally tracked him down and pulled him out of a rat hole like a disease that was waiting to be found.

When that happened everyones position in the Middle-East was compromised. The penny dropped.

[Sarmad17]

Eye Raki, on 09 February 2010 - 01:56 AM, said:

Syria had front row seats to the Iraq saga. Saddam, Sayf al-Arab, the thug who ruled with an iron fist for decades, the immortal leader who could not be touched, was swept aside within a few weeks by nothing less than American muscle. To add salt to the gaping wound, American intelligence finally tracked him down and pulled him out of a rat hole like a disease that was waiting to be found.

When that happened everyones position in the Middle-East was compromised. The penny dropped.

So you can justify everything america did due to those facts and you can forget the rest?