Hamas figure murdered in Dubai was drugged

Updated: 16:27, Monday, 1 March 2010

Police in Dubai have said the Hamas figure murdered in a luxury hotel last month had been drugged and then suffocated.

1 of 1Fake passports - Controversy continues
Fake passports - Controversy continues

Dubai suspects the Israeli intelligence agency, Mossad, of being responsible for the death of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, something Tel Aviv has neither confirmed nor denied.

The killing sparked an international diplomatic row after it was revealed that the hit squad used fake Irish and British - as well as other EU and Australian - passports.

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