Dubai police chief: Israeli killers should undergo DNA tests
Dahi Khalfan Tamim says he'll resign if DNA data doesn't match evidence from al-Mabhouh murder scene.
By Haaretz Service Tags: Israel Mossad Israel newsDubai police chief Dahi Khalfan Tamim said on Friday that Israel should allow Dubai to conduct DNA tests on Israelis that Dubai suspects of participating in the assassination of senior Hamas operative Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in January.
"I call on Israel to bring the suspects for DNA tests, so it can be compared to DNA found at the scene," Tamim told the Al-Halij newspaper published in the United Arab Emirates. "If the results don't match, I will resign from my post."
A week ago, Dubai police reported that they had DNA from at least one suspected assassin. In an interview with the Al-Arabiya television station, Khalfan said that police also have the fingerprints of additional suspected members of the hit squad.
A Haaretz probe found that the passport photographs of suspected agents who allegedly assassinated al-Mabhouh were doctored so the agents would not be identified.
Various features of the people in the photographs, such as eye color or the line of a lip, were changed - slightly enough so as not arouse suspicion at passport control, but still enough that the real agent could not be recognized.
Why Facebook Connect?
Comment on Haaretz.com articles with your Facebook login, and share your thoughts on your own wall.
- Latest
- Most Viewed
- Most Rated
- Open all
foreskins and all Arab woman can send in there mutilated woman parts as dictated by there ever so wise male half witted leaders for that DNA test
What an irresponsible government and police Dubai is? the world should hold the UAE accountable for its harboring of terrorists and should conducT DNA testing on Police who stand by and allow terrorism!!Also conduct DNA on Arab killers who certainly wanted this monster dead, a killer of children
He found DNA?...in a hotelroom? Is this guy for real? I hope he will find his medication next...and sooner then later I hope.
Me thinks this fella was complicit in the murder otherwise how would this keystone kop get all this info that quickly. They are not the best and the brightest now . makes perfect sense avoid suspicion by doing the obvious
The killers, whoever they are, convinced the world that there's no getting away from vengeance of those that have had their loved ones killed The deceased wasn't an angel, he was a killer, getting what he had coming to him
No one has proven that Israelis were involved yet. And even if Israelis were involved, why should anyone care.
OK. OK .. I am coming for DNA test but please don't kill me...
Maybe they'll discover some viable matter within his cranium
Funny comments about the assesination when everybody knows who are the killers. Not by names but the people and government. They killed one person but they convinced millions who are the terrorists and killers in the middle easr
Who is the police chief going to use for DNA tests. It hasn't been prooven Israelis did the deed. Perhaps he wants to test all the people of Israel so he could finally eliminate Israel from being a suspect and start looking for the real culprit. This is a big joke, here we're talking DNA with a police chief who still doesn't know his ABC
would be very intersting to se your DNA tests also. It could shine light on your unintelligble posts or maybe it was a visit of a troll handyman to the reindeer
Nothing to hide? No problem.
even if Israel would send suspects to Dubai, they wouldn't let them in because they are Israelis.
News reports indicate that Arab countries and/or organizations, not least the Palestinian Authority, were involved in this as well. Is he interested in their DNA too, or does he just want a bit of Jewish skin for his collection?
Who is he goingto test? All of israel? Or the peoples who names were shown who have allibis, they wernt in Dubai and the pictures are not them so what is Tamim goin todo? How out of 7m is he going to find the 13 no 26 no whatever new number he has today how about this, he states the people he suspects brings the samples he has found with him, tests the Israelis he suspects, if israelis are cleared he agrees to stand trial on charges of slander and liable against the state of israel he agrees to stand trial on civil charges of slander and liable against Israel Dubai apologizes for it's support of his statements and agrees tonever in future accuse israel when it holds no proof fair?
In response #3&10 Jean,Ire. Maybe they should show his passport but what questions could he answer HE WAS MURDERED without a TRIAL. The living on the other hand can answer questions and if there is DNA proof surely that will prove innocenence or guilt. Israel must take this opportunity to Make this police officer right or wrong. i remind Jean she lives in a country that does not abuse other nations passports or human rights.
during struggle leaving DNA under his fingernails and recovered by Dubai Chief. Superb investigation by Dubai Chief sends stupid assassins into hiding for fear of capture as mossad highly underestimated Dubai Chief...to be continued...
...really no country does do this... he could crosscheck the dna-pattern/fingerprints with the fbi-database (they do this in cross-cases), british one (most passport holders from there, can have left a trace there)... then he can ask israel for providing samples or going there to collect them in person... in an aljazeera-interview he was asked about "hard evidence" that mossad is behind. im not sure if i understood it right, but i think he said that 17 suspects had been arrived in israel by now, but left open what his source for this is... it seems they dont have ANYthing...
This is craziest investigation I have ever seen. Reminds of Dreyfus Affair.
I think Dubai's police chief should resign due to suspected collaboration with Mr. M, an avowed killer and weapons smuggler.
Mr Chief of police , I don't know how they are keeping in that position talking your mouth off , why don't shutt the hell up and do your job , you are an embaresment to the Arabs, some of the statments this guy is claiming even if they true are stuppid and moranic.
the taxpayers' $$. This guy has his bloody nerve. Government bureaucrats. They should have all gone down with the Titanic!
The killers should go back to Dubai to confirm how they did it.
The Cousin of the ruling Prince Mahtub he claims relation to had many wives ,bored to death in their harem. And many handymen or doctors visiting the palace or visited by them.. Go ahead ,the manicured chief of Dubai Police ,be a man and honor your father ,as Qoran demands
for any tv crew remaining in Dubai !!! :-))
They don't have any suspects, just names of Israeli victims of identity theft.
Where will they spend their vacations now?
How can Haaretz keep reporting about nothing? This should be aired on Comedy Central in he USA! Great material, really funny.