UK: Israel behind passport forgery in Dubai killing

[kpete]

Source: CNN

UK: Israel behind passport forgery in Dubai killing
March 23, 2010 -- Updated 2118 GMT (0518 HKT)

London, England (CNN) -- There are "compelling reasons" to believe the Israeli government was responsible for forging British passports used in a plot to kill a Hamas leader in the United Arab Emirates earlier this year, British Foreign Secretary David Miliband said Tuesday.

"Such misuse of British passports is intolerable," Miliband said, adding that the fact that Israel was an ally of the United Kingdom "only adds insult to injury."

The passports were "copied from genuine British passports" in a "highly sophisticated operation," indicating a government was behind it, Miliband told the House of Commons.

Britain's Serious Organised Crime Agency concluded that the 12 British people whose passports were cloned where "wholly innocent victims of identity theft," the foreign secretary said.

Read more: http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/03/23/uae.hamas.killing/index.html?hpt=T1

[demosincebirth]

1. This cloak and dagger stuff is been happening for decades It might just be me,

I don't know what the fuss is about. Someone enlighten me.

[proteus_lives]

2. Whenever Israel does something that all other nations do, it's double-plus bad.

Israel has always been held to a different standard.

[Xipe Totec]

3. That's lame

Israel depends for its survival on the very hands that it is biting.

It's time to remember that, or go it alone.

[proteus_lives]

6. Israel (if that was who it was) bite Hamas.

Not the US or the UK.

[Flaneur]

7. What Israel did would be diplomatically offensive no matter who did it.

Steal or fake passports from your allies in a conspiracy to commit murder? That doesn't go over very well.

[Heywood J]

8. Israel doesn't seem to have learned not to use the sovereignty of its allies

to commit assassinations that it swore it would never do again, the last time it got caught doing the EXACT same thing (West Germany in 1987). They screwed innocent people by stealing their identities to commit murder, and forged the passports of their allies to do so, without the knowledge or consent of that ally.

Yeah, the standard they failed to live up to there was acting ethically.

[ManiacJoe]

5. The real British owners of the cloned passports

may now have travel problems.

All the new security features put into modern passports is making it harder for the world's spy agencies to doctor up fake ones.

[demosincebirth]

9. In this day and age, they can forge anything., even a Cheney army record.

[pjt7]

4. Israel is getting called

out for this assasination for some reason.