Dubai: We Will Go After Netanyahu If Mossad Killed Member Of Hamas

Israeli Army Radio quoted Dubai’s police commissioner Dahi Halfan as saying that he would issue issue a warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s arrest if it turns out that Israeli intelligence was behind last month’s assassination of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, a Hamas strongman.

“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 assassinate Mahmoud al Mabhouh in Dubai,” Halfan reportedly said. “We will issue an arrest warrant against him,” he added.

The Dubai police chief also said that the method used to kill al Mabhouh, was a “Mossad method,” but did not elaborate further.

On Wednesday, Dubai’s police chief warned international intelligence agencies from working “behind our back,” saying anyone who did so should be wary of his own back. Halfan added that that threat was also applicable “to any intelligence organization around the world, whether Mossad, Hamas or any other agency.”

The Dubai police chief said that he believed the Hamas leader was in Dubai for business and not for any kind of arms transactions. He added that if Al-Mabhouh would have been interested in meeting Iranian officials in Dubai, as the Israeli media has claimed, he could have done so in either Syria or Iran itself.

The Dubai police commissioner refused to reveal the identity of the suspects linked to the incident, denying that the assassins had entered the country by participating in Minister Uzi Landau’s entourage, when he visited Dubai earlier that month.