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I think it is a brave decision, well done Monaghan.
I truely believe that the Government has to take a tough line with Israel over the passports fiasco.

It hasn't gone down too well in Israel, as many papers running the story today.

David Healey no doubt

He was in today folks. He spent the day with John Ging and toured a couple of schools.
No doubt John filled him in on the crisis on the ground in Gaza, and lets hope he can work towards
getting the siege on Gaza lifted.
He refused to meet Hamas, who also had an official at the border to meet him. They didn't meet.
He said his visit was humanitarian, not political.


http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/0225/gaza.html

The Minister for Foreign Affairs, Micheál Martin, has carried out a tour of Gaza, despite being blocked from entering the troubled region by Israel last year.

It is the first visit by an EU Foreign Minister since the Israeli assault in 2009.

Mr Martin entered Gaza through its border with Egypt.

AdvertisementPrior to the tour, Mr Martin maintained that his one-day visit was a humanitarian mission and there were no plans to meet Hamas.

Speaking on RTÉ's Morning Ireland, the minister said he wanted 'to highlight and see at first-hand the devastating impact of the war last year'

It's reverse physcology....

Guess I got it in time! USA 1 up. Crowd silenced  after 41 seconds...

I guess I read this thread at the right time. Just tuned in for what should be a classic!

Definetly Mossad.

Death in Dubai


Robert Fisk: Britain's explanation is riddled with inconsistencies. It's time to come clean

How could the Arabs pick up on a Mossad killing, if that is what it was? Well, we shall see


Thursday, 18 February 2010

Collusion. That's what it's all about. The United Arab Emirates suspect – only suspect, mark you – that Europe's "security collaboration" with Israel has crossed a line into illegality, where British passports (and those of other other EU nations) can now be used to send Israeli agents into the Gulf to kill Israel's enemies. At 3.49pm yesterday afternoon (Beirut time, 1.49pm in London), my Lebanese phone rang. It was a source – impeccable, I know him, he spoke with the authority I know he has in Abu Dhabi – to say that "the British passports are real. They are hologram pictures with the biometric stamp. They are not forged or fake. The names were really there. If you can fake a hologram or biometric stamp, what does this mean?"


The voice – I know the man and his origins well – wants to talk. "There are 18 people involved in the killing of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh. Besides the 11 already named, there are two Palestinians who are being interrogated and five others, including a woman. She was part of the team that staked out the hotel lobby." Two hours later, an SMS arrives on my Beirut phone from Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates. It is the same source.

"ONE MORE THING," it says in capital letters, then continues in lower case. "The command room of the operation was in Austria (sic, in fact, all things are "sic" in this report)... meaning the suspects when here did not talk to each other but thru the command room on separate lines to avoid detection or linking themselves to one another... but it was detected and identified OK??" OK? I ask myself.


My source is both angry and insistent. "We have sent out details of the 11 named people to Interpol. Interpol has circulated them to 188 countries – but why hasn't Britain warned foreign nations that these people are using passports in these names?" There was more to come.

"We have identified five credit cards belonging to these people, all issued in the United States." The man will not give the EU nationalities of the extra five – this would make two women involved in Mr Mabhouh's murder. He said that EU countries were cooperating with the UAE, including the UK. But "not one of the countries we have been speaking to has notified Interpol of the passports used in their name. Why not?"


The source insisted that one of the names on a passport – the name of a man who denies any knowledge of its use – has travelled on it in Asia (probably Indonesia) and EU countries over the past year. The Emirates have proof that an American entered their country in June 2006 on a British passport issued in the name of a UK citizen who was already in prison in the Emirates. The Emirates claim that the passport of an Israeli agent sent to kill a Hamas leader in Jordan was a genuine Canadian passport issued to a dual national of Israel.

Intelligence agencies – who in the view of this correspondent are often very unintelligent – have long used false passports. Oliver North and Robert McFarlane travelled to Iran to seek the release of US hostages in Lebanon on passports that were previously stolen from the Irish embassy in Athens. But the Emirates' new information may make some European governments draw in their breath – and they had better have good replies to the questions. Intelligence services – Arab, Israeli, European or American – often adopt an arrogant attitude towards those from whom they wish to hide. How could the Arabs pick up on a Mossad killing, if that is what it was? Well, we shall see.

Collusion is a word the Arabs understand. It speaks of the 1956 Suez War, when Britain and France cooperated with Israel to invade Egypt. Both London and Paris denied the plot. They were lying. But for an Arab Gulf country which suspects its former masters (the UK, by name) may have connived in the murder of a visiting Hamas official, this is apparently now too much. There is much more to come out of this story. We will wait to see if there are any replies in Europe.

No, the ambassador will not be summoned.

To do so would be anti semitic.

Stew, can you point out to me where i'm been anti semitic?

Sure didn't Dot Cotton kill Ethel in a mercy killing and get away with it.

Picked this up on the Haaretz news site:

The three Irish passport-holders accused of taking part in the assassination of a Hamas commander in Dubai last month do not exist, Ireland's Department of Foreign Affairs said on Tuesday.

The trio of alleged Irishmen identified Monday in Dubai as Gail Folliard, Evan Dennings and Kevin Daveron do not appear in Ireland's records of legitimate passport-holders, said the government.

"We are unable to identify any of those three individuals as being genuine Irish citizens. Ireland has issued no passports in those names," the department said in a statement.
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The government added that the Irish passport numbers publicized by Dubai authorities also are counterfeits, because they have the wrong number of digits and contain no letters.

British government sources told the Daily Telegraph earlier Tuesday that the three Irish passport-holders were most likely Mossad agents carrying false documentation.

The Telegraph report came one day after Dubai Police Chief Lt. Gen. Dhahi Khalfan Tamim announced that senior Hamas official Mahmoud al-Mabhouh was murdered by an 11-member hit squad of mercenaries carrying European passports.

The group was responsible for killing the Hamas commander in his hotel room on January 20, a slaying that has elicited vows of revenge from the Palestinian militant group.

Dubai will soon issue arrest warrants for the 11 suspects, but Tamim said Monday that he had still not ruled out Israeli involvement. While he did not accuse Israel directly, Tamim did say it was possible that "leaders of certain countries gave orders to their intelligence agents."

"We do not rule out Mossad, but when we arrest those suspects we will know who masterminded it. [We have not] issued arrest warrants yet, but will do so soon," he told a press conference on Monday.

He told reporters that six members of the alleged assassination team held British passports, three held Irish passports, and one each from France and Germany. A leading suspect, who carried a French passport, left Dubai for Munich via Qatar after the killing, Tamim added.

Police released the suspects' photos, names, nationalities and details from their passports, which authorities said were not fake.

"Israel carries out a lot of assassinations in many countries, even in countries it is allied to," Tamim said, adding that Mabhouh may have been killed by electrocution.

The Jordanian government on Tuesday confirmed that it had extradited two Palestinians to the United Arab Emirates authorities in connection with the assassination.

"The extradition took place in accordance with observed legal and official rules and the relevant bilateral agreements," Minister of State for Media Affairs Nabil Sharif said in a statement.

Sharif declined to divulge the identity or the affiliations of the two Palestinians, saying "it was up to the UAE authorities to do so."

The rival Palestinian groups - Hamas and President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah movement - were involved in verbal exchanges on Tuesday regarding the camp to which the two Palestinian suspects belonged.

At Monday's news conference, Tamim revealed surveillance video of the alleged assassination team arriving on separate flights to Dubai the day before Mabhouh was found dead; the suspects also checked into separate hotels. They paid for all expenses in cash and used different mobile phone cards to avoid being traced, he added.

Any word yet from the Irish Government?

I was reading there that a few of the British suspects have been saying that their identies have been stolen.
If so, then Israhell have a lot to answer for.

This story broke last week, and its a bit strange that it has only appeared in the mainstream press this week.

There is little doubt in my mind that Mossad have carried out this killing, as it is most likely revenge for the killing of 2 IDF soldiers 20 years ago by the victim.

Mossad have a very good reputation for murdering Hamas leaders in other countries, and getting away with it.
However, they will find this one hard to squirm out of.

Looking forward to a statement from the Irish Govt. on this mess.

Three people have been shot and killed at the University of Alabama, a university spokesman says.

A suspect has been apprehended after the violence on the university campus in the city of Huntsville, the spokesman, Ray Garner said.

One other person was injured in the incident, he added.

US educational sites have seen numerous fatal shooting attacks in recent decades, the most serious occurring at Virginia Tech University in 2007.

"We have three confirmed people who are dead, one injured," said Mr Garner.

"The police have secured the building. " he added.

Police were "sweeping the building to both look to see if there are other victims as well as to get evidence," Mr Garner said.

He said that a woman was in custody but he could not identify her or any of the victims.

A local television station, WAFF, quoting a police official, said the shooter was believed to be a female staff member.



http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8513727.stm

1. Argentina, just class. Loved it, and would love to live there.
2. Palestine, as a piece of my heart is there.
3. Venezuela, for the most beautiful women in the world.
4. New Zealand, as it is just like Ireland.
5. Iran, just to piss tyrones own off.