Dubai seeks '11 Europeans' for Hamas killing

[Peter Presland]

Don't think this has been mentioned here before.

Andrew Gilligan in The Telegraph

The Foreign Office denied claims that it had been tipped off about the use of British passports before the hit, insisting: “We only received details of the British passports a few hours before the [February 15] press conference held by the police in Dubai.”
But the Irish foreign ministry has confirmed that it knew Irish passports had been used by the hit squad as early as February 4 – and it would seem surprising if Britain did not know at least that soon too. The use of “European” passports in the hit was being claimed by the Dubai authorities as early as January 29. Not for the first time, the British government may not be being wholly frank about what it knew and when it knew it.

Note the usual wriggle-room - as 'details' of the British passports - slippery duplicitous sods!

The earliest mention I saw of Irish passports was 5th February on the "Irish4palestine" site so it was certainly public knowledge by then.

Its as plain as could be though that the UK government - as usual - is in thrall to Israel. Faux-outrage and a ridiculous, "pouting, foot-stamping" (aka Magda) Pinicchio-puppet Milliband notwithstanding.