Dubai seeks '11 Europeans' for Hamas killing

[Jan Klimkowski]

"Report: Suspect in Dubai assassination used identity of fallen IDF soldier" (my emphasis in red - the Ha'aretz comments notwithstanding, it is an amazing resemblance, so close that there is no doubt in the matter):

"In 1994, according to the investigation, someone named Lockwood had been known as Yehuda Lustig, born in Glasgow, Scotland to a Jewish family that had lived in British Mandatory Palestine and was killed in Sinai during the 1973 Yom Kippur War. The question of who the real Christopher Lockwood was remained open. On the Internet, conjecture even surfaced that Yehuda Lustig, whose name was inscribed on a memorial, had not been killed and that 40 years later, Lockwood is the same person.

A glance at the side-by-side photographs of Lustig, the young soldier, and Lockwood provided by Interpol reveals an uncanny resemblance, particularly in their eyes, noses, mouths and the outlines of the chins.

An examination of Interior Ministry registration documents pointed to even more mystery regarding the true identity of Lustig-Lockwood.

An Israeli citizen by the name of Yehuda Lustig is registered within the state's information archives. The details of this Lustig's life are suspiciously similar to that of the fallen IDF soldier: He was born in 1948 in Britain, and his father was also named Martin.

The living Lustig is listed by the Interior Ministry as a bachelor, with an address at Allenby 10 in Tel Aviv. That address, however, proved to be false: there is no residential building at Allenby 10, only a convenience store."

It appears we've stumbled on some of the Israeli tradecraft in action. 10/10/2010 10:30:00 AM

Yes - Lustig/Lockwood appears to be a deep cover mechanic.

Verifiably invisible.

The Dubai police chief has outed several Mossad operatives and I'm sure is taking the threat to his life most seriously.

Haaretz may also have been leaked certain, carefully selected, details to build up a romanticized picture of Lustig/Lockwood as a covert warrrior for the state of Israel (akin to some of those involved in say the hunting down of alleged Black September members).

Plus rather than being a forged British passport, (which provoked faux outrage from the British government), the claim made through Haaretz is that Lustig/Lockwood used a genuine British passport because he was originally British.

British authorities were furious over the alleged forgery, but it became apparent that one of the men the Dubai police accused of aiding the assailants, Christopher Lockwood, used an authentic British passport.

(snip)

Lockwood maintained mystery in his British life as well. He left no tax records or clinic registration, never paid a television license fee and, naturally enough, did not bother to wait in his London flat to answer investigators' question. A cellphone registered in his name was switched on in France, but the investigation there quickly hit a dead end - as with all the other 30 suspects whose pictures were prominently displayed on newspaper pages but did little to help investigators out of a labyrinth of stolen or borrowed identities.

Despite the diplomatic row over the killing because of the use of foreign passports, Western governments showed little eagerness to search for the suspects, and Dubai fears that the more time passes, the less chance to locate the "Mossad agents" the city-state believes to be behind the act. The passage of time allows commanders to cover tracks, while the actual operators, Dubai authorities believe, are already safely in Israel.

http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/new...r-1.318106