Dubai seeks '11 Europeans' for Hamas killing

[Magda Hassan]

A pity since the other Julia would be better. The one on the back benches who supports the Palestinians. She is not afraid to call it like it is. Hence the back benches I suppose.

[Mark Stapleton]

A pity since the other Julia would be better. The one on the back benches who supports the Palestinians. She is not afraid to call it like it is. Hence the back benches I suppose.

I think you mean Julia Irwin, MP for Fowler. Strong supporter of Palestinian rights.

[Magda Hassan]

Yep. that's her.

[Carsten Wiethoff]

From http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/com...74688.html

Robert Fisk: Dubai police hunt Briton over murder of Hamas official

Exclusive: IoS shown evidence that suspect in Mabhouh killing had genuine British passport


Within 48 hours of becoming Foreign Secretary, William Hague faces a political crisis over the Middle East. The emirate of Dubai has named a British citizen as a 19th suspect of the killing of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, the Hamas official murdered in the emirate four months ago, apparently by a group that included holders of forged British passports. According to a source in the United Arab Emirates, the suspect arrived in Dubai under his own name and carrying a genuine British passport.
The document, the details of which are known by The Independent on Sunday but which we have decided not to publish, shows that he holds a real British passport dated 24 October 2007, valid for 11 years, and was born in 1948. It is believed that his father was a Jewish Palestinian who migrated to the UK just after the Second World War. Dubai police have informed Interpol of the name and passport number of the suspect. The man is believed to be hiding in Western Europe.
According to Dubai sources, the British man was identified parking a rental car close to the hotel where Mr Mabhouh was murdered and can be seen parking his car on a videotape that is in the possession of UEA authorities; a copy of the tape has been given to the British police. According to the UEA, the suspect has recently visited both Canada and France.
Mr Mabhouh was smothered to death in his hotel room and the Emirates have named 33 suspects. Investigations revealed that up to 12 of them had used forged British passports. Other suspects used similar counterfeit or stolen Irish, Australian, French and German passports.
Those involved are widely believed to be members of Mossad, the Israeli intelligence service. British, Irish and French governments have asked Israeli ambassadors to explain the use of their national passports in the killing.
The involvement of a genuine British suspect will not improve diplomatic relations between London and Tel Aviv. The former foreign secretary David Miliband condemned the counterfeiting of British passports as "intolerable" and demanded reassurances from Israel that it would not be repeated. Britain also ordered an Israeli diplomat to leave the UK in March after an investigation by the Serious and Organised Crime Agency showed that there were "compelling reasons" why Israel was believed to be behind the misuse of the passports. The inquiry determined that the documents were cloned when British citizens passed through airports on their way into Israel, with officials taking them away for "checks" that lasted around 20 minutes. Britain's decision was attacked by angry Israeli MPs who described it as the action of "anti-semitic dogs".
The diplomat asked to leave the UK was understood to be an intelligence officer who was known to the UK authorities and worked as official liaison with Britain's MI6. There was no suggestion the officer was personally involved in the passports affair.
Israel has never admitted any role in February's Dubai assassination of Mr Mabhouh, who was described as a key figure in smuggling Iranian weapons into the Gaza Strip on behalf of Hamas. It has abstained from signing any material that might be construed as a confession.

Aha.

"anti-semitic dogs"

Quite likely the wanted British citizen is this one:
http://www.interpol.int/public/data/want..._22248.asp
Wanted
LOCKWOOD, Christopher





[size=12]Legal Status
Present family name: LOCKWOOD Forename: CHRISTOPHER Sex: MALE Date of birth: 23 February 1948 (62 years old) Place of birth: GLASGOW, United Kingdom Nationality: United Kingdom
Offences
Categories of Offences: CRIMES AGAINST LIFE AND HEALTH Arrest Warrant Issued by: PUBLIC PROSECUTOR - DUBAI / United Arab Emirates[/SIZE]

[Jan Klimkowski]

Carsten - important post. Thank you.

[Ed Jewett]

Israel Responsible for Faking Aussie Passports, Diplomat Expelled

May 24th, 2010 Via: Sydney Morning Herald:
Australia’s relations with Israel have hit a new low, with the Rudd Government expelling an Israeli diplomat over the fake passports affair.
The Minister for Foreign Affairs, Stephen Smith, told Parliament today that inquiries by Australian intelligence agencies into the use of fake Australian passports in Dubai had concluded the fakes were the work of a state intelligence agency.
Mr Smith said this led to the conclusion there was no doubt Israel was responsible.
“No government can tolerate the abuse of its passports, especially by a foreign government,” he said. “This represents a clear affront to the security of our passport system.”
The scandal over the use of fake passports erupted internationally after the January murder of a Hamas operative.
Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, one of Hamas’s top arms dealers, was found dead in his hotel room on January 20.
Dubai police identified 27 people involved in the assassination, 12 of whom travelled on forged British passports.
Four of the suspects travelled on Australian passports in the names of four dual Australian-Israeli citizens.
Mr Smith said that intelligence sharing with Mossad would also be cut as the fake passports affair drags relations between the two countries to a new low.

[Mark Stapleton]

Israel Responsible for Faking Aussie Passports, Diplomat Expelled

May 24th, 2010 Via: Sydney Morning Herald:
Australia’s relations with Israel have hit a new low, with the Rudd Government expelling an Israeli diplomat over the fake passports affair.
The Minister for Foreign Affairs, Stephen Smith, told Parliament today that inquiries by Australian intelligence agencies into the use of fake Australian passports in Dubai had concluded the fakes were the work of a state intelligence agency.
Mr Smith said this led to the conclusion there was no doubt Israel was responsible.
“No government can tolerate the abuse of its passports, especially by a foreign government,” he said. “This represents a clear affront to the security of our passport system.”
The scandal over the use of fake passports erupted internationally after the January murder of a Hamas operative.
Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, one of Hamas’s top arms dealers, was found dead in his hotel room on January 20.
Dubai police identified 27 people involved in the assassination, 12 of whom travelled on forged British passports.
Four of the suspects travelled on Australian passports in the names of four dual Australian-Israeli citizens.
Mr Smith said that intelligence sharing with Mossad would also be cut as the fake passports affair drags relations between the two countries to a new low.

Yes, it's caused a major fuss here, Ed.

And all the Israel firsters in the Aussie media are jumping to Israel's defence of course. None are more shrill than Greg Sheridan, who is funded by a private think tank. In this bizarre piece, he equates the Dubai murder with Australian soldiers fighting in Afghanistan and claims the moral high ground for the Mossad murderers.


http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opi...5870774061

The tone and content of Mr Smith's statement yesterday are also perplexing. For some reason he refers to the killing of the Hamas terrorist as murder, as though that were the end of the moral equation.

Hamas is committed to murderous terrorism directed at killing Israeli civilians. It is a proscribed terrorist organisation.

Australian troops in Afghanistan have targeted al-Qa'ida leaders personally and directly in missions to kill these leaders. In Mr Smith's terms, the Diggers must also be guilty of murder.

[Magda Hassan]

I presume it is the Lowry Institute that Sheridan is funded by? This move has taken me by surprise. They've grown a pair at last! The opposition are saying it is an 'over reaction' :banghead: and that there is no proof. :argh: There's plenty but some do not want to see it.

[Mark Stapleton]

I presume it is the Lowry Institute that Sheridan is funded by? This move has taken me by surprise. They've grown a pair at last! The opposition are saying it is an 'over reaction' :banghead: and that there is no proof. :argh: There's plenty but some do not want to see it.

Yes Magda, that odious individual Julie Bishop has been chosen by the opposition to vent their outrage at their Zionist masters being punished.

Watch the media go for Rudd's head now. He's already being described as worse than Whitlam, who of course was blamed for every ill under the sun back in the 70's.

There's a bit of deja vu here. Whitlam's Government was the victim of the OPEC oil embargo, which caused petrol to go through the roof, dragging the price of everything else up with it. This was of course the OPEC response to Israel's Yom Kippur war of 1973.

Whitlam's big mistake was his criticism of Israel after that war and his Government's support of UN resolutions condemning Israel's behaviour towards the Palestinians. What followed was a media firestorm aimed at Whitlam which was unparalleled in Australian politics, until now.

If you publicly criticise Israel, you are finished in politics. This holds true like a mathematical equation in western 'democracies'.

Most people are too stupid to realise that they regard us as nothing more than their slaves:


http://www.jcpa.org/JCPA/Templates/ShowP..._Relations

It is generally agreed that, despite a solidly pro-Israeli record up until that point, the election of an ALP government under Gough Whitlam (December 1972-November. 1975) marked a sharp departure in Australian policy toward Israel and Arab-Israeli issues. The Middle East was not a matter of controversy during the campaign and did not feature in the platform of either major party. Whitlam, speaking to Jewish gatherings during the lead-up to the campaign, emphasized his fraternal ties with the ruling Israeli Labor Party and friendship with leaders such as Golda Meir and Yigal Allon, and received a majority of Jewish support.[52]

In office, however, the Whitlam government moved farther from the United States and closer in its foreign policy to the nonaligned movement, where condemnation of Israel was the norm. Although Whitlam described this policy as "even-handedness and neutrality,"[53] such neutrality was a far cry from the sort also proclaimed by his conservative predecessors.

The effects of this new policy became most apparent during the 1973 Yom Kippur War when Australia failed to condemn either the Egyptian and Syrian attacks that launched it or the Soviet airlift of arms supplies to the Arab combatants. However, once the United States began to airlift arms and supplies to Israel, the Australian UN representative, on instructions from Canberra, condemned both airlifts with a particular emphasis on America's.[54] Even before this, there had been repeated one-sided condemnations by Australia in the United Nations of all Israeli reprisals for terrorist and cross-border attacks, but silence about anti-Israeli aggressions.[55]

In a meeting with predominantly ALP-affiliated Jews called to clear the air, Whitlam apparently became angered by hostile questioning. He equated Israeli responses with terrorism, said an Israeli reprisal raid on a PLO base in Lebanon had been "not only a mistake, but a crime," and cited the growing Australian Arab community becoming "more articulate" as a reason to change Australian policy.[56] Most controversially, he referred to those present as "You people"; asked about the failure to condemn the Arab attacks that had launched the war, he responded: "You people should realise that there is a large Christian Arab community in this country."[57]

Under Whitlam, Australia also voted for a resolution equating Zionism with racism at a UN women's conference in Mexico, though it voted against the equivalent resolution in the UN General Assembly.[58] Whitlam later approved the establishment of a PLO liaison office in Canberra and became embroiled in scandals involving the acceptance of Arab loans to Australia and the ALP. In the 1974 Khemlani affair, Australia sought to borrow $4 billion from dubious Arab sources, repayable as a lump sum after twenty years.[59] Even more controversially, during the 1975 election campaign Whitlam secretly approved a scheme to obtain a substantial sum, often said to be $500,000, from the Iraqi Baath Party to help fund ALP campaign expenses.[60] It later emerged that the man at the center of the Iraqi loans affair, ALP activist Bill Hartley, had also written to Yasser Arafat seeking PLO funds for the party.[61] Approaches for funds also were reportedly made to Saudi Arabia.[62]

Following his highly controversial dismissal by the governor-general and subsequent loss of an election in 1975, Whitlam continued to maintain that his stances were justified by the existence of the growing Arab community in Australia.[63] He also criticized Australian Jewish leaders for having "blackmailed" him, and implied that Israel dominated U.S. foreign policy and that the international media was monolithically pro-Israeli.[64]

[Mark Stapleton]

Its incredible Magda.

This afternoon Julie Bishop, so embarrasingly eager to please her Zionist masters, told an incredulous interviewer that Australian intelligence has also used faked passports.

Now, a few hours later, she has retracted that statement.

Conclusive proof that Bishop, and probably others in the Australian political class, show primary loyalty to Israel and secondary loyalty to Australia. No further proof is required.