{"id":382962,"date":"2010-03-02T12:54:15","date_gmt":"2010-03-02T17:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/?p=35675"},"modified":"2010-03-02T12:54:15","modified_gmt":"2010-03-02T17:54:15","slug":"dubai-asks-fbi-to-investigate-terror-ties-to-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/382962","title":{"rendered":"Dubai asks FBI to investigate terror ties to US"},"content":{"rendered":"

Press TV<\/a>
\nMarch 2, 2010<\/p>\n

Amid ongoing investigation of the terrorist murder of a Hamas commander in Dubai, the UAE police have asked the US<\/a> Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to look into alleged ties of the suspects to Americans.<\/p>\n

Dubai police asked the FBI to investigate US<\/a>-issued pre-paid credit cards used by 13 of the terror suspects in the killing of Hamas commander Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, Dubai daily The National<\/em> reported Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The United Arab Emirates<\/a> (UAE) has identified 27 suspects, mostly European passport holders, who entered the country in order to carry out the terrorist murder of al-Mabhouh in his hotel room on January 19.<\/p>\n

\u201cThirteen of the 27 suspects used pre-paid MasterCards issued by MetaBank, a regional American bank, to purchase plane tickets and book hotel rooms,\u201d the daily quoted police as saying.<\/p>\n

According to the Police, the credit cards bore the same names as the fake passports used by the suspects to enter Dubai.<\/p>\n

Based on a report published by The Wall Street Journal<\/a><\/em>, two of the suspects traveled to the United States shortly after the murder.<\/p>\n

According to the report, one of the suspects entered the US<\/a> on February 14 using a British passport. Another suspect, using an Irish passport, entered the country on January 21, a day after Mabhouh was found dead in his hotel room.<\/p>\n

The US<\/a> State Department and the Interpol have both declined to comment on the report.<\/p>\n

Speaking on the sidelines of the International Security National Resilience conference in Abu Dhabi, Dubai police Chief Lt. Gen. Dahi Khalfan Tamim did not confirm whether the US<\/a> was participating in the investigation.<\/p>\n

Observers consider the Dubai request from the FBI as merely a formality that has little chance to be followed by any action, since US<\/a> is the prime sponsor of the Israeli regime and has openly backed its previous terror operations as \u2018national security measures.\u2019<\/p>\n

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