With large segments of world opinion self-righteously outraged over the abuse of passports by Mahmoud Mabhouh's killers, I've been waiting for details on the Hamas honcho's own travel documents.
Reuters fills in info I haven't seen elsewhere.
Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, the Hamas commander assassinated in Dubai, used the same tradecraft — fraudulent passports and disguises — as his killers during secret missions to procure arms for the group, a confidant said on Thursday . . .
"He had many passports of different nationalities — all Arab," he added. "Recently he underwent surgery to reshape his nose. It became narrower." . . .
Dubai police have not commented officially on the passport Mahbouh used to enter the emirate. Mabhouh's brother said the Hamas commander arrived in Dubai on a Palestinian passport that listed his family name as Hassan.
With Dubai police not talking about Mabhouh's abuse of passports, it's up to enterprising journalists to dig up that part of the story.
Earlier this week, the Winnipeg Free Press reported that Mabhouh entered Dubai with a phony Iraqi passport issued by Iran's Revolutionary Guards.
