Germany releases 'Mossad agent'
A German court has released Uri Brodsky, an Israeli citizen suspected of being involved in the assassination of a senior Hamas leader in Dubai, on bail.
Brodsky, an alleged Mossad agent, is accused of helping fake a German passport that was used by one of the members of a hit squad involved in the killing of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in a Dubai hotel in January.
German prosecutors said on Friday that there was no need to keep Brodsky in detention and that he was free to travel while judicial proceedings against him continue in Germany. This would mean Brodsky is free to return to Israel, as his maximum penalty would be a fine covered by the bail payment.
Brodsky, an Israeli citizen, was detained in Poland for espionage in June on an arrest warrant issued by Germany. However, Poland extradited him to Germany on Thursday on charges of obtaining a passport under false pretences...
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Sunday, June 20, 2010
Dubai To Have Security Cameras 'Everywhere'
DUBAI (AFP) – Dubai, where a top Hamas commander was killed in January in an assassination blamed on Israel's Mossad spy agency, is to have security cameras "everywhere," the police chief was quoted as saying on Sunday.
The bustling Gulf city currently has 25,000 security cameras, but "surveillance needs to be ramped up to meet the growing requirements of an expanding city," Lieutenant General Dahi Khalfan told The National newspaper.
"We need to work according to a well-studied strategic plan and not only react to events as they come along... We will have cameras everywhere," said Khalfan of the 136-million-dollar (110-million-euro) project.
Hamas commander Mahmud al-Mabhuh was killed at a luxury hotel in the emirate, and Khalfan said police were able to track down the suspected killers with the help of security cameras.
"With the al-Mabhuh murder we were able to play back time through the footage captured by cameras," said Khalfan, adding they analysed 1,700 hours of images and "were able to pull the strings together and identify the suspects."
Saturday, June 12, 2010
Alleged Mossad Spy Arrested In Hit-Squad Case
An alleged Mossad spy from Israel wanted in connection with the hit-squad slaying of a Hamas agent in Dubai has been arrested in Poland, officials said Saturday.
FILE -in this March 24, 2010 file photo a Palestinian youth walks out of a store covered with... 
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The man, using the name Uri Brodsky, is suspected of working for Mossad in Germany and helping to issue a fake German passport to a member of the Mossad operation that allegedly killed Hamas agent Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in Dubai in January, a spokesman for the German federal prosecutor's office told The Associated Press.
Brodsky was arrested in early June upon his arrival in Poland because of a European arrest warrant issued by Germany which is now seeking his extradition, the spokesman said, declining to be named in line with department policy.
The spokesman had no estimate of how long it could take for Brodsky to be extradited from Poland to Germany, saying "the matter is now in the hands of the Polish authorities." If Brodsky agrees, the extradition could take a few days, but that isn't likely, the spokesman said.
In Warsaw, Monika Lewandowska, a spokeswoman for Polish prosecutors, confirmed that the suspect, identified only as Uri B., was arrested at the city's international airport on June 4. She told the AP that the arrest warrant was made "in connection with the murder of a Hamas member in Dubai."...
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