Irish Government Contradictions Over "Fake" Passports in Mossad Assassination

Were Irish Passports Used By Israelis Fake or Real? Are "concerns" by government "more smoke than fire"?

Will someone - anyone - ask the Irish government to get it's story straight on the Passports used by Mossad to kill a Hamas leader in Dubai? And how much did they know, and when, and are they just "going through the motions" with reactions "more smoke than fire" with the Israeli Ambassador? On Wed. February 17 the Irish government says they were fakes, and there were no record of such passports. Then the next day, they said they were fakes - but because the passports were in the hands of Irish citizens. Bear in mind: it is possible to secure a genuine passport through nefarious means - so were they genuine, or actual forgeries? The Dubai police and international experts say they are real - the only thing the Irish side has been consistent on is saying "fake".

At least three of the 11 suspects are already known to have been using fake passports - Ireland's Department of Foreign Affairs said it could not identify the three said to have been using Irish documents. "Ireland has issued no passports in those names," it said, adding that the documents released by Dubai authorities had the wrong number of digits on.

[Sky News - Wed. February 17, 2010]

The European passports used by the killers of a Hamas chief were not fake, the Dubai police chief has insisted.
"The European passports used by the team which allegedly killed Mahmud al-Mabhuh last month were not fakes and that Dubai immigration officers were "trained" by European security experts to spot such documents," he said.
"No forgery was found in those passports."

Irish government sources told this website that the numbered passports are "here in Ireland in the hands of the Irish citizens, so if the Dubai passports are using the same numbers, they have to be fake."

"It's likely that just trying to deflect criticism of their officials and passport control. The passports are fake."

[EUObserver.com - Thurs. February 18, 2010]

Q. Were those passports real, or not? If not, who are the people in the photos? The eleven known members of the hit squad utilized British, Irish, German, and one French (the squad leader) passports. These passports are real, and so are the photographs in them, which are those of the actual members of the Kidon (the Mossad’s assassination unit) who used the passports to enter and exit the United Arab Emirates. The agency behind the assassination operation used stolen identities of real people, in order to apply for real passports issued under the names of these real people, but with photographs that match the members of the Kidon assassination squad.

[intelNews.org - Wed. February 17, 2010]

"... in the intelligence world, such reactions are often more smoke, than fire" [Stratfor.com]

"The British government has to be seen to be going through the motions." [Haaretz/Daily Mail]

Sources:

http://intelligencenews.wordpress.com/2010/02/17/01-391/
Answers to questions about al-Mabhouh’s assassination
February 17, 2010
By JOSEPH FITSANAKIS intelNews.org

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/Assassinati...Photo
Brits Named As Assassins 'Shocked And Scared'
2:48pm UK, Wednesday February 17, 2010
Adam Arnold, Sky News Online

http://euobserver.com/9/29505
Hit squad passports not fake, say UAE police, as enquiry widens
LEIGH PHILLIPS - EUObserver.com
18.02.2010 @ 17:38 CET

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1151018.html
Last update - 10:00 19/02/2010
Britain 'knew Mossad was using fake passports for Dubai hit'
By Haaretz Service

http://www.stratfor.com/analysis/20100218_video_dispatc...wback
Video Dispatch: A Covert Operation and Diplomatic Blowback
February 18, 2010 | 2351 GMT
Several European governments have summoned Israeli envoys to respond to questions about faked passports and stolen identities apparently used in the killing of a Hamas operative in Dubai. STRATFOR security analyst Scott Stewart gives an insider’s view of the issue.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2tyqL39AyQ