Israel Matzav

Report: One Israeli has not claimed his passport was stolen

London's Daily Mail reports that one Israeli of the six whose British passports were ostensibly stolen has not come forward to claim that his passport was used by someone else.

All but one of the British men whose identity was used have come forward to proclaim their innocence and Foreign Secretary David Miliband has called the use of fake British passports ‘an outrage’.

Residents of Kibbutz Givat Ha’shlosha, in central Israel, claimed the man who had not come forward was called James Clarke and that he had gone into hiding.

They said he had arrived at the kibbutz as a volunteer, converted to Judaism, married an Israeli woman and served in the Israeli army.

Hmmm. By the way, the Mail reports that the six Britons had their passports taken and copied at Ben Gurion Airport. Got to remember to keep my passport close at hand there.

The Mail also has a detailed description of how the operation was carried out.

A source told The Mail on Sunday that the Dubai police are working on the theory that the lamp to the right-hand side of Al-Mabhouh’s bed was then taken apart to provide live wiring which was attached to an unknown device.

However, the source added that because CCTV footage showed the agents were there for just 22 minutes, the investigators believed the electric current was not used to torture him.

Initial autopsy results show that Al-Mabhouh’s cause of death was by suffocation with a pillow or another soft object.

The source added: ‘Within 25 minutes of the discovery of the body, the hotel notified the police. The first attendees were six officers and then a whole team came within 40 minutes. The number reached 15.

‘He was on the bed on his back covered with the bed sheets up to his neck, wearing black shorts.

‘Pillows were in place and the room appeared normal with curtains closed. Signs of movement to the lamp’s wiring was only later discovered. We believe the papers he was carrying were copied.’

As they left, the killers mysteriously managed to put the latch and chain on the inside of the door.

But investigations by The Mail on Sunday show that the proportions of the hotel room make that a simple process for a woman with slender arms.

A pity he wasn't tortured, isn't it? I'll bet Ilan Saadon and Avi Sasportas HY"D (may God avenge their blood) were.

By the way, how come no one is asking where the false passport on which al-Mabhouh was traveling came from?

The picture at the top is a similar room to the one in which al-Mabhouh got his virgins.

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 2:17 AM