Hit squad electrocuted Hamas leader with lamp to make death look like an accident

dailymail.co.uk ^ | Feb. 21, 2010 | Daniel Boffey

[Free ThinkerNY]

The hit squad behind the assassination of a Hamas commander in a Dubai hotel tried to make his death look like an accident by electrocuting him with a bedside lamp.

Police sources said the killers, who used fake British passports, tried to ‘induce the effects of a heart attack’ before smothering Mahmoud Al-Mabhouh with a pillow in his room.

It is understood that the lamp was taken apart and the wiring attached to a device that pulsed electricity into his body.

An electric shock can make the heart muscles go into spasm, just as they would if a victim suffered from a heart attack brought on by high blood pressure.

Police said they found pills used to treat high blood pressure in Al-Mabhouh’s room.

The revelations come as the row between Israel and Britain reached a new pitch amid claims that the fake British passports used by the killers had been secretly copied by Tel Aviv airport immigration officials.

The Israeli ambassador to London has been accused of ‘stonewalling’ all attempts to find out how the killers had the passports.

But the Foreign Office has been told that all six of the genuine passport holders - all residents in Israel - had their documents briefly taken away at the airport during routine checks.

[erman]

I think they got it wrong. I bet they asked him a few questions and the electrical wiring “helped” to jog his memory. The pillow was just the quiet way to get rid of him.

[RoadTest]

I like the precision of the Israelis. They don’t fly an airplane with people in it into a building with people in it. They get the right man the first time.

[SJackson]

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[SJackson]

Funny how the story neglects to tell that the dead Hamas guy was traveling on a fake passport and the hotel didn’t know who the dead guy really was when they found him. ********************************* that detail seems to have been omitted from almost every account I’ve seen

That's because it's only an international incident when Israeli's do it. A terrorist official of a "friendly" regeime, no one cares.

[investigateworld]

I still have to laugh at the exploding cell Phone the Israelis used on a thug.

I hear they a "collect call" ruse, just to twist the knife!

[Sender]

I can believe that Israel performed a hit on a terrorist in another country. They’ve done that before. What is difficult to believe is that Mossad found it necessary to steal the identity of real Israeli residents just to create travel documents. I don’t think they would do that, at least not without the blessing of the real identity holders.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks hennie pennie. Yeah, that worked.