British police in Israel to probe killers' fake passports
(JERUSALEM) - Two British police officers are in Israel to investigate the use of fake passports by the killers of a senior Hamas militant in Dubai last month, the British embassy in Tel Aviv said on Saturday.
"Two British police officers arrived a few days ago to interview British passport holders on the use of false passports" bearing their identities in the case, embassy spokesman Rafi Shamir told AFP.
The official said Israeli authorities "had been warned" in advance that the officers from Britain's Serious Organised Crime Agency were coming.
British Foreign Secretary David Miliband last week urged Israel to give its "full cooperation" to an international probe into the use of fake passports in the killing of Mahmud al-Mabhuh.
Mabhuh, a founder of Hamas' armed wing, was found dead in his hotel room in Dubai on January 20.
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