Bad reputation

By David Gritten BBC News In 1973, a Moroccan waiter working in the Norwegian town of Lillehammer was shot dead by agents of the Israeli foreign intelligence service, Mossad, who mistook him for Ali Hassan Salameh, a Palestinian behind an attack during the previous year’s Munich Olympics in which 11 Israeli athletes died. Two members of the hit squad were arrested the next day as they reused a getaway car to travel to the airport

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Dubai suspects on Interpol list

The 11 people suspected of killing a Hamas commander in Dubai have been placed on international police organisation Interpol’s wanted list. Interpol has posted the photographs and names it suspects were used fraudulently by the individuals

UK presses Israel on Dubai murder

The British government has called in the Israeli ambassador to discuss the use of fake UK passports by the alleged killers of a Hamas commander in Dubai. Gordon Brown has also ordered an inquiry into the passports, which bear the names of six British-Israelis who are not the men pictured.

Israel says no proof of Dubai hit

Israel’s Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has said there is no proof the Mossad spy agency carried out the killing of a Hamas commander in Dubai. But he did not fully deny that Israel carried out the killing, citing its "policy of ambiguity" on such matters.

Britons shocked by assassin claim

Two British men named as members of a hit squad suspected of killing a top Hamas official in Dubai have spoken of their shock. Israel-based Melvyn Mildiner, 31, told the Jerusalem Post he "went to bed with pneumonia and woke up a murderer".

Dubai suspects’ passports ‘faked’

The British and Irish governments have said that passports belonging to the alleged killers of a top Hamas official are fake. Ireland said the names Gail Folliard, Evan Dennings and Kevin Daveron, and their passport numbers, did not match anything issued by its officials.

Taking revenge

By Heather Sharp BBC News, Jerusalem The Islamic movement Hamas claims that the death of one its senior commanders, Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, is the latest in Israel’s history of assassinating individuals it believes to have been behind attacks on its citizens.

Hamas commander ‘killed’ in Dubai

A senior Hamas military commander has died in Dubai, the Palestinian Islamist group has announced. Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, 50, a founder of the Izz al-Din Qassam Brigades, passed away suddenly on 20 January, it added. The exact circumstances of his death were not clear, but one Hamas official, Izzat al-Rishq, told Reuters that he had been assassinated by Israel.

‘Missing arms spark Yemen alert’

The closure of three embassies in Yemen followed local security forces losing track of six trucks full of arms and explosives, say reports from Yemen. France announced its mission in the capital Sanaa was shut on Monday, a day after the US and UK closed theirs. It comes after threats from an al-Qaeda wing linked to an alleged plot to blow up a transatlantic plane over the US.

US screening unfair, says Nigeria

Tougher screening of passengers wanting to fly to the US has been condemned as unfair by Nigeria – one of the nations singled out for special checks. Information Minister Dora Akunyili said the rules, brought in after a Nigerian allegedly man tried to blow up a plane, discriminated against 150m Nigerians.

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