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| Two more Irish passports, Dublin property linked to Dubai hit |
| 2010-02-24 |
| Two more Irish passports were used in the murder of a Hamas official in Dubai, bringing the total to seven. Irish diplomats were investigating the use of two more Irish passport numbers by suspects in the Darned Ruritanians ... It was also reported yesterday that the address of a vacant Dublin property close to the Israeli Embassy was given to a Dubai hotel by one of the suspects, travelling under the name of Kevin Daveron. The property has been empty for ten years and belongs to James Reynolds, the brother of the former Taoiseach Albert Reynolds. The Irish Times said that it had obtained a copy of an invoice issued by the Jumeirah Emirates Towers hotel to a man travelling under the name of Kevin Daveron. The invoice noted his departure time as 1.40pm on January 19, the day Mahmoud al-Mabhouh was murdered. A son of James Reynolds said that the family was “absolutely shocked and horrified' by the revelations. “We are continuing to work closely with authorities in UAE and our EU partners to establish the facts about this case,' a Department of Foreign Affairs spokesman said. Five forged Irish passports initially linked to the 18-strong suspected The Fine Gael party called on Micheál Martin, the Foreign Affairs Minister, to brief the Dáil on the details of the case urgently. Billy Timmins, the party's foreign affairs spokesman, said: “The Minister for Foreign Affairs must start getting explanations as to how suspects in an assassination overseas were able to use valid Irish passport numbers on fake passports and provide a bona fide Dublin address when checking out of a hotel.' He added: “The Irish passport has great standing internationally and the Minister must do all he can to ensure its status is not debased. The illegal use of an address is also a worrying development in this matter.' Labour's Proinsias De Rossa called on the Irish Government to press the EU to put on hold current proposals to upgrade relations with Israel. “The stealing of Irish citizens' identities and the abuse of Irish passports by another state is a gross infringement of Irish sovereignty,' the MEP said. “It is not the normal practice for friendly states to abuse each other's sovereignty in this way. “One can only assume that Israel either has no regard for international law or holds Ireland and the other EU states affected in contempt.' David Lanby, chairman of the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign, said: “The Israeli denial of involvement in the Dubai assassination has been wholly unconvincing and more a case of ‘if you can't prove it, then we won't admit it'. That is the way it's supposed to work ... "Israel is treating the international community with contempt.' |
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