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March 5, 2010       Share:    

Source: http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postpartisan/2010/03/the_dubai_police_chiefs_outlan.html

The Dubai Police Chief's Outlandish Claims

(Washington Post) Jackson Diehl - Lt. Gen. Dahi Khalfan Tamim, the police chief of Dubai, certainly knows how to milk a good story for all it's worth. It's now been six weeks since Hamas operative Mahmoud al-Mabhouh was found dead in his hotel room. Yet day after day Tamim continues to make headlines, issuing grandiose pronouncements. The general has an eager audience for these increasingly implausible declarations - especially in the Arab and European media, which revel in excoriating Israel for deeds those media routinely excuse or ignore when practiced by other governments. Russia carried out a killing in Dubai less than a year ago. The victim was Sulim Yamadayev, a former Chechen general. Far from trying to disguise the crime, the assassin left behind a golden gun belonging to Ramzan Kadyrov, the gangster who rules Chechnya under the watchful eye of Vladimir Putin.

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