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March 24, 2010       Share:    

Source: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article7072314.ece

Britain Expels Top Mossad Agent over Passport Cloning

(Times-UK) Philippe Naughton, Catherine Philp and James Hider - Britain has expelled Mossad's chief representative in London after a criminal investigation blamed Israel for cloning British passports used in the assassination of a senior Hamas operative in Dubai. David Miliband, the Foreign Secretary, said Israel's "intolerable" misuse of British passports had shown a "profound disregard" for the UK's sovereignty. "Given that this was a very sophisticated operation, in which high-quality forgeries were made, the Government judges it is highly likely that the forgeries were made by a state intelligence service," he said. "Taking this together with other inquiries, and the link with Israel established by Soca [the Serious and Organized Crime Agency], we have concluded that there are compelling reasons to believe that Israel was responsible for the misuse of the British passports."

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