Dubai wants head of Mossad arrested over Hamas assassination

The Dubai chief of police called yesterday for the arrest of Meir Dagan, the head of Mossad, if it is proved that the Israeli spy agency was behind the assassination of the Hamas commander Mahmoud al-Mabhouh. Lieutenant-General Dahi Khalfan Tamim called on Interpol, in a statement last night, to issue a red arrest notice seeking Mr Dagan's extradition "as a killer in case Mossad is proved to be behind the crime, which is most likely now". An insider close to the case confirmed that Mr Dagan and Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli Prime Minister, are top of the Gulf state's wanted list. "Our investigations reveal that Mossad is involved in the murder of al-Mabhouh," General Tamim said. "It is 99 per cent, if not 100 per cent, that Mossad is standing behind the murder."