Ireland says that Dubai murder Irish passports were fake
Mabhouh checking into the hotel
The three Irish passport-holders accused of taking part in the assassination of a Hamas commander in Dubai do not exist, Ireland’s Department of Foreign Affairs said on Tuesday. The alleged Irish nationals identified on Monday by Dubai Police Chief Lt. Gen. Dhahi Khalfan Tamim as Gail Folliard, Evan Dennings and Kevin Daveron do not appear in Ireland’s records of legitimate passport-holders, said the government. “We are unable to identify any of those three individuals as being genuine Irish citizens. Ireland has issued no passports in those names,” the department said in a statement, according to a report in Haaretz.
The Irish passport numbers given by Dubai authorities are counterfeits because they have the wrong number of digits and contain no letters, the government said. The Daily Telegraph on Tuesday quoted British government sources as saying that the three Irish passport-holders were most likely Mossad agents carrying false passports. The report was published hours after Tamim told the press that Hamas leader Mahmoud Al Mabhouh was murdered last month by an 11-member hit squad of mercenaries carrying European passports. Six held British passports, three held Irish passports, and one each from France and Germany, Tamim said.
