This ought to put a new twist in someone's shorts.
from CTV news,
"A suspect in the high-profile killing of a Hamas commander at a Dubai hotel has been arrested in Canada, the city-state's police chief says.
Lt. Gen. Dahi Khalfan Tamim told several news organizations the arrest is being kept quiet by Canada and Dubai was told not to go public with the information.
Foreign Affairs did not immediately return a phone call seeking comment on the reports.
Canada's consul general in Dubai, Kris Panday, told The Associated Press he had no comment on the matter.
Tamim's allegations come a little more than a week after a diplomatic dust-up between Canada and the United Arab Emigrates resulted in Canada being booted from its secret military base in the region.
Last week, Tamim said that an unnamed Western country had arrested a key suspect in the assassination of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh. But he did not identify the country.
Al-Mabhouh was killed in January, when he was smothered in his room at the Al Bustan hotel.
Dubai police initially issued warrants for 11 suspects in connection with al-Mabhouh's killing, but later added 16 more suspects to their list. They released video surveillance images of all of the suspects, most of whom travelled on fraudulent British, Irish, Australian, German and French passports.
Investigators said it appeared that a professional hit squad had killed al-Mabhouh.
Days after al-Mabhouh's death, Tamim said it was likely that the Mossad was behind the assassination.
"Our investigators reveal that Mossad is involved in the murder of al-Mabhouh. It is 99 per cent, if not 100 per cent that Mossad is standing behind the murder," Tamim told The National, the state-owned newspaper in Dubai.
Israel did not confirm nor deny its involvement in the assassination.
But Britain, Australia and Ireland later expelled Israeli diplomats after concluding Israel was responsible for the forged passports from their countries.
In June, an alleged Israeli spy named Uri Brodsky was arrested in Warsaw on a European arrest warrant that was issued by a German court.
Two months later, Brodsky was granted bail and is allowed to travel as he pleases while judicial proceedings are moving ahead.
Brodsky is accused of espionage and of helping procure a fake German passport."
Let's see how the diplomacy deals with this 'interesting' development.
Willie
