The UK government has again denied it had any prior knowledge of the fake British passports used by the suspected killers of a Hamas militant in Dubai.
Shadow Foreign Secretary William Hague said it was "entirely possible" the government had been alerted.
And a British newspaper claims MI6 and the government had received a tip-off.
Six fake UK passports are thought to have been used by the killers of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh. Israel says there is no proof its agents were involved.
Diplomatic tensions have been building between Britain and Israel after it emerged on Monday that six of the passports used by the 11 suspected assassins were British.
They were clones of passports belonging to men who have dual British and Israeli citizenship.
'An outrage'
Mr Hague told the BBC it was "entirely possible" the government had been alerted to their use in January. Mr al-Mabhouh was murdered in a luxury hotel room in Dubai on 20 January.
And Friday's Daily Mail quotes a British security source who claims the UK's intelligence service MI6 and the government were told of the operation.
Source : http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8523313.stm
Shadow Foreign Secretary William Hague said it was "entirely possible" the government had been alerted.
And a British newspaper claims MI6 and the government had received a tip-off.
Six fake UK passports are thought to have been used by the killers of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh. Israel says there is no proof its agents were involved.
Diplomatic tensions have been building between Britain and Israel after it emerged on Monday that six of the passports used by the 11 suspected assassins were British.
They were clones of passports belonging to men who have dual British and Israeli citizenship.
'An outrage'
Mr Hague told the BBC it was "entirely possible" the government had been alerted to their use in January. Mr al-Mabhouh was murdered in a luxury hotel room in Dubai on 20 January.
And Friday's Daily Mail quotes a British security source who claims the UK's intelligence service MI6 and the government were told of the operation.
Source : http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8523313.stm
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