Israeli involvement in the assassination in Dubai of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, a Hamas operative and weapons smuggler, has not been definitively proven. But aside from circumstantial evidence -- half of the suspects used the passports of Israeli residents -- Israel is widely assumed to have ordered the hit because it has the most to gain from interrupting weapons smuggling, even temporarily, into Gaza. Should Israel be clearly linked to the killing, however, its relations with Britain, France and Australia, among the other nations whose passports were forged in the operation, would deteriorate sharply. And the distrust may linger.
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