DUBAI (AFP) – Dubai's police chief on Tuesday accused Israel of “vast falsification” of travel documents, noting that dozens of false passports were uncovered following a Hamas leader's murder in the emirate.

“I ring alarm bells. Israel is falsifying Western passports on a large scale. We discover forged passports on a daily basis,” Chief of Dubai Police Dahi Khalfan Tamim told AFP.
“The world must stop an operation of vast falsification of official documents (that) a formal body (Israel's spy agency Mossad) is carrying out,” he added.
Mahmud al-Mabhuh, a founder of the Palestinian Islamic resistance movement Hamas’s military wing, was found dead in a room of the Al-Bustan Rotana hotel near Dubai's airport on January 20.
Australian foreign ministry announced Tuesday that there was a fourth Australian-passport holder on the Interpol list.
Two members of the hit squad had “returned to the United States after passing through a European country,” said Khalfan last week.
Israeli officials have refused to confirm or deny the reports.
But Israel's media sees the killing as Mossad's work, and the probe has caused a diplomatic headache for Israel with the countries whose passports were used summoning its envoys to hear angry protests.
Photo; Chief of Dubai Police Dahi Khalfan Tamim (Reuters photo)
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