This past week the bad guys lose and the good guys win - two terrorist big dogs are down !!

Three of eleven assassins and one very dead Hamas terrorist high valued leader.

The three Irish citizens who the Dubai authorities allege helped to assassinate a Hamas official do not exist, according to Ireland's Department of Foreign Affairs.

The Irish government says the trio of alleged passport-holders identified on Monday in Dubai as Gail Folliard, Evan Dennings and Kevin Daveron do not appear in Ireland's records of legitimate passport-holders.

"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 to The Associated Press.

The Irish government says the passport numbers publicised by Dubai authorities also are counterfeits, because they have the wrong number of digits and contain no letters.

Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, a senior figure in the military wing of Hamas, was found dead in a hotel room on Jan 20. According to one report he was killed by a female assassin who entered his room by posing as a member of hotel staff, injected him with a drug that induced a heart attack and hung a “Do Not Disturb” sign on the door.

But other officers said he was strangled, probably after receiving an electric shock.

Hamas, the Islamist group that controls Gaza, blamed Israel’s Mossad intelligence service for the killing.

But video footage and a series of passport photographs released by the Dubai police suggested a much more convoluted and bizarre operation than is normally associated with Mossad, which has a reputation for ruthless professionalism.

Gen Dahi Tamim, Dubai’s police chief displayed a series of passport photographs showing 10 men and a woman at a press conference.

Most of the individuals appeared to be of Middle Eastern origin, even thought they carried passports with European-sounding names.

As well as the three with Irish passports, six carried British passports, while the other two had French and German documents.

In a related story, the number 2 leader in the Taliban was captured by the Pakistanis a few days ago. This is a hugh capture. The man was the "inventor" of the road side bomb and the strategy related to that coward's weapon. He is currently being interrogated by the Pakistan army - who else over there has clearance to interrogate terrorists - certainly not the U.S. ??!!

Good thing we have allies or nothing much would get done --- jds.

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