Dubai Hamas assassination: British passport holder in terrible strain

By Adrian Blomfield in Beit HaEmek Published: 5:07PM GMT twenty-five February 2010

Michael Barney, a British newcomer to Israel is experiencing "terrible strain" after guidance that his daughter"s temperament had been stolen, it is reputed by Mossad, 10 days after he himself had been held up in the plot.

The 54-year-old found himself personification an unexpected, and unwelcome, cameo in the genocide of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh after he was declared as one of eleven European suspects allegedly concerned in the killing.

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But his trouble was doubled when he detected that his daughter Gabriella, who is 23, was identified in a second organisation of suspects expelled by the Dubai military on Tuesday.

Both allegations came with no forewarning, causing shock in the Beit HaEmek kibbutz, nearby the Lebanese border, where the Barney family are popular, long-standing members of a tight-knit village only 500 strong.

Unsurprisingly, both Mr Barney and his daughter have struggled to cope with the remarkable ubiquitous inspection bearing on them. "He"s been underneath distressing aria given it happened," pronounced Mr Barney"s hermit Philip, who lives on the same kibbutz. "They were in shock. Gabi was positively hysterical."

The Barney family have come to take up a singular purpose in the amour surrounding a attempted murder tract most have related to Mossad, Israel"s abroad comprehension agency.

Of the twenty-six "European" suspects identified by Dubai, twelve have British passports, at slightest eleven of whom are well known to live in Israel.

Like Michael and Gabriella Barney, nothing appear to have had a purpose in the murdering over the actuality that they were impersonated by the assassins, who had someway managed to shape metal their passports.

Yet, with the difference of the Barneys, nothing of the alternative temperament burglary victims had connectors with each other, giving climb to conjecture that dual of the suspects acted as father and daughter during the plot.

The fake make make use of of of unfamiliar passports has caused regard and annoy in the countries affected. The twelve Britons, the assassins used the identities of 6 Irish nationals, 3 Australians, 3 Frenchmen and a German.

Australia, the ultimate nation held up in the saga, gave notice yesterday of critical consequences if Israel was found to have played a purpose in the "abuse" of the passports.

After summoning the Israeli ambassador, Stephen Smith, the Australian unfamiliar minister, pronounced that such actions, if proved, would not be regarded as "an movement of a friend". Kevin Rudd, the country"s budding minister, in jeopardy movement opposite Israel if it was found to be the culprit.

All 3 of the Australian pass holders are residents of Israel.

According to relatives, conjunction Michael nor Gabriella Barney had trafficked outward Israel for over a year and both had no thought how their identities could have been taken a identical story told by all those involved.

At the organisation itself, where Michael Barney has lived and worked as a technical bard for over twenty-five years, there was annoy and distraction at the family"s plight.

According to the ubiquitous secretary, Shlomit Gross, the organisation was home in the 1950s to people with probable connectors to the comprehension services who would mysteriously "disappear" for a week but no more.

She referred to that increasingly visit break-ins on the kibbutz, during that jewellery, money, papers and cars had been stolen, could insist the burglary of the Barneys" identities.