WikiLeaks: UAE considered keeping Hamas hit quiet

Dubai, United Arab Emirates (AFP) - diplomatic cable published recently by the UAE authorities Wikileaks clarify the issue of whether to remain silent on the assassination of a high-level Hamas members in Dubai in January.

The documents also show that the UAE has sought the assistance of the United States in tracking down details of the Dubai Police believe that the use of credit cards by foreign commandos participate in the killing. The wide range of fiction murder, espionage, and a false passport and murderers in disguise, as the work of Israeli intelligence agents.

Dubai officials did not mention the death of Mahmoud al-publicly until Jan 29 - discovered nine days after her body in the hotel room and closed the airport just after Hamas declared itself and murder.

Belated recognition, and after discussions at the highest levels of the Government of the United Arab Emirates, where officials discussed whether "to say nothing at all, or that the full range or more less than the investigations of the United Arab Emirates," according to a cable.

He noted at the outset to the police, the killers as "a gang of criminals experienced" travel with a European passport, and blamed later in the Israeli spy agency Mossad directly. Hamas also accused Israel of the assassination.

Israel has never admitted the statement made by the fire.

The cables, which were released on Saturday, does not shed new light on the identity of the killers. But in one, the U.S. ambassador in Abu Dhabi, capital of the United Arab Emirates refers to the possible motives behind the decision of the United Arab Emirates to reveal details and finally murder.

"It was seen as something to say to protect the Israelis, and at the end, chose the United Arab Emirates to say everything," wrote Ambassador Richard Olson. "It was a carefully written statement not to point any fingers, but the reference ... and will read the gang holding Western passports locally as referring to the Mossad."

Cable applies to the UAE last February 24 with the United States in tracking down information about the cardholder and other relevant information for the credit card associated with the suspected killers.

Dubai police say thousands of alleged members of the commando to use prepaid credit cards issued by the bank in the state of Iowa, which was distributed by another company, known as the United States of Payoneer.

Officials have acknowledged the United States Embassy on the details of the request to the FBI and urged Washington to deal with emergencies, according to the cable.

Media said that the Dubai Government to consider the information and make any comment Tuesday.