The Dubai police chief Dhahi Khalfan Tamim is seeking the arrest of the Israeli Prime minister and the Mossad chief over the killing of the Palestenian leader Al-Mabhouh.

Dhahi Khalfan Tamim said that he would be asking the Prosecution of Dubai to issue arrest warrants for the Isreali Premier Binyamin Netanyahu and the Mossad chief Meir Dagan.

The Dubai police are certain that the top brass of Israel was involved in the assassination of Mabhouh, a Palestinian leader. This is not the first time that Israeli agents have been caught carrying out an assassination. The Israeli authorities have neither denied nor accepted this claim of the Dubai police, despite the fact that Dubai is taking this event as a very high profile diplomatic offence.

The assassination has led to investigations in Britain, Germany Ireland and Australia – countries whose passports the assassins were carrying. In consequence the UAE is planning a ban on all Israeli citizens carrying foreign passports from entering their country.