Head of Dubai police: Israel’s Prisoner X didn’t cooperate with us
By Mourad Anouar
Morocco News Tribune
Oklahoma City, U.S.A—The Kuwaiti newspaper Al Jarida reported Thursday that Ben Zygier who most likely worked for the Mossad, was among the 26 suspects who assassinated Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, a Hamas official, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates in the Jan. 19, 2010, operation.
The Australian-Israeli Ben Zygier, recently identified as Prisoner X, was found dead in 2010 in a maximum-security prison cell in Israel.
Al Jarida added that Mr. Zygier had provided the authorities in Dubai with very critical information that might have prevented the 2010 assassination operation from happening in exchange for protection, but he was kidnapped and imprisoned by Israel on charges of treason about a month after the incident.
On the other hand, Alarabiya news website reported today that Dhahi Khalfan head of the Gulf emirate’s police, “the top-secret Israeli-Australian prisoner known as Prisoner X – found dead in 2010 in a Tel Aviv maximum-security prison after committing suicide – didn’t contact or cooperate with Dubai police”.