A Mossad agent has apparently claimed that British intelligence was tipped off hours before about a high-profile assassination, and that British passports would be used.
Although the target, Hamas military leader Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, and the location, a luxury hotel in Dubai, were not named, the source told the Daily Mail that MI6 knew the operation was imminent.
The Mossad agent reportedly said that British ministers were “going through the motions” by calling in the Israeli ambassador Ron Prosor yesterday.
The Foreign Office, however, insists that ministers knew nothing about the six British passports, used to cover the identities of the assassins, before the names were released by Dubai police.
