RELATED:'Dubai police chief claims Mossad threatened to kill him'Analysis: Was Mabhouh worth it?“We are trying to verify this information with our colleagues in Ottawa,” a senior source at the Canadian Embassy in the UAE told The Globe. “Tamim said we gave this info to the Dubai police, and we didn’t.”“A senior Canadian security official here told me in July that they have made an arrest of one of the suspects,” Tamim told The Globe and Mail in a telephone interview on Tuesday. “The person informed me then that this information was not to be released in the media and was only for the police. Since then we have not heard any more information and I don’t understand the secrecy.” According to Tamim, the suspect arrested was a member of the so-called assassination team that was caught on video in Dubai’s Al-Bustan Rotana hotel, where Mabhouh was killed in January. The suspect he claimed was arrested by Canada is seen in video footage carrying tennis equipment and stepping out of an elevator after Mabhouh.Mabhouh was a co-founder of Hamas’s military wing, Izzadin Kassam, and was the group’s senior operative in charge of smuggling weaponry from Iran, Syria and Lebanon to the Gaza Strip.
Canada denies Mabhouh murder suspect arrested
Dubai police chief's claim that an individual involved in the January assassination has been arrested is "baseless," officials say.
RELATED:'Dubai police chief claims Mossad threatened to kill him'Analysis: Was Mabhouh worth it?“We are trying to verify this information with our colleagues in Ottawa,” a senior source at the Canadian Embassy in the UAE told The Globe. “Tamim said we gave this info to the Dubai police, and we didn’t.”“A senior Canadian security official here told me in July that they have made an arrest of one of the suspects,” Tamim told The Globe and Mail in a telephone interview on Tuesday. “The person informed me then that this information was not to be released in the media and was only for the police. Since then we have not heard any more information and I don’t understand the secrecy.” According to Tamim, the suspect arrested was a member of the so-called assassination team that was caught on video in Dubai’s Al-Bustan Rotana hotel, where Mabhouh was killed in January. The suspect he claimed was arrested by Canada is seen in video footage carrying tennis equipment and stepping out of an elevator after Mabhouh.Mabhouh was a co-founder of Hamas’s military wing, Izzadin Kassam, and was the group’s senior operative in charge of smuggling weaponry from Iran, Syria and Lebanon to the Gaza Strip.