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DUBAI - Dubai's powerful police chief has given foreign intelligence services a week to leave the emirate and wider Gulf region after the killing of Hamas commander Mahmoud Al Mabhouh, Gulf News reports Wednesday.
"Those spies that are currently present in the Gulf must leave the region within one week," Dahi Khalfan Tamim told the Dubai-based paper in an interview. "If not, then we will cross that bridge when we come to it."
If enforced the order could deal a severe blow to Western security organizations such as the Central Intelligence Agency and MI6 that are known to use Dubai as a listening post in the Gulf.
Dubai is blaming Israel's intelligence service Mossad for masterminding the assassination of Al Mabhouh in Dubai on Jan. 19 in a complex operation that involved false passports. The emirate has named 27 suspects in the murder and issued arrest warrants.
Gulf News didn't specify whether Tamim was referring to all intelligence services, or specifically Mossad, in the report.
"Those spies that are currently present in the Gulf must leave the region within one week," Dahi Khalfan Tamim told the Dubai-based paper in an interview. "If not, then we will cross that bridge when we come to it."
If enforced the order could deal a severe blow to Western security organizations such as the Central Intelligence Agency and MI6 that are known to use Dubai as a listening post in the Gulf.
Dubai is blaming Israel's intelligence service Mossad for masterminding the assassination of Al Mabhouh in Dubai on Jan. 19 in a complex operation that involved false passports. The emirate has named 27 suspects in the murder and issued arrest warrants.
Gulf News didn't specify whether Tamim was referring to all intelligence services, or specifically Mossad, in the report.
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