(Daily Mail-UK) The British intelligence agency MI6 was tipped off that Israeli agents were going to carry out an "overseas operation" using fake British passports, it was claimed Thursday. A member of Mossad, the Israeli intelligence service, said the British Foreign Office was also told hours before a Hamas terrorist chief was assassinated in Dubai. The tip-off did not say who the target would be or even where the hit squad would be in action. A British security source who met the Mossad agent said: "This is a serving member of Israeli intelligence. He says the British Government was told very, very briefly before the operation what was going to happen." "There was no British involvement and they didn't know the name of the target. But they were told these people were traveling on UK passports." The security source said the tip-off was not a request for permission but more a "courtesy call." The Mossad man said Israeli intelligence chiefs understand British authorities will have to "slap them on the wrist." Intelligence sources say Hamas military leader Mahmoud al-Mabhouh was lured to a meeting in Dubai by two men who had worked with him in Hamas in Gaza. He did not realize they had defected to Fatah, bitter enemies of Hamas, and were secretly working with the Israelis.
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