1. Mahmoud Abdel Rauf al-Mabhouh was the chief of logistics and weapons procurement for Hamas's military wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades.
20 Facts About Mahmoud al-Mabhouh
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Mahmoud al-Mabhouh is remembered for his assassination in Dubai and the diplomatic crisis his assassination triggered after Mossad agents allegedly used forged foreign passports to carry out the killing.
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Mahmoud al-Mabhouh planned the abduction and killing of two Israeli soldiers in Gaza in 1989.
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In more recent years, Mahmoud al-Mabhouh had played an important role in procuring weapons for the al-Qassam Brigades.
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In 2010, journalists Yossi Melman and Dan Raviv alleged that Mahmoud al-Mabhouh had played a vital role as the middleman in forging secret relationships between Hamas and the Quds Force in Iran.
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Mahmoud al-Mabhouh quit secondary school, trained as a car mechanic and later became a garage owner.
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Mahmoud al-Mabhouh spent most of 2003 in an Egyptian jail.
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At the time of his death, Mahmoud al-Mabhouh was wanted by the Israeli, Egyptian and Jordanian governments, and living in Syria.
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Just before his killing, Mahmoud al-Mabhouh was alleged to have played a key role in forging secret connections between the Hamas government in Gaza and the Al-Quds Force of the Revolutionary Guard in Iran.
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Mahmoud al-Mabhouh was assassinated in an Israeli attack during the 2014 Israel-Gaza conflict.
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On 19 January 2010, Mahmoud al-Mabhouh was killed in his room in a hotel in Dubai.
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Mahmoud al-Mabhouh had been followed by at least eleven Mossad agents who were carrying fake or fraudulently obtained passports from various Western countries, seven of which assumed the names of Israeli dual citizens.
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Reports indicated that Mahmoud al-Mabhouh was very closely tracked by his killers from Damascus airport to Dubai.
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Mahmoud al-Mabhouh was travelling without bodyguards, and was en route to Bangkok.
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Mahmoud al-Mabhouh left the hotel about an hour after check-in, and there were conflicting reports as to what he did during the few hours before he was killed.
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Mahmoud al-Mabhouh failed to answer a call from his wife a half-hour later.
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When Mahmoud al-Mabhouh arrived at around 3 pm, two of the agents on CCTV followed him to his room wearing tennis gear.
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At 8 pm Mahmoud al-Mabhouh left the hotel and while several of the suspects kept watch, two tried to gain entry to his room, but were disturbed when a tourist exited the nearby lift.
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Results from a preliminary forensic report by the Dubai police found that Mahmoud al-Mabhouh was first paralyzed by an injection of succinylcholine, a fast-acting muscle relaxant.
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Signs strongly indicated that Mahmoud al-Mabhouh attempted to resist as he was being killed.