EU condemns use of fake passports in Hamas assassination

The European Union has condemned the use of fraudulent EU passports in last month's assassination of a Hamas official in Dubai. EU foreign ministers said after meetings in Brussels that the assassination raised "profoundly disturbing" issues, adding that citizens' rights were violated.

The EU's foreign policy chief, Catherine Ashton, said the EU welcomes the investigation by Dubai authorities and called on all countries to cooperate with it. Meanwhile, EU countries are also carrying out full investigations. Dubai authorities say at least 11 assassins travelled on forged British, Irish, French and German passports to carry out the killing on the orders of Israel's spy agency Mossad. But during talks with European officials in Brussels, Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said there was nothing to link the agency to the killing.