Six more innocent Britons were thrust into the international murder plot of a Hamas leader after it emerged yesterday that their identities had also been stolen.
The revelation means at least 12 British identities were cloned to carry out the audacious hit on Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in Dubai.
Dubai police yesterday identified 15 new suspects over the attack at a luxury hotel, bringing the total number to 26.
Wanted: One of the 15 new suspects in the assassination of Hamas commander Mahmoud al-Mabhouh was travelling on this British passport under the name Gabriella Varney
Assassinated: Mahmoud al-Mabhouh
The assassination, which bears allthe hallmarks of a spy novel, is widely believed to be the work ofIsrael"s feared secret service Mossad.
Among the six newBritons named yesterday is Gabriella Barney, 23 - whose father Michaelwas among the first group of "suspects" to be named.
The father and daughter live in Israel on dual passports.
Relatives of those named yesterday expressed their fear and worry over the development.
The other Britishpassport owners were named as Daniel Marc Schnur, 32, Roy Allan Cannon,62, Stephen Keith Drake, 54, Mark Daniel Sklar, 30, and Philip Carr,35. Three Irish passport holders, three Australians and three Frenchwere also on the list.
Al-Mabhouh was electrocuted and suffocated in his hotel room on January 20.
At one point last year nofewer than nine of the suspects were in Dubai at the same time, flyingin from November 6 to 8 and leaving between November 8 and 10.
Israel has repeatedlyrefused to confirm or deny its involvement, but Danny Danon, a leadingIsraeli politician, last night applauded the killing, describing as a"very successful mission".
Earlier this month, Dubaiauthorities released the names and photographs of 11 "agents withEuropean passports" - six from the UK, three Irish, one French and oneGerman. All four countries say the documents are fraudulent.
Within hours of the release of the second batch of names, it became clear that none of them were who they claimed to be.
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The other "Britons" named today: Above, left to right, Philip Carr, Mark Sklur, Daniel Schnur
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Left to right: Stephen Drake and Roy Cannon, both also named as suspects today. Right, the man posing as Michael Barney who was named as one of the original suspects by Dubai last week. The alleged British woman named today, Gabriella Barney, appears to have been posing as his daughter
Miss Barney"s uncle Philip expressed his shock that his family had been caught up in the saga for a second time.
He said: "I"ve just come from Gaby"s house and she has no idea yet. We"re all a bit worried."
Mr Sklar"s mother, Rachel, speaking from her home in Staines, West London, said her son lived and worked in Israel.
"It"s a major concern for us", she said, adding that neither she nor her son had been contacted by the Foreign Office.
She spoke to him yesterday after being contacted by journalists. "He was very shocked," she said. "It"s a bit worrying."
Shadow Foreign Secretary William Hague called on the Government to pressure Israel for answers.
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The female assassins: The other woman named and wanted by Dubai police include, left, a red-head travelling as an Irish citizen named Anna Shauna Clasby, and right, a brunette travelling on an Australian passport as Nicole Sandra McCabe
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Left, a woman posing as French citizen Melanie Heard; and right, another woman posing as an Irish citizen named Ivy Brinton. The above four, along with Gabriella Barney, were all named as suspects by Dubai police today. A woman posing as Irish citizen Gail Folliard was the first woman to be named as a suspect
He said: "The Governmenthas avoided addressing the crucial issue of whether they have soughtspecific assurance from Israel that it will not sanction, for whateverreason, the misuse of British passports."
This week Mr Miliband sought answers in a 45-minute private meeting with his Israeli counterpart Avigdor Lieberman.
The Green Prince: Son of Hamas founder "was top Israeli agent"The son of one of Hamas" founders served as a top informant for Israel for more than a decade, a newspaper has claimed.
Mosab Hassan Yousef, dubbed "the Green Prince" by his handlers, allegedly provided top-secret intelligence that helped prevent dozens of suicide bombings and other attacks against Israelis, Haaretz claimed.
He was one of the Shin Bet security service"s most valuable sources. His reports led to the arrests of several high-ranking Palestinian figures during the violent Palestinian uprising that began in 2000, according to the newspaper.
Yousef"s father - Sheik Hassan Yousef - was a founding member of the Islamic militant group Hamas in the 1980s. He is currently serving a six-year sentence in an Israeli prison for his political activities.
The younger Yousef converted to Christianity and moved to California in 2007.
If the Haaretz report is true, the revelation would deal another setback to Hamas, which is reeling from the assassination of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in Dubai last month.
Hamas accused Haaretz of "fabrications and lies".
Yousef"s memoir, "Son of Hamas", is being published next week in the United States by Tyndale House Publishers.
But he told the Foreign Secretary he had "no information to give" at this stage.
AtPrime Minister"s Questions Mr Durkan (Foyle) asked Mr Brown: "Can youconfirm that you condemn not only the use of false UK passports in acriminal operation but any act of state-sponsored assassinationanywhere?"
Mr Brown toldhim: "I can assure you that where there are questions about the misuseof British passports they have to be answered.
"We have set up and there is an investigation ongoing into the very incidents you have raised.
"I would not draw immediateconclusions without seeing the evidence and I think it is important tosee the evidence on this before any further conclusions are made.
"But I do agree with you we do not support state-sponsored terrorism in any country."
The laws on universal jurisdiction apply to all nations "and not just one country," Mr Brown added.
Israel has come under withering criticism fromsome quarters in Europe and elsewhere in the wake of the killing ofal-Mabhouh, who was found dead in his Dubai hotel room on January 20.
Dubaisecurity cameras picked up 18 members of what the country"s policecommander said was a hit team, adding that he was virtually certainMossad was to blame.
The suspects were seen on CCTV disguised as tourists, following al-Mabhouh to his hotel room in Dubai on January 20.
An assassination team was then seen going to his room while a surveillance team, including a blonde woman posing as an Irish citizen named Gail Folliard, kept lookout.
After just ten minutes, the team were seen walking out of the hotel. They fled the country within two hours, having spent less than 19 hours in Dubai overall.
Al-Mabhouh was believed to have been suffocated.
Some reports have claimed that a Hamas insider was part of the hit.
Israel has not confirmed or denied that Mossad was behind the hit, hiding behind a "policy of ambiguity".
A Dubai police handout shows all 26 of the alleged hit squad, with the names and nationalities they were travelling under
A "family tree" from the Dubai police helps chart the role each suspect played in the assassination
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