More on the Dubai hit

The AP has a story that isn’t getting nearly as wide release as the stories about the Mossad being responsible for the Dubai hit, but it’s interesting for what countries are doing—and not doing—to find the killers.

A killer – or killers – may be on the loose in Europe after a Hamas operative was slain last month in Dubai. European nations, however, seem to be in no rush to find him, her or them. The spotlight is falling on those countries where police say the alleged assassins’ trails begin and end: Switzerland, Italy, France, Germany and the Netherlands.

Authorities there have either declined to say whether they are investigating, or told The Associated Press they have no reason to hunt down the 26 suspects implicated in the Jan. 19 killing of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh.

Perhaps this is why they’re not bothering to investigate:

France, meanwhile, has said it is only probing the alleged use of three French passports in the crime. Two suspects landed in Paris on Jan. 20. Their trail ends there.

But here is the money graf, the buried lede, the most important piece of information that the AP chose to put in the third-to-last paragraph:

Only Austria has gone further and investigated whether Austrian SIM cards were used. Interior Ministry spokesman Rudolf Gollia declined to provide details about the findings except to say there are no indications that there was a “command center” in Austria, as Dubai police have claimed.

In other words, the Dubai police are lying, the Austrians (no friends to Israel and Jews) have effectively said this, and the AP buries this evidence in a little-read story on the Saturday news cycle.

I’m shocked, shocked, to discover that the AP buries this information.