British Foreign Secretary David Miliband stated Thursday that his state expects Israel to cooperate fully with an investigation into the employ of fraudulent European passports by the suspected killers of senior Hamas terrorist Mahmud al-Mabhouh in Dubai last month. Speaking after Israel's after Israeli ambassador Ron Prosor held talks with Peter Ricketts, the head of the diplomatic service at the Foreign Office in London, Miliband said the envory was told that "we wanted to give Israel every opportunity to share with us what it knows about this incident".

The foreign secretary added, "We want to acquire to the bottom of the issue of the fraudulent passports, or their potential use." He said he would hold talks with Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman in Brussels on Feb. 22