Bloomberg reports:
Suspected assassins of a Hamas leader in Dubai “fraudulently” acquired prepaid payroll cards and stole identities to obtain jobs at U.S. companies, according to card-issuer MetaBank.
Authorities informed Meta, a unit of publicly traded Meta Financial Group Inc., that the suspects used fake passports to get cards issued by the firm and other banks, according to an e- mailed statement from Meta yesterday. The lender, rooted in regions of Iowa and South Dakota tied to farming, said it followed proper procedures and that the people weren’t on federal lists designed to block potential terrorists.
“No other readily apparent method existed for Meta to determine that identity theft had been perpetrated on valid governments and their citizens,” said MetaBank, based in Storm Lake, Iowa.
Fourteen of the suspects in the January killing of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh used payment cards issued by MetaBank to book hotel rooms and pay for air travel, Dubai police said last month. Police Chief Dahi Khalfan Tamim accused Israel’s spy agency, Mossad, of orchestrating the murder of al-Mabhouh, a founder of the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Islamic Palestinian movement Hamas.
Next question: which US companies?
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What the hell is going on here? If the eyes are open, then all this B.S. about G.S. screwing the world, Israel knocking off the ones they don’t like, can be put in one very small box. Wake up World, your about to experience w.w.3 in the Middle East. Think not? Keep believing the “SPIN” , but it won’t protect or excuse you turning a blind eye towards what is taking place. To continue, will only encourage the powers to be to continue leading the lemmings down the path until they reach the ocean.