Collège Samuel de Missy
IES Josep Miquel Guàrdia
Liceo Linguistico, sez. staccata Liceo Classico “G. Leopardi”
Radyr Comprehensive School
Rsg de Borgen
Salzmannschule Schnepfenthal
1ο ΓΕΝΙΚΟ ΛΥΚΕΙΟ ΤΡΙΑΝΔΡΙΑΣ 1st lyceum of Triandria
This article is about a crime. It was the 20th January 2010 when Hamas leader Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, 49, was killed in his hotel room in Dubai. The murderers used 11 faked passports: 6 British, 3 Irish, a French and a German one. The criminals have not been found until now. However, the Hamas blames Israel and the world is in fear about their passport safety.
Mahmoud al-Mabhouh was a big leader of the largest and most influential right-winged Palestinian military movement: The Hamas. The Arabic word “Hamas” means zeal, in addition it’s an acronym for "Harakat al-Muqawama al-Islamiya" or Islamic Resistance Movement. It’s believed, that they have more than thousand active members and thousands more of sympathizers and supporters. Since their takeover of power in elections in 2006, they have set the stage for a power struggle. With their official charter they wanted to move far away from the ethos of nonviolence. As a result, a lot of terrorist activities followed in the Palestinian territories of the West Bank and Gaza Strip and inside the borders of Israel. In the first instance, there were a lot of suicide bombings and attacks using mortars and short-range rockets. The Hamas believes, that they have to kill Jews to go to heaven, besides that they want to reach the total destruction of Israel.
The murderers of al-Mabhouh have not been found yet . It is a worldwide secret how they were able to fake 11 passports in our times. For a passport you need: your given name, surname, day of birth, date of birth, habitation, sex, height, colour of the eyes, an ID photo and your signature. Additionally, in Germany they have to take two fingerprints since November 2007. As an additional security feature an Identigram was established in November 2009 on the front side of the passport. The photo and the machine-readable zone become holographic . Furthermore, the federal eagle is represented as a hologram three-dimensional.
Whilst the brother of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh is beside himself with rage, people in the whole world are unsatisfied with their security. It is not clear what the future technology in questions of safety might bring. But I believe, that from now on a lot of new measures will appear.
Madeleine Baldauf (10/2)
