Loyalty to the Resistance bloc MP Nawwaf Moussawi told AFP on Tuesday that security must be stepped up for all foreigners entering Lebanon as they could be secret agents like those who murdered a top Hamas militant in Dubai.

"We must tighten foreign passport control at the airport and elsewhere in the country," Moussawi said, adding "Every Lebanese and Arab must deal with holders of foreign passports as potential spies."

This comes after Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, a founder of the military wing of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, was found dead in his Dubai hotel room on January 20.

Dubai police have said he was drugged then suffocated in what they say was a Cold War-style hit carried out by Israel's Mossad secret service.
British, Irish, French, Australian and German passports were used in the murder, the police said.

Moussawi slammed European states for failing to "assume responsibility for the violation of their sovereignty" over the use of their passports by Mabhuh's killers in Dubai.

"If European countries do not respect their own passport-holders, then they must expect they will be treated with suspicion," he said.
Moussawi said Israeli journalists with EU passports had also entered Lebanon during the 2006 July war.

"It happened in Lebanon in 2006, so the risk of it happening again is more than likely," said the MP.

-AFP/NOW Lebanon