Police have already said the 11 suspects used forged passports in the names of innocent individuals of several European nationalities.

“Dubai police have information confirming that the suspects purchased travel tickets from companies in other countries with credit cards carrying the same names we have publicized (in the passports),” Al Bayan daily on Saturday quoted Dubai police chief Dahi Khalfan Tamim as saying. It did not give further details.

Palestinian Mahmoud Al-Mabhouh was found dead in his room in a luxury Dubai hotel on Jan. 20, a day after arriving in the emirate.

Meanwhile, Britain has offered new passports to six citizens whose identities were used by suspects in the assassination, to spare the Britons from inadvertent arrest under an Interpol alert, an official said on Friday.

Consular staff at the British embassy in Tel Aviv tracked down the six, all of whom live in Israel, after Dubai police said a hit squad had used their identities when entering the emirate.

France’s Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said the incident underscored the need for peace in the Middle East.

“(The case) shows the need for peace and a Palestinian state, immediately,” Kouchner said in an interview with Journal du Dimanche weekend paper, to be published on Saturday.