PROBE 'A WASTE': A former Israeli senior investigator says that an Australian police probe in Israel into the use of forged Australian passports is a waste of taxpayers’ money. Boaz Guttman, a former officer with Israel’s National Fraud Unit, said that the Australian Federal Police team had ‘zero chance’ of making significant progress in its inquiry into the misuse of the passports of three Australians who live in Israel. The AFP team will try to speak to the three Australians with dual Israeli citizenship whose passport details were used with photographs of those allegedly involved in the assassination in Dubai on January 19 of Hamas commander Mahmoud al-Mabhouh. The killers also used forged British, Irish, French and German passports. A British team is in Israel. “Without belittling their capabilities, all of this is a show put on for domestic consumption by Britain and Australia, to show that they are doing something, Mr Guttman said. – The Australian