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9/27/2004 12:26:22
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 Subject: The traitors among Arabs
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When Iz a Din al-Sheikh Khalil's white SUV exploded into flame and smoke a few meters from his Damascus home, killing the senior Hamas official, the suspicions of one of Khalil's colleagues turned to treachery.
Israel’s Mossad is widely suspected of responsibility.
Two days before the Sunday blast, the London-based Al-Hayat daily reported that an Arab state had supplied Israel with highly detailed intelligence on Hamas leaders living in Damascus, Beirut, Tehran and Khartoum.
According to the paper, the intelligence service of the unnamed Arab country passed on the information response to a request by Mossad chief Meir Dagan. Dagan's appeal came in the wake of a Hamas suicide bus bombing that left 16 dead in Be'er Sheva last month.
The intelligence reportedly included personal data - down to supper preferences - covering a number of the officials at the top of Israel's most-wanted lists, headed by the ranking "diaspora" Hamas figure Khaled Mashal, his deputy Moussa Abu Marzouk, and others.
According to Jewish and Arab sources there has been cooperation between Israeli secret services and its Arab opposite numbers. It is a common knowledge that there is certain cooperation between Israel and some Arab intelligence bodies, above all Jordan, which is not a secret, Egypt to a very limited degree, Morocco and Tunisia to a small extent, and the United Arab Emirates.
The contacts between Israeli and Arab intelligence agencies are largely based on encounters at the diplomatic-intelligence level. Once you have these sorts of relations, they are based on give-and-take, one back scratching the other. In the past, the Zionist state helped Arab regimes with intelligence on planned assassination attempts against their rulers, dissidents, and terrorist plots. For example, several times Mossad warned King Hussein of attempts on his life. In 1961, Israel provided French leader Charles de Gaulle of a plot on his life by the OSS, the French settlers in Algeria.
 
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