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US coordinated security with 'top Hamas agent'

World Net Daily learns director of major Palestinian security force suspected of working for Hamas. Meanwhile Hamas-affiliated sources say the group has infiltrated 'very deep' into Fatah

The director of a major Palestinian security force who coordinated security directly with US officials is suspected of being an agent for the Hamas terror organization, WND has learned.

 

Yussef Issa, director of the Preventative Security Services, is accused by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah organization of working on behalf of Hamas, Fatah sources said.

 

Issa was one of a handful of top Palestinian militia leaders to hold regular security meetings with Lt. Gen. Keith Dayton, the American security coordinator in the region. The meetings were largely aimed at implementing the Dayton Plan, which called for the US to strengthen Abbas' security forces against the rival Hamas group.

 

Last week an official Fatah committee presented Abbas with a 200-page investigation into the conduct of Fatah leaders and security officers who lost the Gaza Strip to Hamas last month. The report found the Fatah security forces in Gaza were infiltrated by "hostile elements," including Hamas.

 

A member of the inquiry committee said last week some 60 Fatah security officers would face courts-martial shortly. But Fatah sources said the actual number of suspected Hamas infiltrators was much larger.

 

A senior Abbas aide, Nabil Amr, who served on the committee, told reporters Fatah security forces were in a "state of infiltration" by Hamas.

 

Asked whether Issa was listed as a suspected Hamas agent, a member of Amr's team told WND he could not release any names. But the team member pointed out Issa has been living in Egypt since Hamas took over the Gaza Strip last month, refusing to return to the Fatah-controlled West Bank, and that Abbas recently downgraded Issa from colonel to the rank of soldier.

 

"So there's your answer. You can infer from that what you will," said the Amr team member.

 

A top Preventative Security Services source in Ramallah said Issa is suspected of being "one of the most important Hamas infiltrators in Fatah.

 

"Hamas has been buying off agents at all levels both in Gaza and in the West Bank," said the Preventative source. "The buying is still going on."

 

Hamas last month overtook all US-backed Fatah security compounds in the Gaza Strip and reportedly seized large quantities of US weaponry. According to Preventative sources, one hour before Hamas siezed the main Preventative Security Service building in Gaza City, Issa was smuggled out of the compound by Hamas' Special Forces.

 

"The bastard (Issa) was evacuated by Hamas and left his men defending the building. Fifteen Fatah soldiers were killed," said one Preventative source who fought in Gaza.

 

Hamas leader vow coup in West Bank  

The information comes as the US in recent days pledged large sums of aid to help bolster Abbas' militias and security forces in the West Bank.

 

Abu Abdullah, a senior member of Hamas' "military wing," told WND Fatah in the West Bank is heavily infiltrated by Hamas. "Fatah hasn't yet touched the extent of our infiltration (of their groups) in the West Bank."

 

Muhammad Abdel-El, spokesman for the Hamas-allied Popular Resistance Committees terror group, said his group and Hamas have infiltrated "very deep" in Fatah.

 

"We already are planning to obtain American weapons and takeover the West Bank like we did in Gaza with help from the Palestinian resistance, including elements in Fatah, the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades and the Fatah Security Services. The Committees and Hamas has infiltrated very deep in Fatah," Abdel-El said.

 

Top Hamas leaders vowed to soon stage a coup in the West Bank.

 

"The moment of our taking control in the West Bank is not far away," said Abu Yousuf, a senior aid to Hamas leader in Gaza Ismail Haniyeh.

 

Reprinted with the permission of WorldNetDaily  

 


פרסום ראשון: 07.30.07, 15:04
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