Abbas’s embassy in Pakistan hands over Palestinian to U.S. intelligence

[ 09/08/2010 - 05:30 PM ]

ISLAMABAD, (PIC)-- The security coordination between the PA and Israel is no longer limited to the borders of occupied Palestine, but has extended abroad in a new scandal by Abbas’s Palestinian embassy in Pakistan to serve Israeli plans.

Abbas’s embassy in Islamabad cooperated with the U.S. in the “war on terrorism,” after leading Palestinian Samer al-Baraq to the embassy headquarters and handing him over to CIA agents in 2003, an informed source told the PIC.

Samer was entrapped by Palestinian intelligence officer, Hossam Akkad, after he got close to him under the impression he worked for the Palestinian cause. He then arranged a meeting with the Pakistani station manager in Abbas’s intelligence named Anwar in the Islamabad embassy who handed him over to a patrol supervised by a CIA officer. He was then arrested and brought to Jordan.

According to the sources, Abbas’s intelligence informed the Israelis it was able to dismantle an al-Qaeda faction preparing to work in Palestine, and that Samer al-Baraq was a member of the group, allegedly having expertise in explosives and biological weapons.

The suspicious activity in Abbas’s embassy in Islamabad was no spur of the moment move. Talks about it began after the military takeover of Gaza and discovery of hundreds of papers documenting the role played by officers and agents in Fatah’s intelligence, most notably their spying for the Israeli Mossad and gathering information on Pakistan's nuclear program.

In 2005, Pakistani intelligence arrested Abbas’s intelligence envoy Hossam Akkad after he was proven to gather sensitive security information about Pakistan and its system of nuclear arms, and other information on al-Qaeda. Former president Mahmoud Abbas tried to intervene for his release during a visit by him, but Pakistani security forces declined. He remained in that prison for three months before being exiled.

Several Arab media outlets broadcasted in 2008 a number of reports on intelligence efforts by Abbas’s embassy in Islamabad to gather information on supporters of Palestinian resistance movements and Arab embassies there.

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