Saturday, 9 April 2011

'The effort to cripple Hamas' capabilities is no longer confined to Gaza'

Via FLC

".... In the past two months, Israeli operatives have intercepted a German ship in international waters, fired a missile at a suspected Hamas leader in Sudan, and captured a Hamas engineer in the Ukraine, ....  the effort to cripple Hamas' military capabilities is no longer confined to the Gaza Strip alone, but to the entire Hamas global network and that of its allies."....  "This is a policy of intelligence-based prevention, which has stepped up in recent months," an Israeli national security official, who asked not to be named, told The Washington Times. "One part of the strategy is prevention."...  Because the covert campaign targets leaders and is often done in secret, the diplomatic damage to Israel for these actions tends to be muted..."
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