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Son of Hamas Leader was Top Spy for Israel

Posted by Glezele Vayne on February 24, 2010

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by Gil Ronen

(IsraelNN.com) Mosab Hassan Yousef, son of jailed Hamas terrorist leader Sheikh Hassan Yousef, operated undercover in the service of Israel’s intelligence agency for a decade. Yousef reveals this information in an upcoming book, and in an interview with Israeli newspaper Haaretz to be published this weekend.

According to the newspaper, the intelligence Yousef supplied led to the arrests of several high-ranking terrorists including Ibrahim Hamid, a Hamas terror commander in Judea and Samaria, as well as Fatah strongman Marwan Barghouti and Hamas bomb-maker Abdullah Barghouti.

Mosab Hassan Yousef converted to Christianity and moved to the U.S. in 2007, where the book he co-wrote, Son of Hamas, is due to be published shortly. He said that after he converted to Christianity, he decided he had to escape and “live my life away from violence, because I couldn’t coexist with that situation as a Christian.”

“He provided very important information [as did] hundreds of others fighting against terror,” MK Gideon Ezra (Kadima), formerly deputy chief of the Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet), told BBC World Service.

Haaretz said that Yousef “was considered Shin Bet’s most reliable source in the Hamas leadership.”

“The amazing thing is that none of his actions were done for money,” said his ISA handler, who is named in the book as “Captain Loai.”

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From Glezele Vayne

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