Intelligence officials say Hamas operations in China are financial and include money laundering; In Turkey, Hamas recruits operatives.Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, has established a command post in Turkey that it uses to recruit new operatives and oversee some of its operations in the Middle East, the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) revealed on Wednesday.
| Command post in Turkey? These days they could open an embassy... |
One of the cells was working to carry out a suicide-kaboom in Jerusalem; the attack was thwarted. A senior Shin Bet official stressed, however, that the Hamas command post in Turkey was not directly involved in the cells that were captured, although one of the senior Hamas members who lives in Jordan also oversees operations in Syria, Turkey and China.
Shin Bet officials said Hamas operations in China were financial and included money laundering and procurement of equipment. In Turkey, Hamas is believed to be active in recruiting operatives.
On Wednesday, Strategic Affairs Minister Moshe Ya'alon accused Ankara of cooperating with Hamas and Iran. "How can you trust a government that consorts with Iran and Hamas?" Ya'alon asked during a speech he gave at a conference in Tel Aviv.
Hamas's best-known overseas presence is in Damascus
...The
City of Jasminis the oldest continuously-inhabited city in the world. It has not always been inhabited by the same set of fascisti...
, home to its political leader Khaled Mashaal. Hamas is believed to be the strongest overseas in Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Leb -- but could potentially work together with other groups, such as Hezbullies, to increase its reach.
The liquidation of senior Hamas military commander Mahmoud Mabhouh in 2010 in Dubai, blamed on the Mossad, shed light on Hamas's extensive operations overseas and how the group does not just operate in the Gazoo Strip and the West Bank.
Mabhouh was reported to have been in charge of procuring weapons for the group and working together with terrorist infrastructure in a number of countries in the Middle East and North Africa.