No surprise here. By Steven Erlanger for the New York Times, :
TEL AVIV, March 5 — The chief of Shin Bet, the Israeli internal security service, said Monday that the Islamic movement Hamas had sent dozens of men from Gaza to Iran for military training.“We know that Hamas has started to dispatch people to Iran, tens, and a promise of hundreds,” the intelligence chief, Yuval Diskin, told a small group of correspondents here in a rare on-the-record briefing.
The training would last months, perhaps years, he said, adding, “I see this as the strategic danger, more than any weapons smuggled into Gaza.”
Ahmed Youssef, an adviser to Ismail Haniya, the Hamas-backed Palestinian prime minister, responded from Gaza by telephone that Hamas “has not sent anyone to Iran,” and that Mr. Diskin’s comment was “propaganda, to hurt a new government.”
Sure.
...I would theorize this is not a new development or phenomenon.....Iranian trained terrorists are probably in every terrorist arena today...
I just came across a book online that is very lengthy so I haven't had time to peruse it.
"Iran, Hizbullah, Hamas, and the Global Jihad"
http://www.jcpa.org/text/iran-hizbullah-hamas.pdf?tr=y&auid=2426668
(from www.theisraelproject.org )
-XRDC
Israel just needs to pull up the trousers, don the battle gear, and be prepared to go out fighting.....after thousands of years of this nonsense, it is time to just put your foot down and say "no more".......We appreciate your friendship and have cherished our relationship...after we are gone, will anyone care?...
I didn’t see the maps on the original pdf file but here they are:
(I hope these links work)
Five color maps detail The Global Reach of Iranian-Sponsored Terrorism http://jcpa.org/text/iran-book-map1.pdf?tr=y&auid=2426672
Iranian Political-Military Involvement Across the Middle East
http://jcpa.org/text/iran-book-map2.pdf?tr=y&auid=2426673
Shiite Populations in the Middle East
http://jcpa.org/text/iran-book-map3.pdf?tr=y&auid=2426674
Iran's Growing Missile Capabilities
http://jcpa.org/text/iran-book-map4.pdf?tr=y&auid=2426675
International Terrorist Attacks by Al-Qaeda
http://jcpa.org/text/iran-book-map5.pdf?tr=y&auid=2426676
-XRDC
I believe Israel. I trust their intelligence a hell of a lot more than our own or any in Europe for that matter.
Israel needs to get rid of that useless lefty-liberal they have RUINING their country and they need Bibi at the helm.
Yuval Diskin is an idiot times 10. This Olmert cabal admits weapons are being allowed into Gaza to murder Judeans as a threat but a bigger threat is Iranian trained Philistines.
Isn't that like comparing dying from a bullet is a bigger threat than having your head cut off????
NONE of this should be allowed to be going on!
This though is another plank story of "those wicked Iranians", so when either a mass murder occurs or the IDF bombs Iran that it will be public opinion justified.
Hey Diskin....what about Syria with chemical and biological weapons aimed at Tel Aviv.....what about their trained terrorists now attacking Judeans?
Aren't they a threat?
Iran is also training women...
Israel has to whine because it's not allowed to act.To defend themselves would be a crime against humanity.
You know hezbola brags that it won the last war just because it survived.Well let me point out to the deleriatics ( i made a new word,delerium amd lunatics ) that they have yet to kill israel off and they have a whole nation state to frolic in...HAHAHA.They could also take lebanon if they desired to do so.So much for the pat on your shoulders big guys.....sorry to point out yet another failure of the horde.
As i have stated many many times Israel should tell the world community to screw off and do as they see fit it's been a long time comming for the new chapters of history to be written.It's time to kill the ground hog and end the useless circle.Islam is wanting to martyr itself all infedels should feel abliged to aid in any way possible.
And all that jazz
Yet another among myriad existing reasons to bomb Iran back into the stone age (i.e., about two or three years). That this world remains so willfully ignorant of Iran's near constant treachery and sponsorship of international terrorism forbids them any right to criticize America or Israel when they take unilateral action against these Islamic cesspits.
and this comes as not surprise to anyone except the left that is totally blind to all things islamic..............
when is the US and/or Israel going to stop the stupidity in Iran???????????
Iran has probably also been busy at work training al-Qaeda and members of other Islamic terror networks.
None of this should surprise anyone who has been following the news on international terrorism with any consistency.
Israeli Says Iran Is Training Hamas Men
Stretching a definiton, no?