Hamas founders son spied for Israel, report claims

Published: 4:59PM GMT twenty-four February 2010

Mosab Hassan Yousef, 32, was one of the majority profitable sources for Shin Bet, Israel"s inner comprehension agency, the Israeli journal Haaretz reported on Wednesday.

His reports led to the arrests of Ibrahim Hamid, once the Islamic belligerent group"s troops arch in the West Bank, and Abdullah Barghuti, the explosve builder at the back of an barbarous 2001 self-murder conflict on a grill in Jerusalem.

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Mr Yousef was additionally pronounced to have played a purpose in the detain of Marwan Barghuti, a comparison Fatah personality deliberate the designer of the 2000 intifada, or uprising.

Mr Yousef"s father - Sheik Hassan Yousef - was a initial part of in the 1980s of Hamas, the Iranian-backed transformation that seized carry out of the Gaza Strip in 2007 and has been branded a militant organization by Israel and the West.. He is now portion a six-year judgment in an Israeli prison for his domestic activities.

The younger Mr Yousef, who was well known by his Shin Bet handlers as "The Green Prince", converted to Christianity and changed to California in 2007.

If the Haaretz inform is true, the explanation would understanding an additional reversal to Hamas, that is disorder from the gangland slaying of a tip user in Dubai last month. There have been reports that a Hamas insider assisted the killers.

Mushir al-Masri, a Hamas spokesman, denied the inform and indicted Haaretz of "fabrications and lies".

Mr Yousef"s memoir, "Son of Hamas", is being published subsequent week in the United States by Tyndale House Publishers.

An mention from the book on his Facebook page describes Mr Yousef"s tour as one that "jeopardised Hamas, involved his family and in jeopardy his life".

But it additionally says Mr Yousef"s attribute with Shin Bet helped frustrate an Israeli plan to murder his father.

Speaking with Haaretz, Mr Yousef pronounced Shin Bet agents initial approached him in prison in 1996 and due he penetrate the top echelons of Hamas. He did so successfully and is credited by Israel with saving hundreds of Israeli lives.

Shin Bet officials declined criticism on the Haaretz article, but the techniques described in the inform - recruiting a intensity representative in prison and targeting a family part of of a profitable aim - are believed to be usual strategy used by the agency.