The British state just can't resist its imperial impulses, this time offering up plans for destroying Hamas. It's just as well that the British intelligence community is one of the dumbest and most incompetent in the world, as shown recently in Afghanistan where they are still struggling to work out who is and isn't a member of the Taliban. Hamas lives on.
British intelligence helped draw up a secret plan for a wide-ranging crackdown on the Islamist movement Hamas which became a security blueprint for the Palestinian Authority, leaked documents reveal. The plan asked for the internment of leaders and activists, the closure of radio stations and the replacement of imams in mosques.
The disclosure of the British plan, drawn up by the intelligence service in conjunction with Whitehall officials in 2004, and passed by a Jerusalem-based MI6 officer to the senior PA security official at the time, Jibril Rajoub, is contained in the cache of confidential documents obtained by al-Jazeera TV and shared with the Guardian. The documents also highlight the intimate level of military and security cooperation between Palestinian and Israeli forces. more
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