GCIS/MSS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: WikiLeaks: Suleiman promised to stop Gaza elections

ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center

SOURCE: JPost

11February2011 7:46pmEST

GCIS/MSS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: Egyptian Vice President Omar Suleiman promised Israel in 2005 that he would prevent Hamas from gaining control over Gaza, according to a US diplomatic cable released on Friday.

According to the cable, which was leaked to WikiLeaks and published by Norweigan newspaper Aftenposten, Maj.-Gen. (res.) Amos Gilad, head of the Defense Ministry's Diplomatic-Security Bureau, secretly visited Suleiman, then the head of Egyptian intelligence, in September 2005. Gilad then reported on the visit to US diplomats in Tel Aviv. (read full report)

 

 

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