- TEHRAN (MNA) - The Israeli
intelligence agency Mossad failed in an attempt to assassinate the new
Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal.
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- Reports from reliable sources indicate that five Yemeni
Jews disguised in Muslim clothing recently took part in a ceremony held
in commemoration of former Hamas leader Abdel-Aziz al-Rantissi.
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- They had entered the Yarmook camp in Damascus to meet
with Khaled Meshaal and Mousa Abu Marzook, a high-ranking member of the
Hamas political office.
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- The five members of the group who were commissioned by
Mossad to assassinate Khaled Meshaal in Damascus were captured by his bodyguards
before they could take any action.
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- The five men were then handed over to Syrian security
forces but have not yet been identified.
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- During interrogations the men confessed that they entered
Syria through Jordan and were commissioned by the Mossad to assassinate
Khaled Meshaal and Mousa Abu Marzook.
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- Hamas leader Abdel-Aziz al-Rantissi was killed by a Zionist
helicopter missile strike in Gaza City on April 17.
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- This was the Mossad,s second failed assassination attempt
against Khaled Meshaal.
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- The Mossad first attempted to assassinate Meshaal by
dispatching an assassination team to Jordan on September 25, 1997, when
agents carrying forged Canadian passports tried to kill Meshaal by injecting
him with poison.
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- Following the attack, former Jordanian King Hussein announced
that the Mossad agents would all be executed if an antidote was not sent
to Jordan in 48 hours. Meshaal,s life was saved after an Israeli doctor
delivered an antidote for the poison.
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