Report: Hamas leader says hundreds of militants trained in Iran, Syria

[oberliner]

Hamas has sent hundreds of militants to train in Iran and Syria in the past two years, a commander in the Iz al-Din al-Qassam military wing of Hamas said in a rare interview with The Sunday Times of London.

Speaking on the record but on condition of anonymity, the Hamas commander, already a senior figure in his late twenties, told the British newspaper that Hamas had been sending militants to Iran for training in both field tactics and weapons technology since Israel pulled out of the Gaza Strip in 2005. Others, he said, go to Syria for more basic training.

We have sent seven 'courses' of our fighters to Iran," he said in the interview. "During each course, the group is trained to increase our capacity to fight."

The most promising members of each group stay longer for an advanced course and return as trainers themselves, he said, adding "We send our best brains to Tehran. It would be a waste of money to send them and then have them come back with nothing."

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/962279.html

[Purveyor]

1. Anonymous source from Rupert Murdoch's 'Sunday Times'... Enough said.

[henank]

2. A senior Hamas commander gave this information

See right here on this board.

Is an anonymous source not good enough for you when it shows up Hamas as the Iran-proxy that it is, but anonymous sources are plenty good enough for you when it serves your purpose to "prove" that Israel commits "war crimes"?

Why is it so difficult to accept the words of the terrorists at their face value? It's anyway obvious that Hamas are being funded from somewhere. It's not from Israel. It's not from Jordan. It's not from Egypt. Highly unlikely that Saudi is involved. Which leaves Iran. Or Syria. Same difference.

[hifalutin]

4. Sometimes

'the agenda' is more important than 'the truth'

[oberliner]

3. Do you think there was no interview and that the Times made up the story?

Or do you think that there actually was an anonymous Hamas source but he was feeding The Times reporter some BS?

Not sure what you are suggesting.