Iran could try to sabotage Gilad Shalit swap deal, mediator says

[oberliner]

Iran could still try and sabotage a prisoner exchange deal between Israel and Hamas that would set Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit free, top German intelligence officials said on Friday, adding that the situation will continue to remain "fragile" until Shalit's arrival in Israel.

The comments were made by the German mediator to the Shalit talks Gerhard Conrad and the head of German intelligence Ernst Uhrlau, who had aided Israel in talks geared at retrieving former IDF officer Elhanan Tannenbaum from Hezbollah captivity in 2004.

Speaking to reporters in the Berlin headquarters of German intelligence (Bundesnachrichtendienst, or BND), the officials expressed their satisfaction with the completed deal, and from their contribution to its completion, adding, however that the situation was still "fragile" until the terms of the deal take place on the ground.

The German officials especially stressed their fear of an Iranian move to sabotage the deal's execution, claiming that Iran, who wields significant influence on Hamas, was not happy about the Israel-Hamas agreement.

http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/iran-could-try-to-sabotage-gilad-shalit-swap-deal-mediator-says-1.389973

[azurnoir]

1. well that wouild be in keeping with the wishes of some in Israel

as we see here

Bereaved Families File Suit to Stop Terrorist Release

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=124x368538

[oberliner]

2. How about you?

What's your take on this?

[azurnoir]

3. well if it's supposedly Hamas big score then why would Iran do that?

so it seems that possibly Iran doesn't think Hamas (never sure about the plural of that seems redundant) then all the hoopla about that is wrong, as to Gilad's release I'm glad for his parents and thought Rabbi Ronsky was being a jerk for saying that he should have been declared dead, sitting Shiva for your child is horrible enough but doing it while he's still really alive, unthinkable IMO