Spy Case Casts Light on Hezbollah Recruitment in Germany

A young Israeli man who studied in Germany has been arrested on espionage charges in Israel. Khaled K., of Palestinian descent, allegedly spied for the Hezbollah Shiite militia. His case is expected to highlight Hezbollah recruiting activities in Germany.

When Khaled K. stepped off the plane from Germany to start his summer vacation, it wasn't his family that awaited him at the gate. Instead Shin Bet agents and police greeted the 29-year-old Israeli man of Palestinian descent when he arrived on July 16 at Israel's Ben Gurion International Airport. He was arrested and disappeared into custody for two weeks until Israeli officials filed charges against him on Wednesday and lifted a gag order on coverage of his arrest.

AFP

Hezbollah might be more active in Germany than officials thought.

The charges filed by state prosecutors are serious. They allege the man, who comes from the Israeli-Arab town of Kalanswa, sought contact with an agent with connections to Hezbollah in an effort to pass on information.

The indictment alleges he also supplied names of potential recruits to the Shiite militia and that he had expressed his preparedness to take a job at the Rambam Hospital in the Israeli city of Haifa after completing his studies in Germany, where he is enrolled as a student at the University of Göttingen near Hanover. Israeli soldiers in the 2006 war against Hezbollah are still being treated at the Rambam Hospital, and K. was apparently supposed to sound them out in order to obtain information that could be useful to Hezbollah.

Thanks.

It all starts with Tariq Ramadan and the Muslim Brotherhood’s infiltration of Germany and Europe. WSJ had an interesting series of articles about this too:

http://www.moralgroup.com/NewsItems/Islam/p20.htm (WSJ in full)

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1703639/posts

A Look at Iran
http://www.truthusa.com/IRAN.html

Topic: Hezbollah
http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/site/html/search.asp?isSearch=yes&isT8=yes&searchText=T104&pid=167&sid=13&preview=

ADDING full name of the suspect to this thread:

August 8, 2008, 2:47 pm

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1009379.html

“Israeli Arab charged with spying for Hezbollah”
By Amos Harel

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Khaled Kashkush, 29, an Israeli Arab from the town of Kalansua, was indicted yesterday for spying for the Hezbollah.”

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Authorities accuse Kashkush of supplying Hezbollah with information on Israel in general, and on other Arab Israelis studying abroad who would be willing to provide the Shi’ite group with intelligence. Kashkush is said to have applied for a job at a hospital where he could also get his hands on sensitive information on Israeli security personnel.

Hezbollah operatives are believed to have instructed Kashkush on ways to avoid detection by authorities.

In recent years, Hezbollah and Iran have boosted their efforts in enlisting Israeli Arabs and residents of the West Bank as agents for purposes of gathering intelligence, or even to carry out terrorist attacks in Israel. In a number of cases, Hezbollah has tried to recruit politicians. In April 2007, former MK Azmi Bishara (Balad) fled Israel after the Shin Bet suspected him of assisting Hezbollah. “

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Kashkush’s lawyer, Amnon Zichroni, told Haaretz that despite his client’s meetings with people connected to Hezbollah, Kashkush according to the charges did not provide them with any information that might harm Israeli security.”

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