Hamas official accused of helping Mossad hit squad

• Palestinian 'defectors' suspected of involvement in murder
• Police hunt six new suspects as more details of plot emerge

WARNING: DON'T BELIEVE EVERYTHING STATED IN THIS PIECE; IT HAS A LOT OF DISINFORMATION.

Ian Black, Paul Lewis, Kate Connolly
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 17 February 2010

"A key security operative of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas was under arrest in Syria tonight on suspicion of having helped an alleged Israeli hit squad identify Mahmoud al-Mabhouh before he was assassinated in Dubai, the Guardian has learned.

Palestinian sources in the Gulf confirmed Nahro Massoud, a Hamas security official, was in detention and under interrogation in Damascus in connection with the 19 January killing, which is now widely assumed to have been mounted by Israel's Mossad secret intelligence service.

Khaled Mishal, Hamas's political leader, denied the allegation. "It is not correct at all," he said, as Hamas sources suggested a disinformation campaign by the group's Fatah rival. But informed Palestinian sources insisted Massoud was being questioned amid mounting speculation that potentially senior Palestinian defectors may have assisted in the plot......"