(Ha'aretz) Yossi Melman and Hagar Mizrahi - Iran is manufacturing special missiles for Hamas that can be smuggled through tunnels into Gaza, according to a WikiLeaks report of a conversation between IDF Deputy Chief of Staff Dan Harel and U.S. Ambassador to Israel James Cunningham on February 19, 2009. Harel noted that the Iranian version of the 122 mm rocket "was designed specifically for Hamas, as it came in four pieces that could fit through narrow tunnels and be reassembled in Gaza." Harel also said: "Cooperation against smuggling is better with [former] Egyptian Intelligence Chief Omar Suleiman than it is with Egyptian Military Commander Field Marshal Tantawi" (who is now head of the military council ruling Egypt).
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