(60 Minutes - CBS) Lesley Stahl - Iraq and Iran are secretly financing and directing acts of terrorism against Israel, according to information found in captured PA files and gleaned from prisoner interrogations. Ido Hecht, a senior intelligence official, said Israel has captured members of a terrorist cell operating near Ben-Gurion Airport who admitted they were trained in Iraq in the use of shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles. Israelis also say the Palestinian Authority is earning kickbacks by illegally selling smuggled Iraqi oil, in order to buy weapons like those confiscated from the freighter Karine A last January, including two tons of C-4 plastic explosive. The weapons and explosives come from Iran. Additional documents show how Iran is helping to finance terrorist organizations operating inside Israel. "We have been interrogating hundreds, thousands of Palestinians since April of this year, and found some that were trained in Iran," said Col. Miri Eisen of the IDF.
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