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he was really sad.

It struck me that he's sosad.

He was ashamed of what happened.

It seemed like he's disappointed

that he couldn't help

in this case.

It was obvious that

this is a Hamas attack.

And this was maybe

the time I understood

that, you know,

he's not just a source.

He was there

for us all the time.

You don't talk about the fact

that actually he's a traitor.

This is like infection.

If you put

the mirror in his face,

it would finish everything.

Five years ago,

you were buying guns

and trying tokill people

that you are fighting now,

risking your life

tosave their lives.

That was like

a crazy transformation.

In my heart,

I understand the process,

I understand why I came

tothese conclusions.

While doing that, I kept

in mind where I'm coming from,

and everything

in my surroundings

reminds me of that.

But that change

was very, very radical,

tothe level that

you start tofeel

that you're living a dream.

He was considered

highly, highly dangerous.

What happened in the beginning,

the fact that he thought

about killing his handler,

as something that nothing

could clean from his record.

Nothing.

Doubt is the most important tool

for a handler.

If you don't doubt,

you will have a failure.

You have todoubt.

Now, for me, as a handler,

soon it was very hard todoubt,

and this is

a big danger for a handler,

when he forgets that

the source is not a friend,

but he's a potential enemy.

They exaggerated, you know,

with how they handled me.

They really exaggerated.

Like imagine just having

dozens of agents

just to bring you for a meeting,

while, you know,

you could just walk

to the meeting by yourself.

I remember once, there was

a song playing in the car,

and one of the officers

turned it off,

and I was like,

"Oh man, you just killed it,"

and I did this with my finger,

and he says,

"Well, why did you do that?"

I was like, "Dowhat?"

He's like,

"Dothis with your finger."

I was like, you know,

"I was expressing

that he killed the song."

And he was like,

"Don't dothis again."

And we start

a big, big argument.

I'm working with people

whodoes not

appreciate me somehow.

Or does not respect me.

Or does not trust me.

I was not fooled

by the Israelis' nice attitude.

Actually,

the attitude was not nice.

The attitude was rough.

They were always suspicious.

They were always playing

that they know everything,

but they did not

know everything.

And these kind of things,

you know, it was

big discouragement.

You're risking your life.

You're doing the impossible.

You're crossing all the lines.

You're somehow betraying

your family and culture,

and here you are, and...

they still don't trust you.

I felt that in order

to keep him as a source,

I need todosomething.

I met Mosab

without any bodyguards,

against the protocol.

It was like

something you don't do.

I know that Gonen was

breaking the law of the Agency.

And I knew that he could get

in lots of trouble doing that.

Now, tome, it was very

important, when he did that.

This meant tome

that this man trusts me,

and that was very,

very important for me toknow,

because I trusted him,

and I wanted tomake sure

that he can trust me too,

because the type of job

we were doing together

was very, very dangerous,

and that

was needed at that time.

From that point and on,

he was with me 150%.

The Green Prince called me,

and told me that

five suicide bombers

came and asked for his help.

We knew that we can easily

stop them,

but we alsoknew

that this would put Mosab

in a very difficult situation.

My brother's telling me

two strangers are outside.

They said, "We supposed tocarry

an operation soon,

and our guy,

our man, was arrested

by Israel a few days ago,

and it's not safe for us

tostay in the same house,

and we don't have money,

and we need someone

togive us a safe house."

I remember I just got

my salary from the Agency,

and I told them,

"Take the money,

gotothis address,

and tell the guy

that I sent you,

and give him the money,

and he will give you

a safe place tostay,

and wait for me there.

Don't goanywhere."

Killing them

is the easiest solution,

because if you kill them,

first of all,

you prevent the attack,

and secondly,

that person

cannot expose your source.

But for him,

it was very hard to...

tobe part of assassination.

If I was fighting

tostop killing of human beings

on the Israeli side,

I had tokeep

that level of integrity.

Even I knew that those people

were extremely dangerous.

I captured them, but we knew

that sooner or later

they will bring up his name

as someone that's helped them.

And this is a situation

where you can't just ignore it,

because if you ignore it,

you expose him.

So we arranged a huge scene

where Special Forces

came to Betounya,

where Mosab lived,

trying to capture him,

and he fled away

only seconds

before they arrived.

I needed to coordinate it

in a way that is realistic,

but not dangerous for him,

'cause they could shoot him.

They evacuated my family.

Now, Gonen was there

interrogating my mom,

asking her "Where is Mosab?"

and she says, "He escaped."

And Gonen was pretending

all the time that

"Noway, we know that

he's in the house,

and if he does not

surrender right now,

we're gonna kill him."

And my mother knew that

I was not in the house,

and she was like, "Okay,

you're not going tofind him."

And when they start shooting

and finally launch a missile

in our living room

and burn half of the house,

my mother saw how serious

their idea was

about capturing me,

tothe level when I came

next day, she told me,

"Gounderground,

don't goanywhere,

don't come back ever."

This was, you know, only a game

in order toshow everybody

that he's a wanted terrorist

and we try tocatch him.

Finally,

everybody in the city believed

that I was wanted

by Israel, and this way,

I got a chance,

since I became a wanted person,

I got a chance tohang out

with other wanted Hamas members

that we have been

looking for them for years.

A suicide bomber

blew himself up in the hotel,

killing more than 15 people.

I understood at that point that

the game is going tochange.

We decided that

we are going totake

all the necessary measures

toact and destroy

the infrastructure

of every terror element

that exists.

The Israeli Army started toenter

cities in the West Bank.

The Green Prince

was a key player

in many operations,

and one of the operations

was to reveal where

the Hamas leaders are hiding.

Our goal was

to try and get

as much terrorists as we can,

as much extremists as we can.

So we had like maybe 24 hours

before everybody would run away.

The Israeli politicians

did not know

about my involvement

with the Israeli I ntelligence.

And all they knew

that Hassan Yousef

is a terrorist.

And there was pressure

toassassinate

all top Hamas leaders

whowere involved in the movement

that 'caused the death of

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