TERROR police have arrested a 37-year-old Palestinian man accused of being a member of Hamas and planning a vile attack on a cruise ship.
Greek intelligence agents and terror arrested the man on the holiday island of Crete on Saturday afternoon.
Terror police have arrested a 37-year-old Palestinian accused of being a member of Hamas Credit: Alamy
Cops said he planned to attack Israeli targets in a European country, potentially by bombing a cruise ship Credit: Reuters
The man, who was born in Gaza but now lives legally in , is suspected of joining terrorist Hamas and travelling abroad to be trained by the terror group.
Cops said he planned to attack Israeli targets in a European country, potentially by bombing a cruise ship.
Police said he had plotted and ordered materials for the attack, and admitted having contact with other suspected terrorists.
Terrifyingly, the man works in a hotel in Agios Nikolaos, Crete, with regular access to foreign tourists.
He was arrested on intelligence from Cyprus, where several others were recently arrested, accused of links to bomb attacks in Jerusalem.
Greek media reported that the man may have been planning to target an Israeli cruise ship set to arrive on Crete on Tuesday.
Cops raided the man’s home in Athens and seized mobile phones, a laptop, data storage devices, bank cards, and laboratory equipment.
State TV ERT said police also found chemicals that could be used to make a bomb.
Police said investigations are ongoing.
It comes after Cypriot police detained two Palestinians on May 22 after alarming intelligence findings.
Authorities said they found bomb-making materials in two residences used by one of the men.
Another two Palestinian men were detained in Cyprus on May 29 as part of the same .
It comes after amid fears he was spearheading a massive attack on an RAF base.
The unidentified man has links to Iran’s terror-stoking Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, according to police sources in Cyprus.
The man, said to be of Azerbaijani descent, was arrested based on intelligence that he had planned an imminent attack against the British base in Akrotiri, reports Cypriot newspaper Phileleftheros.
Two further arrests linked to the case were made in the UK in an operation involving intelligence services, Europol and Interpol, reports Philenews .
The Akrotiri base is used for fast jet operations in the Middle East and hosts 84 Squadron – the RAF’s last remaining search and rescue unit.
Cops reportedly swooped on the Brit in the Zakaki suburb of the coastal city Limassol.
Officials believe he had been monitoring the RAF base since mid-April, along with ‘s own Andreas Papandreou Air Base.
Reportedly disguised as a tourist, the man is said to have been spotted taking photos of the base almost every day with a long range camera.
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