Syria's new intelligence chief, Khattab, tied to Turkey's spy agency, MIT - Nordic Monitor

Syria's new intelligence chief, Khattab, tied to Turkey's spy agency, MIT - Nordic Monitor

Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm Anas Hasan Khattab, the newly appointed 38-year-old director of Syria’s General Intelligence Service (Al-Mukhabarat al-Amma, GIS), has maintained a close relationship with Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (Milli İstihbarat Teşkilatı, MIT), dating back to his time overseeing al-Qaeda operations in Syria. Despite being designated a terrorist by the United States in 2012 for his ties to the al-Nusra Front and s…