Cohen tricks ex-Mossad agent into interview

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Sacha Baron Cohen has tricked a former Mossad agent and a Palestinian academic into giving an interview for new film Bruno.

Israeli Yossi Alpher and Palestinian Ghassam Khalib agreed to speak with Cohen, in the guise of his camp Austrian TV personality, unaware that they were being filmed for a spoof documentary.

In the interview, Bruno asked: "What's the connection between a political movement and food? Why hummus?"

Alpher quickly explained: "Hamas is a Palestinian Islamist political movement. Hummus is a food."

Bruno continued to debate more problems with hummus, saying: "Yesterday I threw away my pitta bread because it was dripping hummus. And it's too high in carbohydrates."

As the interview went on, Bruno told his guests that "your conflict is not so bad", saying the feud between Jennifer Aniston and Angelina Jolie over Brad Pitt was much worse.

Alpher later said: "We knew something ludicrous was happening but couldn't quite figure it out."

Bruno is scheduled for release on May 19, 2009.