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| Hiker's family hid Israeli link |
| 2011-09-28 |
| FOR the 26 months that US man Josh Fattal was held captive in Iran, his mother and brother were ever-present voices calling for his release. But his father, Jacob Fattal, never said a word. It's now clear why: The family feared that their Jewish faith - and Jacob Fattal's ties to Israel - could make Josh's unbearable situation worse because of Iran's hard line against Israel. Jacob Fattal is an Iraqi-born Jew who lived in Israel before moving to the United States and raising a family, according to reports in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz and the Philadelphia-based Jewish Exponent. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #5 The weird thing is that some intelligence agencies actually go out of their way to recruit homosexuals as field people, as long as they and their partner remain monogamous. This is because they are often a better fit for the recruitment matrix. That is, it is often a cultural taboo to suggest that two men are homosexuals, even if they travel together. While foreign men may sexually harass a woman agent, they won't harass male agents, as long as they avoid other homosexuals. And even if they get a government angry with them, they might be able to locate and use that country's homosexual underground to escape. Weird business. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2011-09-28 17:29 |
| #4 Yeah, but Sarkozy is far less likely to be a MOSSAD agent He doesn't seem to radiate competence very much... and there's all the affairs and whatnot, which is kinda a no-no for intelligence people, no matter how nice her birthday suit is. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2011-09-28 12:04 |
| #3 Yeah, but Sarkozy is far less likely to be a MOSSAD agent. It's a standard rule of thumb that intelligence agencies post their spies in 3rd countries, hopefully neutral ones. The largest Soviet "interest section", for example, was in Canada. This actually benefited Canadian citizens around the world, because the Soviets told all their client countries to respect Canada's neutrality, and not harass their citizens. The US is a natural for Israel, not because of our neutrality, but because we have such "open access" around the world, something perhaps even more valuable than neutrality. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2011-09-28 11:06 |
| #2 Isn't Sarkozy Hungarian though? |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2011-09-28 01:20 |
| #1 Along cometh TWITTER > [IIRC] HITLER, BUSH, OBAMA, HILLARY CLINTONSARKOZY, CAMERON, BLAIR [+ others] ARE ALL FROM THE SAME FAMILY TREE. "Its in the Blood/All in the Family", aa the saying(s) go. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2011-09-28 00:37 |