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| Suspected Spies Heading To Israel |
| 2004-09-30 |
| The Prime Minister has confirmed the two Israelis convicted and sentenced earlier this year for passport fraud, have been deported. Eli Cara and Uri Kelman were put on a plane at Auckland Airport early this afternoon. Cara and Kelman were released from Mt Eden Prison in Auckland early today after serving the required one-third of their six-month sentence for trying to fraudulently obtain a New Zealand passport. Israel's Embassy serving New Zealand is saying very little about the men. The acting Israeli Ambassador in Canberra, Orna Sagiv has declined to discuss the pair's movements. She says any statement Israel makes to the New Zealand Government will be through diplomatic channels and not the news media. The Government has demanded an apology from Israel as it suspects the men were intelligence agents, but has not received one. Official visits to New Zealand by high-level Israeli officials have been suspended. Former director of Victoria University's Centre for Strategic Studies, Terence O'Brien, says an apology may have been given had the men been charged with espionage, but not for something such as passport fraud. |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #1 Boy, I hope the Nzealers didn't double 'em. 2 months locked up in sheepland with all that methane... ya never know till it's too late. |
| Posted by: .com 2004-09-30 5:33:04 AM |