| Submit your comments on this article |
| Israel-Palestine-Jordan |
| Israeli Arab prison fugitive charged with giving information to Hezbollah |
| 2006-01-20 |
| The state prosecutor's office charged an Israeli Arab prison fugitive on Thursday with relaying information about military bases and sensitive infrastructure installations to Lebanese guerrillas who seek Israel's destruction. The man, 21-year-old Uru Ali, escaped to Lebanon during a 48-hour furlough from an Israeli prison, carrying maps of northern Israel and Lebanon taken from the prison library, according to the indictment, which did not state why he was imprisoned. There, he fell into the hands of Hezbollah guerrillas, who held him captive for eight months, security officials said. While in captivity, he relayed information about the location of military bases, troops, telephone and electricity installations, and municipal and political party buildings in the northern Israeli city of Nahariya, near the Lebanese border, security officials said. He also gave them information about two relatives who serve on the Israeli police force, and about doctors and a lawyer from his hometown, the village of Mizraa in Galilee, they said. Ali's captors released him in late December on the Lebanese side of Ghajar, a town of Israeli Arabs through which the Israel-Lebanon border runs, security officials said. Israeli security forces detained him as he came over the border. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 #1: This story is very strainge. What am I missing? That he has access to all this material while in prison? That he aparently has unmonitored telephone calls from prison? Unless they wanted him to pass this info along, the incompetence is just staggering. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2006-01-20 20:43 |
| #3 Israel has a complex network of spies in the ME. Hezbollah knows this. Perhaps they thought they caught a new agent being sent out to mingle and they attempted to break him. Now, he'll probably leave by another door. We'll never know what he is. |
| Posted by: wxjames 2006-01-20 16:23 |
| #2 Strange, too. ;-) |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2006-01-20 08:59 |
| #1 This story is very strainge. What am I missing? |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2006-01-20 08:58 |