| Submit your comments on this article |
| Israel-Palestine-Jordan |
| All the Details on the Alleged Spy Story Coming Out of Israel |
| 2013-02-14 |
| All strategy is based on deception. Looks like he didn't like what he found when he joined the Mossad sausage factory. Espionage Accusations, Secret Meetings With Netanyahu, and a Media Gag Order The mysterious jail suicide of an Australian immigrant to Israel has been capturing headlines in Israel and Australia, a story cloaked in intrigue and allegations of international espionage. According to former intelligence officials, the widespread publication of details in the case – if true – may also damage Israel’s clandestine efforts to scuttle terrorist weapons acquisitions and Iran’s nuclear program. According to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, the country’s public broadcaster, in 2010 an unnamed prisoner it called “Prisoner X” committed suicide while in solitary confinement in the high-security Ayalon Prison in Israel. Though the identity of this prisoner was allegedly kept secret even from some of the prison guards, the Australian TV report named him as Melbourne-native Ben Zygier, who the show claimed was a Mossad agent who had changed his name at least twice. Adding to the intrigue, the program reported he was being held in the highest-level security cell with constant camera surveillance originally designed for Yigal Amir, the assassin of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. Due to an Israeli court-issued gag order, Israeli media were never allowed to report on the case. Tipped off that the Australians were going with the story, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu earlier this week called in the chief editors of Israel’s major news organizations to convey to them the sensitivity of the case in the hopes some details would remain confidential, according to Haaretz. The Australian report never said why Zygier was arrested and incarcerated, but now new details may be emerging. |
| Posted by:tipper |