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Old February 14th, 2013 #1
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JERUSALEM -- Israel on Wednesday (2/14/13) admitted for the first time that it held an Israeli with dual citizenship under a false name for security reasons, and that he died in prison more than two years ago – details that shed new light on a case that has strained relations with its close ally Australia and raised questions about its secretive Mossad agency.

The admission confirmed key elements of an Australian TV report about the case, but also left unanswered major questions about the case, including the man's identity, why he was incarcerated, if he was a citizen of Australia and whether he worked for the Mossad.

A report by Australia's national broadcaster, ABC, identified the man as Ben Zygier. The report said he was a Jewish-Australian immigrant to Israel who was working for the Mossad when he was placed in a maximum-security prison for an unspecified crime in 2010. The report said he died in December of that year, apparently by suicide.

Israel, which refused to acknowledge the Australian report for nearly 24 hours, began lifting the veil of secrecy on the case on Wednesday.

Early in the day, it allowed Israeli media to report on the Australian news report. Then, late at night, a court order lifted parts of a series of gag orders dating back to March 2010, and confirmed elements of the report.

Wednesday's court order, emailed to reporters by Israel's Justice Ministry, confirmed that an Israeli man who held dual citizenship in an undisclosed country died in custody in 2010.

Identifying the man only as the Hebrew equivalent of John Doe, the court order said the prisoner's family was notified immediately after he was detained. It said he was imprisoned under a court order, that the prisoner's full rights were retained and named three Israeli lawyers who represented him.

The court order said that after the prisoner was found dead in his cell, a judge ordered an investigation into his death. About six weeks ago, the court statement said, the investigation concluded that he committed suicide. However, a judge has now asked the state to check for possible negligence.

In another curious wrinkle in the case, Israeli TV reported that the prisoner, identified by Australian media as Ben Zygier, had worked as a clerk in the international business department of one of Israel's most prestigious law firms, Herzog Fox & Neeman. The firm is partially owned by Israel's Justice Minister, Yaakov Neeman.

When asked in parliament about the Australian TV report on Tuesday, Neeman said he knew nothing of the case but said any allegations, if true, should be investigated.

Australian legislators demanded answers Wednesday about the suspicious death, and the government ordered a review of the case.

Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr said a review would be conducted of his department's handling of the prisoner.

According to Australian media, Zygier used the name Ben Allen in his Australian passport. He was also known as Ben Alon.

A spokesman for Carr said the review was not meant "to suggest anything untoward has happened, but given that there's an interest in the case, let's have the review."

Carr also revealed that some Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade officials knew in 2010 that Allen was detained, contradicting an earlier statement that the department only became aware after he died.

Among the lawmakers demanding clarifications was shadow Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop, who told ABC that she wanted to know why details of the case were being censored in Israel. She said she would raise the issue with the Israeli Embassy.

Information about the case emerged briefly in June 2010, when the Israeli news site Ynet reported on the existence of a prisoner – identified only as Prisoner X – whose crimes were unknown. The report was mysteriously removed from the site shortly after it was posted, apparently under pressure from Israel's military censor. The censor has authority to block or delete reports deemed threatening to national security.

Ynet then reported on Dec. 27, 2010, that a prisoner had committed suicide while in solitary confinement two weeks earlier. That report was also quickly removed.

The Israeli censor's office declined comment.

The ABC reported that Zygier moved from Australia to Israel in 2000 and had worked for the Mossad. It reported that his incarceration was top secret, but did not say why he had been arrested.

It said he hanged himself in a cell that had been specially designed for Yigal Amir, the Jewish ultranationalist who in 1995 assassinated then-Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.

Australia's foreign affairs department would not comment on what it described as the ABC's "speculation" on Allen's links to the Mossad.

Israeli TV speculated that Zygier was imprisoned after committing some kind of act of treason.

Israeli Channel 10 TV reported that in 2009, Australian intelligence officers interrogated Zygier when he was in Australia, questioning him about trips to Iran, Lebanon and Syria.

The TV report alleged that the matter was leaked to an Australian reporter, who phoned Zygier and questioned him about his alleged Mossad links. He reportedly denied the allegations. The TV report said some time later, he was put in jail in Israel, and six months later he was found dead in his cell.

In Israel, media were prevented from reporting many details of the Zygier case because of a court-imposed gag order.

According to the ABC report, the Australian migrated to Israel in 2000, was 34, was married to an Israeli woman and was the father of two young children.

A death notice published online from December 2010 announced the funeral for Ben Zygier. He is listed as the son of Geoffrey Zygier, the executive director of the B'nai B'rith Anti-Defamation Commission, an Australian Jewish organization based in the southern city of Melbourne that combats anti-Semitism. He declined to comment when contacted Wednesday.

This is not the first alleged case of Israeli espionage involving an Australian passport. In May 2010, Australia ordered the expulsion of an Israeli diplomat after investigators concluded Israel was responsible for forging four Australian passports used by those responsible for the 2010 killing of a Hamas operative in Dubai.

At the time, Australia's then-foreign minister Stephen Smith said Israel had previously forged other Australian travel documents. He did not elaborate, but said the 2010 transgression breached "confidential undertakings" between the two countries that have stood for several years.

The affair caused strains in an otherwise very close relationship between the two countries.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/0...n_2681272.html
 
Old February 20th, 2013 #2
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Zionist Federation of Australia President Phillip Chester today described as “totally uninformed and mischievous” claims by some media commentators that the purpose of Israel-experience programs supported by community organisations is to recruit Australian Jews to serve in Israel’s intelligence organisations. “Contrary to the assertions of these commentators, these programs are aimed at educating Jewish youth about their heritage and about contemporary Israel, and have nothing to do with recruiting people for intelligence organisations.

“Some Australian Jews decide to emigrate to Israel (known in Hebrew as “Aliyah”) because they consider Israel central to their Jewish identity. Australia and Israel share many common values. Australians in Israel generally continue to maintain strong links to Australia and take great pride in Australia’s impact on their upbringing and the contribution that they made to Australian society.


“Since its inception, Israel has faced hostile neighbours and military service is a necessary reality. Migrants of military age are expected to join their Israeli born contemporaries in fulfilling this national imperative. This does not contravene Australian law.

“As a multicultural society Australia has long recognised and accepted that its citizens have the right to hold dual nationality. Many Australians enjoy the rights and privileges of citizenship in other countries by reason of birth or the nationality of their parents or grandparents.

“Much rumour, innuendo and speculation surround the death in custody of Ben Zygier. The ZFA respects the Zygier family’s privacy as should the media. It can only be hoped that they will be left to contend with their loss without continued intrusion fuelled by intense media interest and speculation.”

http://www.zfa.com.au/2013/02/20/zfa...re-prisoner-x/
 
Old February 20th, 2013 #3
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I'm sure some of you remember the scandal a few years ago where Mossad agents were caught murdering a foreign diplomat (in Egypt, I'm pretty sure it was) using Australian passports, right?

Well, it turns out at least some of those passports weren't stolen or fake.

Ben Zygier's was one of them. Or should I say, 'Ben Allen' was one of them.

So Zygier was called in for a little talk by Australian intelligence, who said, "Look, we know you're using your Australian passports to go to countries where Israeli citizens can't go, and do assassinations. Look, go back to Mossad and tell them that we know what they are doing, and we want them to fuckin' cut it out, alright?"

And was sent back to Israel to meet with his Mossad higher-ups and pass on the message.

Only problem was, the second Zygier mentioned he had been talking to Australian government representatives, he was thrown into a military prison - by Mossad - as if he, an Israeli citizen and a Mossad employee, should never talk to any foreign government representative for any reason at all. As if his Australian citizenship wasn't worth the paper it was printed on.

And he died there. Of course the reports say he committed suicide, but I think it's pretty obvious that he's been suicided.

So there you have it. Dual Israeli-Australian citizens, who are in military service to Israel, consider their duty to Israel's armed forces to supercede any duties and responsibilities they may have as Australian citizens. Including things like, oh gee, how about not using your Australian passport to carry out murders for the Israeli military? Things like that?

And the Israeli military obviously feels the same way, if Zygier's 'suicide' is any indication.

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Old February 20th, 2013 #4
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Let's keep this going. From an opinion piece in The Age:

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The case of Prisoner X, Australian Jew Ben Zygier, gets ever stranger.

It appears that his crime may have been confirming to Australian spooks that Israel was indeed misusing Australian passports to run security operations.

<This is to say, the true story is not that fake passports are being used, the true story is that REAL passports of a country supposedly friendly to your own were being mis-used to carry out assassinations. - MND>

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If the reports are true, Ben Zygier was not a mortal threat to Israel because he was passing secrets to enemies such as Iran. Rather, he would embarrass Israel because he would corroborate an illegal, hostile, and shameful act by Israel against a supposed friend, Australia.
To clarify: He has an Israeli and an Australian passport.

He used his Australian passport, because certain states give massive scrutiny (or simply don't allow entry) to people using Israeli passports.

So he used his Australian passport, under the name of 'Ben Allen' (very dinky-di Aussie name, and probably chosen for that reason), in order to participate in Mossad murders.

He wasn't using a fake passport. He was using a real Australian passport - his own.

Using fake passports purporting to represent a country which you're allied to, for expediting murder, is still a very scummy, typical jew tactic, but it's not as bad as using real passports which actually represent a country you're allied to, for expediting murder.

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Old February 20th, 2013 #5
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Israel’s " Prisoner X "Is Linked To DUBAI ASSASSINATION* In A New Report (video)

JERUSALEM — The Australian-Israeli man recently identified as Prisoner X — found dead in 2010 in a maximum-security prison cell — may have been involved in the assassination of a Hamas leader that year, an episode that was among the most embarrassing in the history of Israel’s intelligence agency, Mossad.

The Kuwaiti newspaper Al Jarida reported Thursday that Ben Zygier, who immigrated to Israel from Australia and apparently spent a decade working for the Mossad, was among the 26 suspects in the assassination plot, in which Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, a Hamas official, was drugged and suffocated in his hotel room in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

Al Jarida, a liberal opposition newspaper, said that Mr. Zygier had provided the authorities in Dubai with “names and pictures and accurate details” in exchange for protection, but Israel kidnapped him from a hiding place and imprisoned him on charges of treason about a month after the Jan. 19, 2010, operation.
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http://paganfront.org/showthread.php...=1126#post1126



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Israeli government 'to compensate family of Prisoner X'Reports of deal emerge as calls mount for the Mossad and Israeli prison service to be investigated over death in custody

The Israeli government has reportedly offered to pay hundreds of thousands of pounds in compensation to the family of "Prisoner X" – an agent of the Mossad with Australian and Israeli citizenship who took his own life while secretly imprisoned for undisclosed "grave charges
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013...soner-x-family
 
Old February 20th, 2013 #6
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The Mystery of Israel’s ‘Prisoner X’
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A byzantine international spy scandal has been unravelling over the past two weeks with no end in sight. It involves double-agents, Mossad assassinations, nuclear sabotage, and the too-good-to-be-true code name "Prisoner X."

The story, or at least what we know of the story for sure, starts in December 2010, when 34-year-old Australian-Israeli Ben Zygier was found dead in the shower after allegedly hanging himself with a bedsheet in the most secure section of Israel's most secure prison. Zygier had disappeared the prior February and been imprisoned in Ayalon Prison's infamous Unit 15, a solitary confinement unit that was originally built to house Yigal Amir, Yitzhak Rabin's assassin.

Zygier had been held under the utmost secrecy—even his jailers didn't didn't know his identity, referring to him only as "Prisoner X." The first hints of Zygier's case emerged in the summer of 2010, when Israeli newspaper Yediot Ahronot posted a tantalizing wisp of a story about Prisoner X.

"He is in absolute isolation from the external world," a prison source told the paper. "I'm not aware of any other prisoner held in such grave conditions of isolation." The post was quickly removed. According to the Israeli affairs blogger Richard Silverstein, the Israeli press had been put under a strict gag order regarding Prisoner X, forbidden even to report the existence of the blackout. The Israeli press is subject to official censorship, where any story on matters of national security must be approved by the military censor's office.

But a few foreign news outlets picked up the story. Silverstein, a harsh critic of Israeli censorship policies, persisted in hunting down the identity of Prisoner X, at one point mis-identifying him as an Iranian general. Then in December of 2010, shocking news emerged that Prisoner X had committed suicide, again published and removed by an israeli newspaper within minutes. Still, the identity of the man remained a mystery.

Finally, last week, the Australian Broadcasting Company named Prisoner X: He was Ben Zygier, a 34-year-old married father of two, and he was a Mossad agent suspected of unspecified serious crimes against Israel.

Yet even after the ABC broke the news, the Israeli government tried to maintain a strict blackout. Israeli news stories about the ABC report were pulled down as soon as they were posted. An emergency meeting of Israel's "editors committee"—an informal organization that works with the government to self-censor Israel's media—was called, and editors were reminded not to report on the story which could "severely embarrasses" the country.

Further reporting, mostly by Australian sources, has filled in some of the details of Zygier's life. The son of a prominent Jewish community leader in Melbourne, Zygier moved to Israel from Australia about 10 years ago. There he had been recruited by Mossad, which frequently seeks out Jews with foreign passports who can travel more freely. Zygier reportedly underwent multiple name changes to apply for new passports, under which he traveled repeatedly to Iran. He had possibly tried to recruit Middle Eastern students while studying at Australia's Monash University, and had already fallen under surveillance of the country's Security Intelligence Organization (ASIO), which suspected he was an Israeli spy along with two other Australian Jews referred to as "Paul Y." and "David Z." by Der Spiegel.

So Zygier was a spy. But the mystery of what went wrong still remains. What sort of crime could he have been accused of to warrant such extreme secrecy and seclusion? Conspiracy theorists have had fertile soil to till, and the rumor mill has been fed by Israel's dogged attempts to suppress the story: Some speculate that Zygier had acted as a double agent for Australian intelligence services. He was reportedly linked to Mossad's dramatic 2010 Dubai assassination of a Hamas gun runner. In that case, four of the 29 suspected agents used fake Australian passports to travel to the site of the hit, much to the Australian government's chagrin. Perhaps Zygier was revealing to Australian authorities details about the operation even as he helped accomplish it.

The ASIO had "interrogated him (Zygier), they suspected him, they knew many things," a security official told The Australian.

Others speculate he may have been about to reveal that the government of Abu Dhabi was complicit in the assassination. Still others say it had to do with spilling secrets about Israel's sabotage of Iran's nuclear program. And of course there's the nagging question of whether Zygier really managed to kill himself in the most secure prison in Israel, or maybe had some help, indirectly or otherwise.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netenyahu has defended Israel's handling of the case and denied that Zygier may have been turned by the Australians. Curiously, Zygier's family isn't talking. When they were notified of Zygier's imprisonment by Israel in 2010 they did not request help from the Australian government. And when Zygier killed himself that December, they had his body flown back to Australia where they quietly buried it in a Jewish cemetery in the Melbourne suburbs. The real story behind Prisoner X may have been buried with him.


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http://gawker.com/5985630/the-myster...els-prisoner-x
 
Old February 21st, 2013 #7
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30 minute video at link.

Zygier arrested after leaking Mossad work to ASIO: sources


How long before ...

An American based committee of some sorts "looks into the matter" and finds "no creditable evidence of wrong doing" ...

The the "media" and Wiki will site the report as evidence that the initial source has been "discredited" ...

After that, anybody that continues to discuss the issues will be labeled as a "conspiracy kook" or as somebody he is obsessed with the issue because of their anti-semetic neo-"NAZI" mental defect ...

Fast forward about a generation or two ...

"New" evidence has been "uncovered" the proves that proves the thing was the result of some anti-semetic conspiracy.

"experts" this "think tanks" that "research" here "investigation" there ... blah blah blah ... abracadabra ... hocus pocus ... Oy vey ... everybody hates the jew for no reason at all.
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The Prisoner X case and the way israel deals with dangers to it's national security needs to be compared with the way the jew tells America to deal with a jew spy in America.

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Old February 22nd, 2013 #9
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This by all accounts should be one of the diplomatic scandals of the century, with far-reaching consequences, but what's the bet it's going to be swept under the rug and memory holed by both Israel and Australia?

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It's not curious at all. They would not have known exactly what he was up to (opsec and all that), but they would have known he was involved in sensitive military duties on behalf of Israel, that as an Australian citizen he should not have been involved in.

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Old March 6th, 2013 #10
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Sydney - Australia's foreign minister on Wednesday confirmed for the first time that a dual Australian-Israeli citizen who died in a maximum-security Israeli prison had been working for Israel's government, and he raised the possibility of a diplomatic spat if the man's Australian passport was used for espionage.

Ben Zygier died in an apparent suicide in his prison cell in December 2010, and reports have said he had worked for the Mossad spy agency. Israel's government has refused to release details about the case even after a gag order was partially lifted that barred local media from reporting on it at all. Australia's government has said only that Zygier, an Australian who immigrated to Israel, had been charged with unspecified security offenses.

Foreign Minister Bob Carr said that Zygier was working for Israel's government, though he would not confirm or deny reports he had worked for Mossad. But Carr warned that the case raises serious questions about the use of Australian passports by dual nationals working for foreign governments, saying that if it's confirmed Israel used Zygier's passport for intelligence-gathering purposes, Australia would register "the strongest protest".

"Certainly if Australian passports were misused here, that's something we are forced to take very seriously," Carr told reporters. "No country can allow the integrity of its passport system to be compromised. We can't say whether it happened with Mr Zygier's several passports. I hope the inquiry that takes place ... in Israel can clarify this position."

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The mysterious case has strained relations between Australia and its close ally Israel.

http://www.news24.com/World/News/Aus...srael-20130306
 
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