Posted on 05/25/2004 6:13:45 PM PDT by TruthWarrior
Israeli Agents Believed Involved in Abu Ghraib
Diplomatic sources in Washington tell NewsMax's U.N. correspondent Stew Stogel that Israeli nationals are believed to be involved in the Iraq prison controversy.
"Israelis have been to Abu Ghraib and other prisons [in Iraq]," says one source familiar with the U.S. operations.
It was explained that the Israelis involved have been assigned as "civilian contractors" to work with Coalition forces in interrogating Iraqi POWs.
The "contractors" are said to be veterans of Israel's domestic intelligence unit, Shin Bet, as well as the more famous international intelligence agency, the Mossad.
"Who has better experience in dealing with the Arabs than Israel?" one source asked.
It was explained that several of the "interrogation" techniques used by U.S. forces in Iraq have in fact been used by Israel "for years."
The technique of stripping Arab prisoners naked, to embarrass and humiliate them, has been used by Israelis, according to Arab diplomats at the U.N.
It should be noted, however, that torture and mutilation are common techniques used by Arab countries on their prisoners.
Word in NYC diplomatic circles is that some of the "civilians" seen in recent Iraq prison photos are in fact Israeli nationals "advising" U.S. forces.
Neither U.S. nor Iraqi diplomatic officials in NYC or Washington were available for comment.
The charges come after an incident in April in which an Israeli Arab working in Iraq was kidnapped and charged with spying.
Nabil George Yaakob Razouk, an Israeli Arab employed by Research Triangle International, a North Carolina-based firm under contract to the State Department, was abducted by Iraqi insurgents and said to be a spy.
Razouk, working on "local governance" advising, was seized in Najaf and held for more than two weeks.
Only the personal intervention of Yassir Arafat, who acted after pleas from the Razouk family, is believed to have saved him from execution.
The latest disclosures come as an Iraqi diplomatic team has temporarily canceled a visit to U.N. headquarters to consult with the Security Council about the modalities for the transfer of power expected on July 1.
Among the Council ambassadors with whom the Iraqis are expected to meet is U.S. Ambassador John Negroponte.
Negroponte will leave his U.N. post next month to become the new U.S. ambassador to Iraq, once the Coalition authority is dissolved.
I smell troll. Of course the fact that he signed up tomorrow might have tipped me off.
Has anyone listened to the tape of Nick Berg's beheading?......supposedly at the end there are terrorists or somebody speaking in English.
It could mean another American John Walker Lindh was at the execution if true....
Unfortunately, history has shown that to be true.
Russia had pogroms when times got tough.
Germany had a Holocaust.
Anti-semitism seems to be a tried and true method of scapegoating escapism.
Carl should take a more careful look at his sources.
They get brighter every day.
Don't ever forget that Carl Limbacher hates George W. Bush.
I cannot stomach watching something gory like that, so I cannot comment.
However, the liberal bloggers are having a field day trying to discredit the Berg beheading, and they have a vast ocean of crazy conspiracy theories they are using.
Here! Proof positive of his being a troll!
;)
I don't have anything against Newsmax, I'm just reading the article like I would read any other article. While I was copying and pasting the phrases in my previous post, and then read them over again by themselves, the whole thing comes off as gossip and hearsay. Who are these sources? If the report had stated something like, "a source at the Pentagon", or "a source at the CIA" it would be different, but it doesn't. "Word in NYC diplomatic circles" is not a credible source, if you're looking for facts. The most you can deduce from this article is that some people are saying certain things, but nothing has been verified. For a story like this, a source at the Pentagon or CIA would have been much more credible, or at the very least an attempt to get an offical comment from them, but there is no evidence they did, or they would have said something like "Pentagon officials refused to comment" or "Pentagon officials were unavailable for comment."
ROFLMAO. Are you for real?
You've made that clear.
This is news to me, but I must admit that the machinations of the NewsMax operation often flies below my radar screen.
I wish the article would have been more clear on sources.
However, it is so common for news articles and reports to say, "So and so said this or that on condition of anonymity".
Limbacher does not like Bush; do not be fooled.
I have met Cuban-Americans and Mexican-Americans with the first name of Israel.
It seems to be a Christian way of showing veneration of the foundation of our faith in Christ.
Most journalists will at least use the fig leaf of "senior administration official". For all we know, Carl's sources could be the voices in his head.
That's because you got here in November of 2000; some of the nastiest stories about Bush came right off that web site in the run up to the election.
NewsMax does really good on online traffic ratings.
I feel that give reliable news, that I could never find in a print newspaper or on TV.
It's VERY common at NewsMax. Most of their stories are cuts and pastes from other stories, sometimes almost word for word.
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