I haven’t had time to follow this. If he was Mossad, why was he arrested? Or hasn’t that info been made public at all?
A dark and complicated story, impossible to get anywhere near the truth. It seems - yes, he was a Mossad agent - yes, he was Prisoner X, held in secret in an Israeli jail, where he died in 2010.
Did they think him guilty of treason? Unanswered questions abound. If they wanted him dead, surely they could have just wiped him out, in one of those ‘accidents’ that happen to individuals who fall into the world of espionage. Poor Ben ... he was over there in Israel and he had one of those diving accidents ... his equipment let him down ...
And another issue is why was this leaked now? How did the Australian media, until then seemingly unaware of this case, suddenly get a whole lot of information?