Israel...still doing no wrong

[Donkey®]

Israel Admits it Has Missing Palestinian Engineer - FoxNews.com


Israel Admits it Has Missing Palestinian Engineer
By Yonat Friling
Published March 21, 2011
| FoxNews.com


Israel admitted for the first time that it is holding a Palestinian engineer who mysterious disappeared in the Ukraine in February.

Dirar Abu Sisi, 42, the head of the Palestinian Power plant in Gaza, was traveling on an overnight train from Kharkiv to Kiev Feb 18 when he vanished.

It was confirmed on Sunday that Abu Sisi is being held in an Israel jail, after an Israeli court decided to partially lift a gag order imposed on the case.

Abu Sisi's wife, Veronica, says the Mossad, Israeli's spy agency, kidnapped him. Details of his detention, including reports of his alleged abduction and the investigation against Abu Sisi, will remain a secret for at least 30 days.

Fox News has learned that Abu Sisi was in the Ukraine applying for citizenship when he disappeared. After submitting all the paperwork, he was told by Ukrainian authorities to report to a government agency in Kharkiv, which was processing his case.


After he turned up, government workers briefly seized his passport, and then gave it back to him, saying it was a routine check. Later that day, he boarded the night train to Kiev, where he was supposed to meet his brother.
He never showed up.

According to the human rights group HaMoked Center for the Defense of the Individual, Abu Sisi, was imprisoned on Feb. 19, and he is now being held in Shikma Prison in the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon.

Abu Sisi is one of the managers at the only power plant in the Gaza Strip. Israeli press has reported that it is not known if Abu Sisi has ties with Hamas or any other terrorist organizations.

His brother-in-law and cousin, Ghazi Abu Sisi, who spoke with Fox News from Gaza, said he works with Hamas but denied he has any involvement in terror-related activities.

"Who is ruling Gaza, the Spanish or people from Indonesia?" Ghazi asked. "Yes, he has a relation with Hamas government as the chief of Gaza power plant."

According to his lawyer, Smadar Ben Natan, Abu Sisi is still being held for questioning by the Shin Bet, the Israeli Domestic Secret Intelligence Service (Israel's equivalent to the FBI), and is yet to be charged.

Ibrahim Hazboun contributed to this report.[/quote]



It's great to live by your own rules isn't it?

[PottersvilleUSA]

Originally Posted by Donkey®

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It's great to live by your own rules isn't it?

Oh fer sure.

Hell they can execute a US citizen on the open seas and no one but the UN dares criticize.
If Iran did that--WW3.

"...The Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights released a comprehensive report detailing its findings regarding the May, 2010, Israeli attack on the six-ship flotilla attempting to deliver humanitarian aid to Israel-blockaded Gaza. The report has been largely ignored in the American media despite the fact (or, more accurately: because) it found that much of the Israeli force used "was unnecessary, disproportionate, excessive and inappropriate and resulted in the wholly avoidable killing and maiming of a large number of civilian passengers"; that "at least six of the killings can be characterized as extra-legal, arbitrary and summary executions"; and that Israel violated numerous international human rights conventions, including the Fourth Geneva Conventions (see p. 38, para. 172).

Even more striking in terms of U.S. media and government silence on this report is the fact that one of the victims of the worst Israeli violations was a 19-year-old American citizen. As Gareth Porter documents in an excellent article at The Huffington Post, the report "shows conclusively, for the first time, that US citizen Furkan Dogan and five Turkish citizens were murdered execution-style by Israeli commandos." In particular:

The report reveals that Dogan, the 19-year-old US citizen of Turkish descent, was filming with a small video camera on the top deck of the Mavi Marmara when he was shot twice in the head, once in the back and in the left leg and foot and that he was shot in the face at point blank range while lying on the ground.

The report says Dogan had apparently been "lying on the deck in a conscious or semi-conscious, state for some time" before being shot in his face.

The forensic evidence that establishes that fact is "tattooing around the wound in his face," indicating that the shot was "delivered at point blank range." The report describes the forensic evidence as showing that "the trajectory of the wound, from bottom to top, together with a vital abrasion to the left shoulder that could be consistent with the bullet exit point, is compatible with the shot being received while he was lying on the ground on his back."

Needless to say, the Israeli Government -- as it virtually always does when confronted with well-documented, official findings of its severe human rights violations -- attacked the source, accusing the report of being "biased and distorted."

Etcetera.
Whatever.