Monday, February 18, 2013
Kuwait- Involvement in Israel's Prisoner X
Recently a prisoner held in Israel's Ayalon prison was found dead by apparent suicide in December. A Kuwaiti newspaper, al-Jarida, has implicated this prisoner in the assassination of a Hamas leader in Dubai in January of 2010. Unfortunately I was not able to directly read the article in al-Jarida since it was only written in Arabic, however I was able to find an English summary in the Middle East Monitor. According to al-Jarida, Prisoner X, otherwise known as Ben Allon, was a member of a team which killed a leader of Hamas in Dubai in 2010. According to al-Jarida, who got their information from "Western informed sources", Allon attempted to tell the authorities in Dubai about what happened to this Hamas leader in exchange for protection, when Israel head of this they apparently kidnapped Allon and placed him in custody. All of this news is purely speculation at this point because there is still a partial gag order in place in Israel, preventing the full story of this prisoner from being broadcast.
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Could you send me the link to the article? The one written in Arabic. This whole incident is extremely confusing and diabolically interesting. To think that things like this actually happen in real life (and not some Hollywood movie) is amazing.
ReplyDeleteI agree, this situation sounds like some covert operation in an action movie. It would be interesting to find out the whole story although we probably never will. It seems that the Israeli government did not want certain information to get told in Dubai and therefore kidnapped Allon. Did Allon really die of suicide or is there more to the story??
ReplyDeleteI want to know what this information was. To be perfectly honest, kidnapping and killing someone is one of the best ways to keep information from getting out (If they're dead, you don't have to worry about them talking...). The problem you run into is when someone from outside this little conspiracy circle founds out. Who let the media know? You already have the guy in a prison, how hard could it possibly be to make him disappear quietly? Now that we sort of know about it, and also that there is a partial gag order, it looks incredibly bad on them [Israel].
ReplyDeleteI wonder how many of these types of cases take place. I feel like a lot of them do take place, but are never recorded. It seems that there are many secret operations that occur. It's crazy what a government would do just to prevent something from being circulated.
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