Israeli leak suspect held in secret house arrest

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Gagging order in case of woman accused of leaking military information to press

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"For the past three months, a 23-year-old Israeli journalist has been under a secret house arrest over charges that she leaked classified information suggesting that the Israel military violated a legal ruling on killings of militants in the West Bank.

An unusual gagging order preventing reporting of the case by the media in Israel will be challenged next month by Channel Ten TV and the newspaper Haaretz.

The charges against Anat Kam, which could carry a heavy prison sentence if she is convicted, are believed to accuse her of photocopying classified documents during her period of military service.

Although the charges are not thought to specify a particular media outlet or article, there has been speculation that they relate to an investigation by the journalist Uri Blau in Haaretz magazine in November 2008. That report suggested that one of two Islamic Jihad militants killed in Jenin in June 2007 had been targeted for assassination in apparent violation of a ruling issued six months earlier by Israel's supreme court.

While not outlawing assassinations in the West Bank altogether, the ruling heavily restricted the circumstances in which they were permissible, effectively saying that they should not take place if arrest was possible.

Mr Blau's article said that the assassination of one of the militants killed in Jenin, Ziad Malaisha, had been approved in advance by officers, provided his car did not contain "more than one identified passenger". At the time of the shootings the military said it had killed Malaisha and another militant after they opened fire at a joint army and border police patrol.

Ms Kam was arrested more than a year after Mr Blau's report was published. At the time of her arrest, she was working for the news service Walla, which until recently was owned by Haaretz."

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[ConsAreLiars]

1. Sadly, pretty much the same ss Bush, Obama, Stalin, Hitler. Pinochet and all too many

more. Kill all you want to under any circumstances so long as it serves the aim of more power to the powers that be.

[oberliner]

2. Bush, Obama, Stalin, Hitler?

What universe do you live in that you would put these four in the same category?

[ConsAreLiars]

3. That universe is this one.

One in which heads of state in countries such as those when they were top dog, could and did order the murders of anyone anywhere they regard as a threat and put together death squads to carry out those orders, such as these have done. Don't forget Pinochet.

Just to help you develop your reasoning skills a bit above those you exhibited in your reply, things that go together in one category are not identical in all other respects. For example. grapes, baseballs, planets, oranges and eyeballs might be described as round and having that in common, The fit in the category of round things. That does not suggest to any normal person that that are identical. Or that through some twisted series of steps I cannot imagine that even an abnormal person might construct, that somehow because they are not identical in most or all respects they do not belong in the same category.

Hope this helps.