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...weeks ago, Israeli soldiers entered a shabby camp dwelling, where some of the family now live, and took away Hamad's son Bashir, 26. Last week the Israeli government announced that Bashir, who was to have been married on Jan. 22, would be deported...
...Bashir Hamad was one of nine Palestinians chosen for expulsion in the wake of the month-long rebellion that has swept through the occupied Gaza Strip and West Bank. Though seven have already spent time in prison, six for involvement in terrorism, the Israeli army accused only three of directly fomenting the recent riots; the rest are asserted to be "hard-core agitators." Hamad, though not cited for involvement in the current unrest, is accused of "organizing disturbances and participating in them" in his role as a leader of the Shabiba, a young men's group with close ties...
Among the book's other disclosures: Bashir Gemayel, the Christian leader assassinated after being elected President of Lebanon in 1982, had been on the CIA payroll for years; the agency monitored Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's phone conversations during the Achille Lauro crisis; and Argentine officials supplied intelligence data to the CIA during the Falklands war, information that was passed along to Britain, Argentina's enemy in the conflict. Woodward relates that a suspect being interrogated for the 1983 bombing of the U.S. embassy in Lebanon died after being tortured by a CIA officer with an electroshock device. (The officer...
...died last May and asked him whether he had known all along about the diversion of funds from Iranian arms sales to the contras. "Casey nodded a frail yes." When asked why, Casey said, "I believed." Woodward says the CIA at one time used the late Lebanese President-elect Bashir Gemayel and El Salvador President Jose Napoleon Duarte as informants. The CIA's reaction: "No comment...
...time or another," the CIA listed the late Lebanese President Bashir Gemayel and Salvadoran President Jose Napoleon Duarte among its "assets." Gemayel's Christian Militia received $10 million in covert aid. Duarte was more than a casual informant but was not fully controlled, the magazine says...