Word: lubrani
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...critics of Iran and hard-liners on maintaining the U.S. presence in Iraq. They include six current Bush Administration officials - among them U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Zalmay Khalilzad and his wife, Undersecretary of State Paula Dobriansky - as well as think-tank academics, conservative opinion columnists and Uri Lubrani, the top adviser on Iran to Israel's Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. Though it is not clear how many will actually attend the conference, a spokesman for the organizers, the Washington-based Foundation for Defense of Democracies, said the meeting was intended "to bring together a wide range of experts...
...Khiam has a reputation for torture and abuse. The Israelis deny any responsibility. "It is a Lebanese jail under the authority of General Lahad," says Uri Lubrani, in charge of Lebanese affairs for the Israeli Defense Ministry. "If we ask him to provide us and some 120,000 Lebanese with security, we have to let him do it his way." In its 1986 annual report, Amnesty International quoted ex-prisoners as saying those held at El Khiam were beaten with fists and thick electric cable during interrogations. Prisoners were allegedly hooded and handcuffed, stripped and soaked with water and subjected...
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