NAZARETH: THE BOSOM FRIENDS OF HUMAN RIGHTS PROMOTER GERMANY UNVEILED. The roadside signpost bearing the information “Facility 1391” was removed months ago. Now there is nothing to identify the concrete fortress guarded by two watchtowers overlooking a kibbutz in central Israel. The site’s location is one of the most closely guarded secrets in Israel: it is not marked on maps, it is erased from aerial photographs and military censors reject publication of any identifying details in the local media. But this summer the Israeli government, under pressure from the courts, admitted that Facility 1391 serves as a “secret prison,” what one local newspaper termed “Israel’s Guantanamo.” But the prisoners of Facility 1391 ­including hundreds of Lebanese - that went missing during the Israeli Army’s 18-year occupation of the country’s south have even fewer safeguards. the location of the military jail has never been publicly identified. Even the International Red Cross is barred. “Anyone entering the prison can literally be made to disappear ­ potentially for ever,” says Leah Tsemel, an Israeli lawyer. The only information available on Facility 1391 surfaced this summer after Tsemel managed to take affidavits from a handful of Palestinians who were detained at the prison. These testimonies reveal shocking facts about the jail, particularly its routine use of extreme forms of torture. According to several affidavits, the prison is crowded with inmates. Given that Israel says it only ever held a handful of Palestinians there, and none is now being detained, the question is: who is incarcerated in Facility 1391? The answer appears to be exclusively foreign Arab nationals, including Lebanese, Jordanians, Syrians, Iranians, Moroccans and Iraqis. The prison is run by a wing of army intelligence known as Unit 504; Palestinians, on the other hand, are handled by the Shin Bet. How many prisoners are being held in Facility 1391 is a bigger mystery. The Friends of Prisoners Committee in Nazareth claims 150 Jordanian nationals alone have “gone missing” from Israel’s prison system in recent years. Other inmates include victims of Israeli kidnappings, particularly in Lebanon. For example, four Iranian government officials who disappeared in Beirut in 1982 and have never been accounted for are believed to have been snatched by Israel. And then there is suspicion that Israel may be taking advantage of the United States to sell expert interrogation services to its allies. “Israel has decades of expertise in torturing and interrogating Arab prisoners ­ exactly the skills the Americans now need since their invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq.” The iron curtain of secrecy surrounding Facility 1391 was finally torn this summer after Tsemel launched legal battles to trace a handful of Palestinian prisoners who disappeared during Israel’s massive re-invasion of the West Bank in April 2002. Apparently Israel, faced with a swelling number of detainees, opened the doors of Facility 1391 for the first time to Palestinians. The families, through Tsemel, issued habeas corpus writs, demanding presentation of the missing Palestinians in court. Cornered, the authorities were forced to admit that the secret prison existed. They have been trying to impose an information blackout ever since. The affidavits, however, reveal degrading conditions and torture as commonplace in Facility 1391. Inmates describe tiny cells, measuring less than 2 meters by 2 meters, whose walls are painted black and dimly lit by a single bulb 24 hours a day. By comaparison Auschwitz was a spacious, airy and leafy jail establishment. Inside 1391 are damp and foul-smelling mattresses on which to sleep, rarely emptied buckets are used as toilets, and a single tap in the room is under the control of invisible guards. Loud noises prevent them from sleeping and air-conditioning can be turned on to make them shiver with cold. Hannah Friedman, director of the Public Committee Against Torture, says her group has been recording a steady rise in such cases in Israeli jails during the intifada. A recent survey showed 58 percent of Palestinian prisoners reported being subjected to overt violence, including beatings, kicking, shaking, being forced into painful positions and having handcuffs intentionally tightened. One Palestinian held in Facility 1391, 23-year-old Mohammed Jadallah of Nablus, says, for example, that he was repeatedly beaten, his shackles were tightened, he was tied in painful positions to a chair and was not allowed to go to the toilet. He was prevented from sleeping, with water thrown on him if he nodded off. He adds that the interrogators showed him pictures of several family members and threatened to harm them. “They brought me a picture of my father in prison clothes and played a cassette of him as a detainee. They threatened to imprison and torture him.” But the most horrific accounts come not from Palestinians but the long-term inmates, Arab foreign nationals, who are interrogated by Unit 504. The most high-profile detainee, Mustafa Dirani, who Israel recently admitted was moved to Facility 1391 after he was kidnapped from Lebanon by agents in 1994. Dirani spent eight years in Facility 1391. In the first months of his capture he was tortured by a senior army interrogator known only as “Major George.” George is accused of inserting a wooden baton into his rectum. Dirani’s accusations have been corroborated by affidavits from other soldiers who served in the prison. One interrogator, TN, says: “I know that it was customary to insert a stick in the rectum. The intention was that the stick would be inserted if the subject did not talk.” A man in military uniform said: “You confess or you’re done for, and no one will know what happened to you. Confession or death.” As earlier indicated, Auschwitz was a comparably leafy and pleasant place with fresh air through barracks windows compared with 2 by 3 meter sized Jewish cells painted black inside. But European Union identities from the Greens party like German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer and the Jewess Frau Roth ignore Israeli human rights abuses, regardless how grave they are. Fischer - a born Gypsy, known in Washington as the street fighter with the black leather jacket and an iron rod under his arm - is highly prone to blackmail. It is fully understandable, that Islam cannot accept that inhuman German stance. An Arab political analyst added,"...if we get hold of Fischer, he will get a stick in the ar... to know how that feels"

WWW.debka.com - an Israeli war propaganda internet web-site reports on its front page, "Debka file's War Diary - appearing daily new - is being included in the U.S. Congress Historic Collections to record the ( events of the ) war on Iraq." Thus, the day by day fraudulent reports will in years to come be used By U.S. Governments as a means to insist on their skewed history interpretations. Another holocaust-style rip-off - facing the world community - is already in the making. However, it is advisable not to open www.debka.com since web-site can act as a conduit for bug transmittal into computers. Israel sends out 95 percent of all bugs circulating the internet. 

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