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That day, September 22, Mahajna spent several minutes listening to Jabur's
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Jabur was born on October 15, 1976, in Amman, Jordan, to Palestinian refugees
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pattern, which characterizes quite a few Al-Qaida and international terror
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The close cooperation between Israel and Jordan regarding the war on terror is
also nothing new. The two countries cooperated even before signing a peace
treaty in 1994, and Jordan's King Hussein and his top officials, including the
secret service heads, would secretly meet with Israeli leaders and intelligence
officials. Once the peace treaty was signed, the cooperation increased.
A shot, a pill, a flight
Jabur's statement sheds more light on the matter. This is what he had to say
about Jordan and Israel: "I was taken to Jordan by the American forces, on a
plane, not before we got an injection and a pill. The Jordanian forces received us
and began an interrogation, which lasted a month and a half. Afterward they took
me to the border and handed me over to Israeli intelligence."

Jabur said he was taken by car from the detention facility in Jordan and that the
Jordanians then told him to get on a bus to Israel. He said he refused and told
them: "If you want to hand me over to the Jews, you'll have to do it yourself."

The Jordanians put him in a car carrying Israeli security officials. "I saw sunlight
for the first time when they brought me to Israel," said Jabur. "It was also the first
time I saw the Red Cross in two and a half years."

In his statement, Jabur makes no complaints of torture against the Shin Bet, in
contrast to what he said he underwent at the hands of Pakistani and American
interrogators.

Mahajna and Talhami became familiar with the incident because the former
represents the Palestinian Authority "prisoners club," and the two lawyers took
down Jabur's statement on behalf of the Public Committee Against Torture in
Israel.

According to the Shin Bet, Jabur was first detained in Israel on September 18,
and his remand has been extended several times since then. The last extension
was granted on October 23 for eight days.

The military tribunal at Kishon prison is due Tuesday to discuss whether to

extend Jabur's remand again, indict him or return him to Jordan. Jabur is
concerned about something else: that he will be transferred, like merchandise, to
the Palestinian Authority security services.

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1. My heart bleeds for Jabur. Not seeing the 10:48 | Ari ben Yisrael 31/10/06
Red Cross for 2yrs
2. Terror 11:05 | zznhl 31/10/06
3. Terror 11:13 | zznhl 31/10/06
4. US anger.. 11:16 | Guess who 31/10/06
5. Whats the big deal??? 11:31 | Nicole 31/10/06
6. Wierd 11:51 | wissam 31/10/06
7. CIA sending its suspects to be tortured in 12:06 | Clickfool 31/10/06
Morocco now
8. Innocent until proven guilty? 12:20 | PalWatch 31/10/06
9. THE EUROPEANS KICKED THEM 12:27 | Messaoud 31/10/06
OUT... NOW THEY TRY TEL AVIV
10. to # 6 and 7 12:45 | Omid 31/10/06
11. The US immediately shipped us what we 12:49 | redmike 31/10/06
needed in the last war !
12. Is this important? Iran is building nukes. 13:18 | Simon 31/10/06
13. 9 RESPONSES IN TOTAL...IS THIS 13:22 | SCOTT MILLER 31/10/06
NEWS? WHO CARES? NOBODY!
HAHAHA
14. re: Nicole #5 13:23 | Paulo 31/10/06
15. re: Clickfool #7 13:26 | Paulo 31/10/06
16. re: Scott Miller 13:41 | Paulo 31/10/06
17. JORDAN... KINGDOM OF TREASON 13:42 | Messaoud 31/10/06
18. re: Simon 13:49 | Paulo 31/10/06
19. Wonderful news! 13:56 | Shammy 31/10/06
20. re: Redmike #11 13:58 | Paulo 31/10/06
21. The short-sighted Simon # 12 14:00 | Clickfool 31/10/06
22. What an irrelevant article. Come on, 14:10 | Dan 31/10/06
Haaretz. Do better than that
23. STOP THE PRESSES!!!!!!!!!! 14:15 | Brant 31/10/06
24. Please to hear the CIA is doing their job! 14:22 | Shammy 31/10/06
25. hearsay and innuendo..by Jew hating Brits 14:48 | richie 31/10/06
26. What`s this? 15:02 | Nechama 31/10/06
27. EUROPEANS: Terrorists are knocking at 15:11 | Vittorio 31/10/06
your doors. Appeasement....
28. too bad 15:27 | terror watch 31/10/06
29. Yes, and What of It? 15:36 | Jane 31/10/06
30. Why is this news? 16:00 | bat yam 31/10/06
31. Sure they also helped torture them 16:13 | Hermina 31/10/06
32. #20 - difference between censorship and 16:14 | redmike 31/10/06
restraint ..
33. re STOP THE PRESSES!! 16:19 | Laurent 31/10/06
Fishbourn
34. ClickFOOL about what are you so upset? 16:39 | Jonathan S 31/10/06
#7
35. PalWatch 16:48 | Laurent 31/10/06
Fishbourn
36. re; CIA 17:33 | Kal 31/10/06
37. Terrible news!!!!!! 18:25 | eva 31/10/06
38. Wissan: how you choose what you read 18:33 | Jasmine Murphy 31/10/06
39. Is it necessary to report this 19:18 | Chris Linthwaite 31/10/06
40. Double standards missed from article - 19:22 | William 31/10/06
Messaoud
41. European appeasement - Vittorio #27 19:27 | William 31/10/06
42. Is it necessary to report double standards? 21:07 | Lebanese 31/10/06
admirer
43. Iran is building nukes.... 21:11 | Lebanese 31/10/06
admirer
44. No difference between Israel and Syria 16:03 | John 01/11/06
there...
45. Zionism, Irrelevant Within A Generation 21:35 | Stephen 01/11/06

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