Thursday, April 26, 2007

Arab MK suspected of aiding Hizbullah

From THE JERUSALEM POST, Apr. 25, 2007, by JPost.com Staff ...

[Arab Member of the Knesset] Azmi Bishara is suspected of having aided Israel's enemies during the Second Lebanon War.

Bishara is suspected of transferring information to Hizbullah during the war, of maintaining contacts with a foreign agent, and of money laundering.

Bishara denied the accusations on Wednesday afternoon...in an interview with Al-Jazeera TV ....
Bishara added that he had no intention of sitting in an Israeli court "like a common criminal," and that at this stage he also had no intention of returning to the country.... He also referred to the Israeli press as "totalitarian and hysterical."

Recently Bishara tendered his resignation from the Knesset, but as a former MK he continues to hold many of the privileges of an elected official ... including the more than NIS 72,000-a-year pension that he will receive for the next decade

....Bishara was last known to be in Egypt, but even his colleagues in Balad said they did not know his current whereabouts. ....

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