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A Palestinian Disappears in Ukraine


(Der Spiegel-Germany) Benjamin Bidder, Ulrike Putz and Holger Stark - Dirar Abu Sisi, a Palestinian engineer from Gaza, boarded a train in Ukraine on Feb. 18. In Western intelligence circles it's been claimed that Ukrainian agents kidnapped him, then handed their victim over to the Israelis. He later reappeared in an Israeli jail. One informant says Israel had considered Abu Sisi a high-ranking Hamas man who knows a number of secrets. Jerusalem may believe that Abu Sisi had information relating to Gilad Shalit, the Israeli soldier kidnapped four and a half years ago by Hamas, according to another source.
2011-03-30 00:00:00
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