TOTAL INFORMATION ANALYSIS

Sunday, January 22, 2006

Sovereignty? What sovereignty?

From Daily Southon Jan 6:

"Federal prosecutors have taken the extraordinary step of requesting that portions of a crucial hearing in the terrorism case against Mohammed Salah be closed to the public and that code-named Israeli intelligence agents be allowed to testify in "light disguise" such as beards and sunglasses.

Noting that information classified under Israeli law is presumed classified under American law, the prosecutors contend testimony from the agents should be conducted under a federal law called the Classified Information Procedures Act. The request, filed Thursday, is pending before U.S. District Judge Amy St. Eve...

The Salah case would mark the first time agents of the Israel Security Agency have testified abroad — and although the agents are willing to testify in front of Salah and his lawyers, they don't want to do it publicly.

Salah, a longtime Bridgeview resident and the only U.S. citizen to be officially designated an international terrorist by the federal government, was indicted in 2004 on charges he served as a high-ranking operative of the militant Palestinian group Hamas.

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