The word “terror” appeared 2 times in this article's opening at its peak in 2010. Today the opening carries none, and neither does the rest of the article, references included.
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X and Prisoner X , are placeholder names for a prisoner allegedly being held for unspecified crimes in Israel's maximum security Ayalon jail. A source in the Israeli prison service claimed that the individual is a "terrorist" with a history of involvement with a banned organization (eg. It is reported that the man is confined in total seclusion, and that he is being housed in the cell that was built for Yigal Amir , the assassin of Yitzhak Rabin . An article in Hebrew about "Mister X" appeared on June 13, 2010 in the Israeli news website Ynet , but was deleted several hours later because of a gag order requested by the Israeli intelligence service, Shabak . A Seattle -based blog , "Tikun Olam", which regularly reports on the Israeli intelligence services, published a screenshot of the article, as saved by Yahoo! Web cache , and an English translation. Ynet has learned that a man has been imprisoned for some time in wing 15 of Ayalon Prison but nobody knows who he is and what charges he is being jailed for. Nobody talks to him, nobody sees him, nobody visits him, nobody knows he is in jail. "He was placed in full and complete separation from the outside world," said an Israel Prison Service official. To enter the wing where the detainee is being held, you have to pass the jailers on the southern side of the prison and go through double iron doors. Unlike regular separation wings, where prisoners can talk loudly between the cells or see the goings-on in the corridors with mirrors, wing 15 has only one cell without neighboring cells and without a corridor, so that whoever is jailed in it is completely isolated from any living being. The Association for Civil Rights in Israel sent a letter to the attorney general , Yehuda Weinstein , protesting the conditions of this man’s detention. The chief legal counsel for the Association, Dan Yakir, wrote: It is insupportable that, in a democratic country, authorities can arrest people in complete secrecy and disappear them from public view without the public even knowing such an arrest took place. The Shabak gag order prohibiting mention of Mr. X or identifying him or her is still in place. In late June, The Daily Telegraph broke the gag by reporting the story, though it did not identify who the detainee was. The report speculated that the case may involve espionage . X, Prisoner With No Name is Alleged ‘Terrorist’ Israel gripped by identity of 'Prisoner X' Uproar in Israel over top secret prisoner Speculation rife over identity of Israel's prisoner ‘Mr X’ The Strange Case of Israel’s Mr.1
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Ben Zygier was an Australian-Israeli citizen who was a veteran of the Israel Defense Forces and allegedly an agent of Mossad .He was imprisoned in Ayalon Prison , Ramla , Israel and died in custody in 2010, reportedly by hanging himself in a maximum-security cell designed to be suicide-proof.X and Mister X were placeholder names for him while he was being held in strict secrecy for unspecified crimes.The Israeli government has acknowledged that a prisoner held under a pseudonym died in custody and confirmed the prisoner's identity as Ben Zygier.Before an Australian Broadcasting Corporation investigation identified Zygier in February 2013, little was known about him.Until that report aired, Israeli media were subject to a media blackout .
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Ben Zygier was an Australian-Israeli citizen who was a veteran of the Israel Defense Forces and allegedly an agent of Mossad . He was imprisoned in Ayalon Prison , Ramla , Israel and died in custody in 2010, reportedly by hanging himself in a maximum-security cell designed to be suicide-proof. X and Mister X were placeholder names for him while he was being held in strict secrecy for unspecified crimes.
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Australian-Israeli citizen who died at Ayalon Prison in Israel in 2010 Ben Zygier was an Australian-Israeli citizen who was a veteran of the Israel Defense Forces and allegedly an agent of Mossad . He was imprisoned in Ayalon Prison , Ramla , Israel and died in custody in 2010, reportedly by hanging himself in a maximum-security cell designed to be suicide-proof. X and Mister X were placeholder names for him while he was being held in strict secrecy for unspecified crimes.
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Australian-Israeli citizen who died at Ayalon Prison in Israel in 2010 Ben Zygier ( Hebrew : בן זיגייר ) was an Australian-Israeli citizen who was a veteran of the Israel Defense Forces and allegedly an agent of Mossad . He was imprisoned in Ayalon Prison , Ramla , Israel and died in custody in 2010, reportedly by hanging himself in a maximum-security cell designed to be suicide-proof. X and Mister X were placeholder names for him while he was being held in strict secrecy for unspecified crimes.
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