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Arash

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Aug 17, 2005, 7:09:21 AM8/17/05

Ha'aretz Israel
August 17, 2005

AIPAC lobbyists, U.S. analyst plead not guilty of disclosing classified data

By Shmuel Rosner
rosner AT haaretz.co.il

A Pentagon analyst and two former officials of th American Israel Public Affairs
Committee (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIPAC_espionage_scandal), an Israeli lobby
group, pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to charges of conspiring to obtain and disclose
classified national defense information.

Steven Rosen (http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Iran-Contra_II), 63, the
former foreign policy director for AIPAC, and AIPAC's former senior Middle East
analyst, Keith Weissman, pleaded not guilty to charges of conspiracy to communicate
national defense information provided by analyst Lawrence Franklin
(http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Larry_Franklin).

Steven Rosen also pleaded not guilty to helping Larry Franklin, 58, pass on written
classified information.

The three will be tried together on January 3, 2006.

U.S. vs Lawrence Franklin, Steven Rosen, and Keith Weissman
http://news.findlaw.com/nytimes/docs/dod/usfrnklin80205ind.pdf

Assistant U.S. Attorney Kevin DiGregory said the total information at issue in the
case related to five documents. He did not give any further details.

Steven Rosen and Keith Weissman, 53, are accused of disclosing the classified
information to some members of the media, a senior fellow at a Washington think tank
and at least three foreign government officials.

Larry Franklin had been previously indicted on similar charges but had to appear in
court under a revised indictment. He repeated his plea of not guilty to five counts
of conspiring to communicate classified information.

Larry Franklin worked as an analyst on the Iran desk within the Office of the
Secretary of Defense at the time the government says he disclosed classified
information. His case was a reminder of another that strained U.S. relations with
close ally Israel- the 1985 arrest of U.S. Navy analyst Jonathan Pollard, convicted
of leaking information to the Jewish state.

Larry Franklin was charged with giving Steven Rosen and Keith Weissman- whom AIPAC
fired in April after defending their conduct last year- top-secret information about
potential attacks on U.S. forces in Iraq.

Larry Franklin was also charged with giving classified information to an unidentified
diplomat, as part of an effort to advance his personal foreign policy agenda, the
indictment said.

According to the indictment, Larry Franklin gave the diplomat classified information
related to a Middle Eastern country's activities in Iraq.

The indictment also charged that between August 2002 and June 2004, Larry Franklin
gave the diplomat classified information relating to a weapons test conducted by an
unnamed Middle Eastern country.

Sources familiar with the investigation have said the diplomat was Israeli.

U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis ordered all three defendants to surrender their
passports and released them on bond but restricted their travel.

Some of the charges faced by defendants carry penalties of up to 10 years in jail.

Lawyers for the men refused to comment after the arraignment outside Washington.

When the indictment was returned earlier this month, Steven Rosen's attorney Abbe
Lowell called the charges unjustified.

"We expect that the trial will show that this prosecution represents a misguided
attempt to criminalize the public's right to participate in the political process,"
he said after the indictment was returned by a federal grand jury on August 4.

The Israeli diplomat in Washington who met several times with Larry Franklin has been
identified by officials as Naor Gilon (http://www.sw-asia.com/People/Bio917.htm),
head of the political department at the Israeli Embassy in Washington and a
specialist in proliferation issues.

Israeli officials in Washington have said Naor Gilon recently returned to Israel as
part of a scheduled rotation.

http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/613360.html

Pacifist

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Aug 17, 2005, 7:22:12 AM8/17/05

"The Juwes are The men that Will not be Blamed for nothing."

Your headline reminded me of the above strange graffiti that appeared
on a wall in London during the Jack the Ripper murders of the 19th
century.

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Immediately after the Eddowes murder a piece of her bloodstained apron
was found in a doorway in Goulston Street, Whitechapel. Above the piece
of apron, on the brick fascia in the doorway, was the legend, in chalk,
"The Juwes are The men that Will not be Blamed for nothing." A message
from the murderer, or simply anti-Semitic graffiti? Expert opinion is
divided.

http://www.met.police.uk/history/ripper.htm

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