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and Gerald Gable Simon Surfwatch Internet censorship Wiesenthal Center –>Index: The origins of anti-semitism For the corresponding German-language stories from Swiss newspapers see bottom of page Swiss Demand Imprisonment for Mossad Spy By Alexander G. Higgins Associated Press Writer LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) – A Swiss prosecutor called Thursday for a 15-month prison sentence for an Israeli Mossad spy who admitted installing illegal wiretap equipment.
But the agent’s lawyers said he should be acquitted because he was trying to prevent terror attacks. The agent, being tried under the pseudonym Issac Bental , was caught in February 1998 trying to bug the apartment of a Swiss-Lebanese citizen whom Israel suspected of supporting terrorist acts by the anti-Israeli Hezbollah.
Defense attorney Ralph Zloczower said in his closing arguments that his client was obliged to collect information on terrorists even if it violated Swiss law. “The danger of terror is omnipresent for Israel, its inhabitants and Jews,” Zloczower said. “It is essential that the Israeli people have an effective intelligence agency to assure that threats to the country are recognized well in advance so that they can be successfully combatted.”
But deputy federal prosecutor Felix Baenziger argued there was no “immediate danger” to Israel. “The case presented falls far short of being an emergency situation,” he said. The five-judge panel was expected to issue a decision Friday. Bental was one of five Mossad agents caught installing wiretap equipment in the basement of an apartment building near the Swiss capital, Bern.
The other agents – two men and two women – were released by local police after questioning, but Bental was handed over to federal police because he was carrying a diplomatic bag containing the wiretapping tools. Bental spent 65 days in jail before being released on $2 million bail and the assurances of the Israeli government that he would