TORTURING AND CRUSHING THE PALESTINIANS

A secret letter from inside Arafat's Gulag

MER - Washington - 5/5:
As Arafat gives interviews to the worst of the American Jewish leaders -- to people like Henry Siegman whose organization, the American Jewish Congress, spent decades viciously vilifying everything Palestinian, including the PLO, and now actively pushes the Apartheid-type "autonomy" -- the torturing in Arafat's prisons continues to escalate. [Incidentally, Arafat chose to tell Siegman that he would accept any scrap offered him by anyone, even putting the Palestinian "capital" in Abu Dis and pretending that this is part of Jerusalem!]

Amazing. Rather than telling his own people Arafat choose earlier this year to tell Bill Clinton in the White House whom he has chosen to lead the Palestinians after him; and now chooses to tell Henry Siegman that the Palestinians are giving up about the real Jerusalem!

Now to the most recent evidence of terrible repression and torture.

After the initial purposeful confusion, it now seems most likely that it was Arafat's own secret police who carried out the recent assassination of Hamas leader, Mohyeedine ash-Sharaf, the man at the top of Israel's most wanted list. Then, when caught by an unexpected pathology report the desperate "Palestinian Authority" first threw the blame Israel's way, then when severely pressured by the Israelis made up a story that Hamas had killed its own! [For detailed background information see the exclusive article by Professor Tanya Reinhart and other information published last month by MER].

What has followed -- coordinated ever more closely with the Shinbet and the CIA -- is another wave of severe repression, intimidation, deception, and torture from the Arafat "PA". The following secret letter was smuggled out of what has become the spreading Palestinian Gulag.

SECRET LETTER FROM THE PRISONER GHASSAN ADDASI

(Translated from original Arabic)

Dear brother May Allah protect you,
[Standard format used in writing letters in Arabic]

If you receive this letter, then work on distributing it in the media, the widest possible.

With the purest of greetings.

To the Dear Palestinian People,

[First I tell you], I know that this letter might send me to the gallows. I am dying a million times every day in this prison of mine.

Let everyone know that I know nothing about the martyrdom of Mohyeedine ash-Sharif. I did not participate, nor was I witness to his death as the interrogators claim. I recounted this after torture and threats I have never seen in my life. They accused me of treachery, and that I participated in the assassination of Mohyeedine for the Jews. They beat me hard. They deprived me of sleep for three consecutive days. I was hanged with one hand tied [to a rope] in the roof of the cell. They practiced a world of abuses on me, and the
worst of savagery. The tongue cannot recount or describe [Arabic idiom]. All of this was so that I recount a story [riwayah] they wrote in full and I did not know. It was the product of the minds of Rajjoub, Tayyib Abdel Rahim, Tirawi, Ismail Rajab and other interrogators [of the Palestinian General Intelligence Directorate]. They told me I needed to confess, under duress and threats.

I told Sheikh Mahmoud Musleh of what has happened to me. Before MP Hatim Abdel Qadir came and visited, Jibril [Rajjoub] sat with me and made me believe they held my sister. He threatened they would do things to her if I told Hatim Abdel Qadir that I was the subject of torture. They told me to say that I confessed, on my own. This is what happened. By Allah, I did it only to protect my sister's chastity, purity and honor.

I knew afterwards that I was tricked and that my sister was not incarcerated.

Here I am today, I tell the Palestinian people, I am innocent. I tell my brethren in HAMAS that I did not deceive them. What I was subjected to was more than what I could endure. The prophet of Islam, peace be upon him, allowed `Ammar Ibn Yassir to curse him under torture. I do not have the faith of `Ammar Ibn Yassir.

I call upon President Yassir `Arafat and ask him to grant me [the age-old Arab pact] of AMAN [safety]. I ask him to grant me the chance to tell the truth before the media.

I want everyone to know, and first and foremost my brothers and family, that I am innocent of what they accuse me of.  I was asleep at home when the blast occured.

I write this letter to exonerate myself. They [the Preventive Police] are capable of forcing me to say that I did not write any letter. They have means and ways of torture, Iblees [Diablos] himself is uncapable of imagining.

Last but not least, if this letter was the last vow I say in this world, I ask my family [Ahlee], the Palestinian people, and my brethren in HAMAS to forgive me all. Allah knows I am innocent and He is enough witness."

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