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To: RetiredNow who wrote (269467)	1/20/2006 8:56:51 PM
From: bentway	Respond to of 1571929

Franklin gets 12 years for giving information to AIPAC jpost.com Larry Franklin, the Pentagon analyst who admitted conveying classified information to staffers of the pro-Israel lobby (AIPAC) and to Israeli officials, was sentenced Friday to 12 years of prison and a $10,000 fine at the US District Court in Alexandria Virginia. Franklin's sentencing is part of a plea agreement reached between Franklin and the prosecutors in which the former Pentagon analyst would agree to testify against the two AIPAC employees - Steve Rosen and Keith Weissman in return for dismissing part of the counts he was charged with. Franklin will begin his prison term only after he testifies in Rosen and Weissman's trial, which is scheduled for the last week of April. According to the charges, Larry Franklin, a mid-level civilian employee in the Iran desk at the Pentagon, passed on classified information to the Aipac staffers as well as to Naor Gilon, the former political officer at the Israeli embassy in Washington. The information Franklin leaked concerned the Iranian threat to Israelis and other information on Iran and Iraq. Franklin was under FBI surveillance and his meetings with Israeli officials and AIPAC staffers were monitored. After being confronted by the FBI he agreed to cooperate and take part in a sting operation, which eventually incriminated the two AIPAC workers. Later Franklin stopped his cooperation with the investigators and was charged with communicating classified information. He then signed a plea agreement, which would also ensure that his would be able to receive part of his pension from the Pentagon. Franklin told the court he had no intention of harming the US national security.

To: RetiredNow who wrote (269467)	1/21/2006 10:12:41 AM
From: Taro	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571929

In fact both Arabs and Jews are semitic. Taro

To: RetiredNow who wrote (269467)	1/21/2006 5:44:31 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571929

You know so little about Jews. Jews are Semitic. Do you know what that means? They have lived in that land at least as long as the Palestinians. In fact, Muslim and Jew have lived side by side since Isaac and Ishmael if the Torah, Bible, and Qu'ran are to be believed. Neither side has any more right to than the other. So get off that trip. It's a red herring and you know it. Do you know the phrase: possession is 9/10 of the law? Do you know that if you squat on a property in US and are not legally kicked off the property, after a few years time you can take ownership? Now let's apply that to Israel. The last time the Jews occupied Palestine in any numbers were before the Great Dispora..........I think around 1000 AD. From 1000 to 1948, the majority occupants of Palestine were Arabs. Does that mean anything to you at all......or do you simply prefer being a neocon? Let me just add......it means a lot to the Palestinians. Screw them if they can't take a joke.