Wife of prisoner before release, names published on Net

Описание: (27 Jan 2004)
Jerusalem
1. Various of Israel Prison Service homepage
2. Various of webpage with names of prisoners due to be released

Tel Aviv
3. Exteriors of court
4. Mustafa Dirani seated in courtroom with media
5. Israeli guard watching and pan down to Dirani
6. Courtroom
7. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Mustafa Dirani, guerrilla leader:
"Israel accuses me of being behind the kidnapping of Ron Arad and I don't care what they say when it comes to me but what I can tell you is that Israel went into Lebanon, occupied the land and killed the people and the children and kicked people from their homes and killed tens of thousands of people and continue to do so and this is being witnessed by everybody so I don't really care what Israel says about me".
(Question from reporter: "What about Arad?")
"Your state (Israel) is following his case and they'll find out where he is."
(Question from reporter: "You report that you mistreated him (Arad)?"
"This is false. What I did with Arad is very human but your state of Israel treated me inhumanely."
8. Wide of courtroom and zoom in to Dirani seated with guard

Jerusalem
9. SOUNDBITE: (English) Yehudit Dansberg, Victims of Arab Terror
"They are not supposed to make this exchange for several reasons: first of all they encourage terror by giving it a prize by giving them whatever they demand. We're not allowed to encourage the terror or the terrorists. We have already experienced that it did encourage terror when we released murderers previously. Seventy percent of released murderers returned to terror. It shows us that we should never release murderers or terrorists."
10. Dansberg seated

Ramallah, West Bank
11. Fadwa Barghouti reading paper
12. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Fadwa Barghouti, wife of imprisoned Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti:
"I cannot hide my sadness and the sadness of all the friends of Marwan because we had high hopes that Marwan would be included in that list
since he is a special case and is the symbol of the Palestinian Intifadah and his release was important. But we hope such a deal will open the gate for more releases and will be the first step that will lead to the release of Marwan Barghouti."
13. Various of pictures of Marwan Barghouti
14. Fadwa Barghouti at door to home


STORYLINE:

Israeli officials on Tuesday released the names of prisoners to be freed in a swap with Lebanese Hezbollah guerrillas, after soldiers started exhuming the bodies of Lebanese fighters to be returned as part of the deal.

In the exchange, to take place on Thursday, Israel will turn over the bodies and release 436 prisoners in return for a captive Israeli businessman and three soldiers, captured along the border with Lebanon in 2000 and presumed dead.

Among those to be released will be 400 Palestinians, 35 from Arab countries and a German convicted of spying for Hezbollah.

The lists were posted on the Israeli prison service's Internet Web site.

The list of Lebanese included the two most prominent inmates to be freed, guerrilla leaders Mustafa Dirani and Sheik Abdel Karim Obeid, abducted from south Lebanon in 1994 and 1989 respectively.

Just days before his expected release Dirani testified at the Tel Aviv District Court in the lawsuit he filed against the State of Israel in March 2002 claiming nearly 1,3 million US dollars in damages for alleged torture and rape by Israeli interrogators.

Dirani and Obeid were kidnapped as bargaining chips for Ron Arad, an Israeli airman shot down over Lebanon in 1986.

Dirani held Arad in the first two years, and reportedly sold the airman to Iran in 1988, a claim he denied in court.




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