Posted on 11/23/2007 7:05:01 AM PST by george76
A psychiatrist who serves in the IDF reserves is suspected of offering classified information to foreign intelligence officials, including those from Iran, police announced Friday morning.
45-year-old David Shamir, ranked as major in the army, was indicted on severe charges of attempted espionage, contacts with a foreign agent and perverting the course of justice.
He was arrested by the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) in cooperation with the Israel Police's Serious and International Crimes Unit on November 14, police said.
According to the prosecution, during his IDF reserve duty, the psychiatrist was exposed to classified material including emergency plans of the IDF Medical Corps, detailed plans for the deployment of medical units and control centers, procedures for providing psychiatric services to the home front during a war and tactics for evacuating civilians in the event of rocket attacks, as well as IDF intelligence and operations assessments.
The November 22 indictment served in the Petah Tikva Magistrate's Court asserts that "in April 2007, Shamir decided to provide information to hostile entities in exchange for money and he contacted the Iranian Foreign Ministry by electronic mail."
He allegedly introduced himself in the mail as a civilian and an Israeli officer "well tuned in to what goes on in Israel."
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Shamir, who ran a drug rehabilitation clinic, was also found to be in possession of marijuana, police said.
“This fact surprised the investigators, in light of the fact that he is a civil servant in a government institution who as part of his job is supposed to treat suspects sent by the court for drug rehabilitation treatment,” read a police statement.
Police said that Shamir would also be indicted on drugs charges.
Maybe the NY Times will be looking to add this guy to their payroll after his sentence.
This guy is doomed in Israel. And well he should be. Death to traitors.
yikes
must have been the equivalent of a lib/dem....
he should be shot before a firing squad and send the bill for the bullet to the family!!!!
if he were a traitor in the US ~ the lib/dems would put him on the cover of vanity fair driving a race car!!!
That, and the fact he is a shrink, is a slam dunk for a successful insanity defense...
oops :
Shamir sent faxes from his home to the Iranian consulates in London and Turkey and, about a month ago, after receiving no responses, he faxed them again. Police said that after sending the faxes he destroyed them and saved the fax numbers to his cellular phone memory in order lessen the chances of detection.
Traitor + Idiot + Israeli = Death.
I am sick to death of people selling out their country. People do it because nobody is hung for it anymore.
There is nothing lower then a rat, except a sell-out rat who would sell out to Iran's killers, endangering all Israeli citizens.
This fool would be a good example ?
The only person executed so far was Adolph Eichman. - tom
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To the best of my knowledge, the only crime for which the state of Israel can impose the death penalty is murder in connection with the Nazi Holocaust. So the worst penalty that this Shamir will get is a lengthy prison term - and it appears to be appropriate for the offenses he is alleged to have committed. Just goes to show how marijuana can screw up one's value system.
As I understand it Israel has a death penalty for what they call severe crimes; like treason , terrorism, mass murder, and genocide.
However, other than Eichmann anyone with a death sentence has had it overturned on appeal. - Tom
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