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Israel Charges 3 Arabs with Spying for Syria

   VOA News 05 August 2010

   Israel  has  charged three Arabs with spying for Syria and planning to
   kidnap a Syrian pilot who defected to Israel.
   Two of the men are from a northern Druze village, Majdal Shams, in the
   Golan  Heights,  near  the  Syrian  border.  The  other  is an Israeli
   citizen.
   An  indictment  says the men passed details and photographs of Israeli
   army installations to a Syrian agent.
   It  also says they gathered information on a Syrian pilot who defected
   to Israel in 1989.
   Prosecutors allege the men drew up a plan to kidnap the pilot.
   Israeli  media  say Druze residents recently rioted when investigators
   searched one of the suspects' home.

   Some information for this report was provided by AFP and AP.

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