Australia Deeply Involved in MR X Case

Local Editor

The Australian newspaper revealed Saturday that Australian intelligence had detailed knowledge of the case of the Melbourne "Israeli" spy, who had died in a Tel Aviv jail in 2010.

"Every day that goes by you see how deeply involved they were," a senior "Israeli" official told The Australian newspaper. "It is clear they were in the know long before he died."
The unnamed source told the paper that Australian officials suspected the man known as "Prisoner X" of spying for "Israel" and had interrogated him, adding "they (the Australians) knew many things".
"Then, when the coffin was returned to Australia, they knew he was not some backpacker who got lost trekking," the official said.

The fact that the detainee, held in a high security prison under continuous surveillance, managed to hang himself has raised questions and fed conspiracy theories that have been reported by the "Israeli" and Australian media.
Many questions remain unanswered in the mysterious case and Zygier's family has not commented since the Australian Broadcasting Corporation broke the story naming him as Prisoner X last week.
Australia's Foreign Minister Bob Carr said last week he was troubled by Zygier's death but could do little without a complaint from the family.

Carr, who only became foreign minister in early 2012, had earlier said he had been told there was no record of contact between the prisoner's family and the Australian embassy in Tel Aviv or the Department of Foreign Affairs in Canberra.
"So on my advice, the Australian government was not informed of his detention by his family or by anyone else," he told the ABC.
Carr said Canberra had sought assurances at the time that the detainee's legal rights would be respected and that he was not being mistreated.
"At no stage during his detention did the Australian government receive any request from the individual or his family to extend consular support," he added.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by moqawama.org