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Wellington, Sept 6 NZPA - New Zealand journalist and activist Nicky Hager has uncovered one of world's largest "eavesdropping" intelligence bases in Israel, Israeli newspaper Haaretz reports.
Hager said the base in the Negev region, 33km west of the city of Beersheba, was central to the activities of the main Israel Defence Force's signals intelligence unit, one of the largest in the world, according to the newspaper.
It said Hager -- writing in Paris-based magazine Le Monde Diplomatique -- described the base as having 30 antennas and satellite dishes of different sizes and types, capable of eavesdropping on telephone calls and accessing the e-mail of "governments, international organisations, foreign companies, political groups and individuals."
One of the base's main purposes was to listen to transmissions from ships in the Mediterranean, and it played a key role in tapping underwater communication cables, mostly in the Mediterranean, connecting Israel with Europe.
Hager, 52, attracted considerable attention in 1996 when he wrote a book, Secret Power, on the role of New Zealand in international intelligence gathering, and exposed the role of New Zealand Government Communications Security Bureau and its links with a US-led Echelon global spying network.
Hager compared the Israeli base's capabilities to those of the US National Security Agency, Britain's Government Communications Headquarters and a similar organisation in France.
"However, there is one difference," he said at the end of the report. While those units were uncovered long ago, "the unit at Urim remained unknown until this report".
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So is it only a Jewish state
So is it only a Jewish state that is ineligible to guard itself....
When Radical nuttas and Media based activists are all around it devoted to its dismantlement or total destruction?
There certainly is an Evil order out on these poor people.
Time after Time after Time in History nations and powers have sought to wipe this race from the Earth,
Nicky Hager...Is that really sensational news considering the Haters of Israel and their Perpetual bombing and attacks on this state?? A whole series of wars have been executed against these people with the Goal of Obliteration...while Israel has acted with restraint against these belligerents sworn to their destruction.
How about a Boat load of Terrorists and Media Collaborators playing Aid ship Carrying Knives and Acting Violently as they Seek to Violate law requiring filtering of goods passed to sworn enemies who regularly try to find un filtered routes for Goods to carry weapons in as Israel civilians are being Fired on every day even as the aid ship was coming by the people devoted to Israels Destruction?
You are a strange man it seems with a stranger Logic!
GOD Bless Israel in its homeland... Peace to any people in their homeland Maori Jew Arab Palestinian.... The Jews only offence against Humanity has been the same one through history, while their Contributions nothing less than amazing.
Whether it be the Persians The Babylonians, The Egyptians of Today or the Past, the Greeks, the Romans, The Germans. The Catholic Church, The Turks, the KKK, or the activist packed Media of today; This peoples existance or being in their homeland is the only offence. Them having the Basic right to live according to their beliefs in a portion of their OWN OWNED land of millenia.
How evil is that? Now they are not allowed to protect it against people and religious backed activists that believe in participating in Wiping it from the Planet....
A Basic Core Muslim belief is that the Jews must be Obliterated and that this is the third and last time they will exist as a nation on the earth. Straight from real Muslims Mouths.
Check that fact out Mr investigator with one eye.
It is the passion behind the wars to date to destroy them...the religion of Islam describes that Muslims will tread down this nation and that even the rocks will call out to say that a Jew waits behind the rock needing their head severed off.
This Passion of hatred is not just a Muslim one, it is common to a Humanity that can not accept the fact of the Jewish position in Human history and so seek to deprive this large group of people from this their tiny strip of land.
The embarrassment for the last major attempt on these people made the haters hide for a short while but they are back as they will be until these people are vindicated and free or as the haters dressed in a white washed Executioners robe ultimately hope, gone!
Time for the Hateful Media and neighbors of this people to be peaceful in Deed or Go themselves!