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IDF facility tapped all calls from Israel abroad until 2004
By Haaretz Staff and Channel 10
Tags: military censor, IDF 
Haaretz.com/Channel 10 daily feature for November 6, 2007.

For thirty years, the Israel Defense Forces military censor operated a special surveillance facility in the center of Tel Aviv, officially designed to tap the phone conversation of foreign journalists reporting to their home countries.

The underground facility remained in operation until 2004, but only recently, it was revealed that the soldiers serving in it did not limit their eavesdropping to the journalists' conversation alone.

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mong the conversations tapped were those prime ministers held with world leaders and even private conversations by ordinary citizens.
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  1.   So? They did what they had to do AT THAT TIME 06:33  |  Jake 07/11/07
  2.   Am Hofshi, Aalek 10:34  |  Yossi 07/11/07
  3.   Still goes on today 10:52  |  Dov 07/11/07
  4.   NOT SURPRISING: ISRAEL IS A MILITARY JUNTA 12:24  |  TrippleJump 07/11/07
  5.   TRIPPLEjump.What do you expect?some Israeli Arabs call for war 12:42  |  PETER SM 07/11/07
  6.   Peter Sm and opoligia for fascism 13:16  |  Truths 07/11/07
  7.   TRUTH.How could blatant liars be trusted not to transmitt "other" 13:37  |  PETER S .M. 07/11/07
  8.   What a waste! 14:20  |  Bugged 07/11/07
  9.   Also every diplomat posted in Israel 14:48  |  Anne 07/11/07
  10.   IDF = Gestapo ? 15:03  |  POP 07/11/07
  11.   POP = Asshole ? 15:40  |  mich 07/11/07
  12.   jake`s illogical argument 15:48  |  mehmet 07/11/07
  13.   Much Needed 16:19  |  Elan 07/11/07
  14.   WHERE IS THE PROBLEM? 17:08  |  Kooky Dennt 07/11/07
  15.   so when my bf called me...? 18:53  |  Val 07/11/07
  16.   I`ll tell you what`s the problem 19:16  |  Joppe 07/11/07
  17.   Oh the fun I could have had if I`d known 20:32  |  Peter Wood 07/11/07
  18.   I invite IDF to listen to all my international calls 21:01  |  Genuine Tosefta 07/11/07
  19.   Why they REALLY shut down... 21:24  |  J.B. 07/11/07
  20.   TRURTH"Israel will continue to exist till obliterated by Islam" 21:41  |  PETER S.M. 07/11/07
  21.   What horrible spies in the IDF...some free thinkers... 22:02  |  Dutch 07/11/07
  22.   Internet is not safe 22:02  |  Lyes 07/11/07
  23.   Now Arabs can leak secrets to Hezbollah without fear! 22:59  |  Efox 07/11/07
  24.   re: Joppe Just which government are you talking about? 23:02  |  Efox 07/11/07
  25.   re: mehmet You wish Turkey was so kind as Israel 23:06  |  Efox 07/11/07
  26.   Bush`s wisdom on Slowman`s education 00:09  |  Staf Haar 08/11/07
  27.   Yeah, right.... 00:10  |  Ofer 08/11/07
  28.   Good! 01:36  |  Nechama 08/11/07
  29.   Genuine Tosefta # 18 07:15  |  Philippe 08/11/07
  30.   EVIDENCE AVAILABLE :I TOLD MY WIFE I LOVE HER 07:25  |  B.Igears 08/11/07
  31.   Philippe, do not concern yourself 18:13  |  Genuine Tosefta 08/11/07
  32.   Jake #1 02:44  |  jjvanka 09/11/07
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