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In separate, lengthy conversations, they repeated the stories they had told U.S. consular officer Alexandra U. Johnson in Jerusalem, adding details as they were pressed for specifics, but insisting that the charges against them were untrue.

After a month of brutality and degradation, about half of it spent in a 3-by-6-foot steel isolation box, whose only opening was a Judas window in the door, Elias says, he was no longer insisting that match was not a tank.

His ordeal, he says, began in April 1975, when Israeli security officers in civilian clothes beat on the doors and windows of his family home about 2 a.m., waking the dozen people who lived there, and led him away blindfolded after searching the house.

6 – that is the worst" – Abu Raad recalls that several interrogators began asking him about membership in Palestinian guerrilla groups, arms possession and training, participation in terrorist operations such as attacks on Israeli patrols.

One interrogator, who had not been involved in previous grillings, said he needed a confession because “I want a star,” Abu Raad said, while others stripped him, propped him against a wall in the frisk pose and beat his legs and genitals from behind with a stave until he fell to the ground, his right let trembling uncontrollably.

He was arrested in April 1976 and taken to the Russian Compound for interrogation on charges that he belonged to the Popular Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a Marxist-oriented guerrilla group headed by Nayef Hawatmeh.

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