A Lebanese militia leader jailed in Israel said he was raped to extract a confession about missing Israeli airman Ron Arad. Mustafa Dirani, a former chief of the Amal militia, who is due to be released this week under a prisoner swap with Hezbollah, told Tel Aviv District Court on Tuesday that an intelligence major code-named George ordered a soldier to sodomize him.
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