E-mail from Aljazeera

From: Clayton Swisher
Sent: Friday, January 30, 2009 1:10 PM
To: kawther_salam [at] yahoo [dot] com
Cc: Stuart Pendleton
Subject: information posted on your site about IDF officers possibly involved in war crimes
Hello Kawther: By way of informal introduction, my name is Clayton Swisher, and I am a reporter with Al Jazeera English in Doha, Qatar.  I have cc’d our executive producer, Stuart Pendleton, in this email.

We are trying to establish whether or not to use the names you have posted.

I have some questions for you on the list you published.  A quick reply is appreciated.

1)  How did you obtain these names and would you be willing to discuss them on our broadcast?

2)  How did you obtain the pictures?

3) What threats have you received, if any, for publishing these names and photos?

4) Can you supply us with the names of any of your former journalist colleagues who are familiar with your work and who preferably are still active with Al Quds or Al Hayat Al Jadida?

5) Where can we locate (to arrange a studio, if necessary) and on what number can we reach you?

Thanks in advance,

Clayton Swisher

Clayton Swisher
Package Producer
Al Jazeera English
Doha, Qatar


From: Clayton Swisher [@aljazeera.net]
Sent: 31 January 2009 08:31
To: kawther [dot] salam [at] gmail [dot] com
Subject: FW: information posted on your site
Importance: High

This is my second attempt to reach you–please reply!

Clayton Swisher
Package Producer
Al Jazeera English
Doha, Qatar
—–Original Message—–
From: Clayton Swisher […@aljazeera.net]
Sent: 02 February 2009 13:10
To: Kawther Salam
Subject: RE: information posted on your site

please call me asap at the number below

Clayton Swisher
Package Producer
Al Jazeera English
Doha, Qatar
________________________________________
From: Kawther Salam [kawther [dot] salam [at] gmail [dot] com]
Sent: Monday, February 02, 2009 6:18 AM
To: C… S…
Subject: RE: information posted on your site

Hello,
I hope that I will be able to send you my reply tomorrow night. I am very busy. Now it’s 4:17AM, I must go to bed.
Best regards

________________________________

—–Original Message—–
From: Kawther Salam [mailto:kawther [dot] salam [at] gmail [dot] com]
Sent: 02 February 2009 19:47
To: ‘Clayton Swisher’
Subject: RE: information posted on your site

Hello Clayton,

Thank you for writing. Here are my answers to your questions.

1) How did you obtain these names and would you be willing to discuss them on our broadcast?

The names I partially have from my time working as a journalist in Palestine, and in part I have found them out investigating publically available information. All these issues are now new, but come from over 20 years of working as a journalist in Palestine and 6 years in exile.

I would have no problem discussing them in broadcast.

2)  How did you obtain the pictures?

Same as above. Many pictures are mine, others are publically available information found while investigating Israeli crimes and following the daily news in my homeland.

3) What threats have you received, if any, for publishing these names and photos?

I continually receive threats of one kind or another, insults, calls …
Some of these threats I take more serious than others.

During last October, November and beginning of December in the city of Vienna, I was followed, attacked twice, and I was approached by people with obvious bad intentions. I am approached all the time by strange people representing themselves as journalists or “friends”. In one ocassion a person came from Ireland to meet me in a Coffee house in the city, he was in company of some people who looked like a military and intellegence. Another person I don’t know him called and offered to meet me in Jordan.

In the course of the recent assault on Gaza, somebody who identified himself as a member of AIPAC wrote me. I think this was an attempt to intimidate me.

The information about all, or most of these things, is published on my Blog.

Some pertinent links:
http://www.kawther.info/wpr/2008/11/04/a-word-to-the-israeli-intelligence-system
http://www.kawther.info/wpr/2008/11/26/solidarity-statement-from-the-injc-women-in-barcelona
http://www.kawther.info/wpr/2008/12/02/solidarity-statement-by-association-of-journalists

I think that the threats etc. have to do with my work in general and not so much with my publishing of specific names. I think that more grave in the eyes of these people is that I have filed criminal complaints (also published) with the Israeli Attorney General (with cc to the ICC-CPI), and also with the German authorities.

Letter to the Attorney General of Israel
http://www.kawther.info/wpr/2008/03/25/letter-to-the-attorney-general-of-israel

Criminal Complaint To The Attorney General of Israel
http://www.kawther.info/wpr/2008/09/19/criminal-complaint-to-the-attorney-general-of-israel

4) Can you supply us with the names of any of your former journalist colleagues who are familiar with your work and who preferably are still active with Al Quds or Al Hayat Al Jadida?

Some References:
From Al-Hayat Al-Jadida …
From Al-Quds …
From Al-Fajr (closed, formerly in Jerusalem): …
From Al-Majd TV: …, …
From Israel: … , … , …
From Al-Ittihad (Haifa): Speak with editor-in-chief Ahmad Saad, or Sabri Hamdi
(they started working after I left Palestine but they know me)

Al-Jazeera Arabic made a film about me and other Palestinian journalists (I think in 2000 or 2001), the name was(in Arabic) “Military Censorship”, and got them in trouble with the GPO.

You could call Bet Agron (the Israeli GPO) and speak with Fawaz Kamal or Daniel Seaman, who will for sure tell you that I am a terrorist and that somebody should break my neck. Sometimes I send them my articles for censorship,( but after I publish).

Israeli Channel2: …. We made some films together in the past.

… (formerly with Haaretz)

5) Where can we locate (to arrange a studio, if necessary) and on what number can we reach you?


In … Call me at ….


  • But I have my own conditions for an interview.
  • 1) I will be allowed to tape the interview and post it at my website,
  • 2) The same for pictures: I or friends will be allowed to make photos.
  • 3) NO jews to take part in a meeting with me or are in your team. I would appreciate if no jews (Israelis) speak in the same program in which you air an interview with me – I dont want to be in a program where people will be allowed to legitimize the occupation and defend genocide.
  • 4) It is understood that you are not a jew. Please confirm this.
  • 5) I need your questions before the meeting.

Here is a link to my latest article:
“Israeli War Criminal Causes Commotion in UK”
http://www.kawther.info/wpr/2009/02/02/israeli-war-criminal-causes-commotion-in-uk
http://www.info-palestine.net/article.php3?id_article=6017

http://www.kawther.info/wpr/terrorists/yair-naveh
http://www.kawther.info/wpr/terrorists/baruch-nagar
http://www.kawther.info/wpr/terrorists/avichai-mandelblit
http://www.kawther.info/ga2/v/Military

I mentioned Qatar in a past article:
http://www.kawther.info/wpr/2009/01/07/egyptian-ceasefire-proposal-or-a-conspiracy

Best Regards,

Kawther
http://www.kawther.info/wpr
http://www.kawther.info/ga2
http://www.kawther.info


—–Original Message—–
From: Clayton Swisher [….@aljazeera.net]
Sent: 02 February 2009 13:10
To: Kawther Salam
Subject: RE: information posted on your site

please call me asap at the number below

Clayton Swisher
Package Producer
Al Jazeera English
Doha, Qatar
…….mobile
________________________________________
From: Kawther Salam [kawther [dot] salam [at] gmail [dot] com]
Sent: Monday, February 02, 2009 6:18 AM
To: Clayton Swisher
Subject: RE: information posted on your site

Hello,
I hope that I will be able to send you my reply tomorrow night. I am very busy. Now it’s 4:17AM, I must go to bed.

Best regards,

________________________________
From: Clayton Swisher [.@aljazeera.net]
Sent: 31 January 2009 08:31
To: kawther [dot] salam [at] gmail [dot] com
Subject: FW: information posted on your site
Importance: High

This is my second attempt to reach you–please reply!

Clayton Swisher
Package Producer
Al Jazeera English
Doha, Qatar
…….mobile
________________________________
From:Clayton Swisher [.@aljazeera.net]
Sent: Friday, January 30, 2009 1:10 PM
To: kawther_salam [at] yahoo [dot] com
Cc: Stuart Pendleton
Subject: information posted on your site about IDF officers possibly involved in war crimes

Hello Kawther: By way of informal introduction, my name is Clayton Swisher, and I am a reporter with Al Jazeera English in Doha, Qatar.  I have cc’d our executive producer, Stuart Pendleton, in this email.

We are trying to establish whether or not to use the names you have posted.

I have some questions for you on the list you published.  A quick reply is appreciated.

1)  How did you obtain these names and would you be willing to discuss them on our broadcast?

2)  How did you obtain the pictures?

3) What threats have you received, if any, for publishing these names and photos?

4) Can you supply us with the names of any of your former journalist colleagues who are familiar with your work and who preferably are still active with Al Quds or Al Hayat Al Jadida?

5) Where can we locate (to arrange a studio, if necessary) and on what number can we reach you?

Thanks in advance,

Clayton Swisher
Package Producer
Al Jazeera English
Doha, Qatar

…….mobile

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