Sometimes, walls can talk. A Kurdish activist imprisoned in Syria told Israel Radio that while there he saw words carved into the wall by legendary Israeli spy Eli Cohen. The Kurdish activist from Iraq was imprisoned in Syria in 1971. He said he saw the following words carved on the prison wall in Arabic: "I am not sorry for my actions. If I am sorry for anything it is for what I did not accomplish. Sometimes a man fails due to friends who failed him," Cohen wrote, according to the activist. Eli Cohen was a Mossad agent in Damascus under the alias of Kamal Amin Ta'abet from 1962 till 1965, when his identity was revealed and he was executed. Cohen was an incredible asset to Israel and provided invaluable political and defense information on Syria. He was hanged in Damascus as the cameras rolled. The Iraqi Kurd's amazing story emerged on Sunday, after Israel Radio reporter, Carmela Menashe, contacted Cohen's wife, Nadia, and had the activist speak with her. "I am shaking, I am overwhelmed," she said, "This is the first time I've heard of this. I heard in the past that those were his last words, but I never knew he carved them. Even today, 46 years later, this is still a moving and difficult story for me." Nadia Cohen also asked the activist if he knew where her husband had been buried. Cohen has waged a decades-long campaign to bring home her husband's remains for a proper burial. Syria has so far refused her request. In 2008, a top Syrian official told the al-Arabiya network that Cohen had been buried three times and that no one in Syria knew the whereabouts of his remains.
Israeli spy delivers message from beyond the grave
Kurdish activist imprisoned in Syria in 1971 tells Israel Radio that he saw a message from the late Israeli spy Eli Cohen in his cell • Cohen's wife: I am shaking, I am overwhelmed.
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