[Dr. Aaron Lerner - IMRA: Cynics wonder if the "secret evidence" was a
piece of paper with the following:

"Trust us - its all OK."]

Israeli archeologists ordered out of court hearing
Etgar Lefkovits , THE JERUSALEM POST Sep. 21, 2007
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A group of Israeli archeologists and public officials who petitioned the
High Court of Justice against Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and the Antiquities
Authority over ongoing Wakf infrastructure work on the Temple Mount were
ordered out of the courtroom during a hearing Thursday, an archeologist
said.
The members of the nonpartisan Committee Against the Destruction of
Antiquities on the Temple Mount had to leave the courtroom while the
state-run archeological body presented "secret" evidence to the court.

"It is more than clear that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has instructed the
Antiquities Authority to cooperate with the Wakf and conceal the damage to
antiquities being done during the infrastructure work at the site," said
Hebrew University archeologist and leading Temple Mount expert Dr. Eilat
Mazar.

The two-month old dig on the Temple Mount is being carried out by Islamic
officials with Israeli approval as part of infrastructure work to repair
faulty electrical lines on the ancient compound.

The independent Israeli archeologists say that the dig, which is being
carried out with tractors and other heavy construction machinery, has
created a 400-meter long and 1.5 meter deep trench, destroying several
layers of ancient remains on the Temple Mount