DHAKA: US freed Jonathan Pollard, a US Navy intelligence officer convicted of spying for Israel, given life sentence in 1987 for spying for Israel.

The decision from the US Parole Commission to release Pollard, 61, came around the same time as a sharp disagreement between the US and the Israeli governments over a nuclear deal with Iran.

Officials from both countries, however, have strongly denied the release was in any way tied to that arrangement, or was intended as a concession to Israel.

BDST: 1556 HRS, NOV 20, 2015
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