"Captain George"
"Captain George"Yossi Zeliger/Flash 90

The Supreme Court has thrown out a suit by a Lebanese terrorist leader, who incredibly enough was seeking damages from the Jewish state for his claims of torture while in Israeli custody.

The court on Thursday ruled that the nearly 15-year-old attempt by Mustafa Dirani to claim $1.3 million in compensation was not actionable in Israeli courts. This was because after his release in a January 2004 prisoner swap, he "returned to the ranks of a terrorist organization, the goal of which was to act against the state (of Israel) and even to bring about its destruction."

Dirani was a terrorist in the Shi'ite organization Amal, and took part in the abduction of IAF pilot Lt. Col. Ron Arad in 1986 - Arad is still missing. The terrorist was apprehended by Israeli commandos from southern Lebanon in 1994.

It was believed that Dirani had information on Arad, after it was assessed that Dirani handed him over to the Lebanese-based terrorist organization Hezbollah.

After being released in 2004, Dirani promptly returned to his terrorist activities and declared loyalty to Hezbollah.

Thursday's court ruling, which was obtained by AFP, specified this point, saying that after his release and return to Lebanon in 2004 Dirani announced the merger of his group "The Believing Resistance" with Hezbollah.

The ruling said that as an enemy alien, he had no recourse to Israeli courts, and threw out Dirani's wild claim that his Israeli interrogator, known as "Captain George," sodomized him with a police baton during questioning.

"It is amazing to me that Dirani (imagines he) can be allowed, while fighting the state (of Israel) and wishing for its destruction, to use its
institutions for his own needs," Chief Justice Asher Grunis wrote.

AFP contributed to this report.