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Jordan urged to free killer of Israeli schoolgirls
AFP ^ | July 21, 2008 | Staff

Posted on 07/20/2008 9:01:20 PM PDT by forkinsocket

AMMAN: King Abdullah II was urged on Sunday to pardon a Jordanian soldier who is serving a life sentence for killing seven Israeli schoolgirls in 1997.

"After around 12 years in prison, Ahmad Dakamseh deserves your majesty's special pardon," a group of 70 Islamists, unionists, lawyers, human rights activists and former officials said in a signed letter to the king.

In March 1997, Dakamseh fired an automatic weapon at a group of Israeli schoolgirls as they visited Baqura, a scenic peninsula on the Jordan River near the Israeli border, killing seven and wounded five others as well as a teacher.

"Following the recent release of Arab prisoners, we hope to see Dakamseh free again," they said, referring to Israel's prisoner swap with Lebanon's Hizbullah last week.

The signatories Islamic Action Front secretary general Zaki Bani Rsheid, former prime minister and intelligence department director Ahmad Obeidat, Jordan Bar Association head Saleh Armouti, and Hani Dahleh, president of the Arab Human Rights Organization.

"The current political stage requires a policy that would make people happy and ease their socio-economic and political pressures. Pardoning Dakamseh will have a great effect on people," the letter said.


TOPICS: Israel; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ahmaddakamseh; israel; jordan; mohammedanism; samirkuntar
Israel doesn't respect itself, so no one respects Israel.
1 posted on 07/20/2008 9:01:21 PM PDT by forkinsocket
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To: forkinsocket
King Abdullah was having lunch in Eureka Ca this week with one of his sons. They were touring the west coast on their Harleys
2 posted on 07/20/2008 9:33:52 PM PDT by tubebender (Why does a round pizza come in a square box?)
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To: forkinsocket

Yeah, killing Jews, esp. Jewish schoolgirls, rates at least parole, if not a kingly pardon.

And these are “moderate Arabs”?


3 posted on 07/20/2008 9:34:20 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper; forkinsocket
And these are “moderate Arabs”?

Yes, and these are the moderate arabs.

4 posted on 07/20/2008 9:41:22 PM PDT by marron
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To: marron

“Yes, and these are the moderate arabs.”

And their “humanitarian” facilitators.


5 posted on 07/20/2008 9:46:52 PM PDT by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: forkinsocket
a group of 70 Islamists, unionists, lawyers, human rights activists and former officials

I can't tell the difference anymore. Kill'em all.

6 posted on 07/20/2008 9:57:26 PM PDT by LoneRangerMassachusetts
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To: forkinsocket

“Arab Human Rights Organization” ... redundancy on display


7 posted on 07/20/2008 10:07:46 PM PDT by sofaman (Moses dragged us through the desert for 40 years to bring us to the one place in the ME with no oil.)
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To: forkinsocket

Hand him over to Israel and let them deal with him.....


8 posted on 07/20/2008 10:59:19 PM PDT by CORedneck
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To: forkinsocket

They sound like American Democrats, do they not?


9 posted on 07/20/2008 11:00:26 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Keep the change.)
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To: Jeff Chandler

They sound like typical murdering Muslims. They are ALL out to get non-Muslims.

The sooner we wise up and realize we are in war to the death with a worldwide cult of killers the better off we will be.


10 posted on 07/20/2008 11:03:53 PM PDT by ZULU (Non nobis, non nobis Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam. God, guts and guns made America great.)
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To: forkinsocket
...a group of 70 Islamists, unionists, lawyers, human rights activists and former officials

A real wholesome crowd.
11 posted on 07/20/2008 11:17:40 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
Yeah, killing Jews, esp. Jewish schoolgirls, rates at least parole, if not a kingly pardon.

If the Israelis release the killer of Israeli children, why shouldn't Arabs release killers of Israeli children?

The logical extension of Olmert’s stupidity. And of the Israeli people's, who fail to throw Olmert out of office.

12 posted on 07/21/2008 12:01:46 AM PDT by Cheburashka (Democratic Underground: Ever wonder where all those who took the brown acid at Woodstock wound up?)
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To: forkinsocket

That’s the sad truth!


13 posted on 07/21/2008 4:32:50 AM PDT by Convert from ECUSA ("When I was a boy, America was a better place" - Dennis Prager)
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To: Cheburashka

Just another “Olmert-Terror-release (reward for the murder of young Israelis)”


14 posted on 07/21/2008 5:13:22 AM PDT by Diogenesis (Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum)
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15 posted on 07/21/2008 7:10:32 AM PDT by SJackson (I was introduced to dog meat (tough), snake meat (tougher), roasted grasshopper (crunchy), BH Obama)
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To: forkinsocket
Israel doesn't respect itself, so no one respects Israel.

That may be true to a certain extent, but I tend to doubt that Abdullah will release this monster, because he doesn't want to jeopardize his "normalized" relations with Israel, especially with the possibility of Israel going to war in the near future against other Muslim states.

16 posted on 07/21/2008 8:21:40 AM PDT by justiceseeker93
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To: justiceseeker93

That makes Abdullah a better Jew than many Israelis.


17 posted on 07/21/2008 10:57:31 AM PDT by forkinsocket
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