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.
Yeah, killing Jews, esp. Jewish schoolgirls, rates at least parole, if not a kingly pardon.
And these are “moderate Arabs”?
Yes, and these are the moderate arabs.
“Yes, and these are the moderate arabs.”
And their “humanitarian” facilitators.
I can't tell the difference anymore. Kill'em all.
“Arab Human Rights Organization” ... redundancy on display
Hand him over to Israel and let them deal with him.....
They sound like American Democrats, do they not?
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.
The logical extension of Olmert’s stupidity. And of the Israeli people's, who fail to throw Olmert out of office.
That’s the sad truth!
Just another “Olmert-Terror-release (reward for the murder of young Israelis)”
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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.
That makes Abdullah a better Jew than many Israelis.
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