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Abul Abbas: 18 year of freedom after the Achille Lauro hijacking
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| April 15, 203
| Larry Mcshane
Posted on 04/15/2003 4:55:47 PM PDT by hotpotato
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:09:35 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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Sitting in his Gaza Strip office 13 years after the slaying of American tourist Leon Klinghoffer, former PLO guerrilla chieftain Abul Abbas offered a short laugh and a hard look.
''You never forget, all of you, do you?'' he asked a journalist.
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: abbas; abul; abulabbas; achillelauro; hijack; hijacking; iraq; leonklinghoffer; plo; terrorist
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posted on
04/15/2003 4:55:47 PM PDT
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hotpotato
To: hotpotato
A man lile this is liable to commit suicide.
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posted on
04/15/2003 4:57:52 PM PDT
by
AppyPappy
(If You're Not A Part Of The Solution, There's Good Money To Made In Prolonging The Problem.)
To: hotpotato
hmm we sure seem to be finding alot of PLF in Iraq.... yet another blow to the democrats and peaceniks
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04/15/2003 4:58:24 PM PDT
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To: AppyPappy
Maybe someone will give him a necktie in celebration of his incarceration :-)
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posted on
04/15/2003 5:00:20 PM PDT
by
hotpotato
To: AppyPappy
Can we take the 18 years off his 20 years of appeals before we inject him?
To: SubMareener
He looked really sad in the pics I saw. He's liable to hang himself with a belt.
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posted on
04/15/2003 5:02:01 PM PDT
by
AppyPappy
(If You're Not A Part Of The Solution, There's Good Money To Made In Prolonging The Problem.)
To: hotpotato
Abbas
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posted on
04/15/2003 5:10:14 PM PDT
by
hotpotato
To: hotpotato
Nabbed in Iraq?
But the liberals have been telling us that Iraq has nothing to do with terrorism?
I'm so confused.
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posted on
04/15/2003 5:13:21 PM PDT
by
SJSAMPLE
To: AppyPappy
What picture was that?
Sitting in his Gaza Strip office 13 years after the slaying of American tourist Leon Klinghoffer, former PLO guerrilla chieftain Abul Abbas offered a short laugh and a hard look.
''You never forget, all of you, do you?'' he asked a journalist.
Doesn't sound too remorseful, to me. Except for maybe getting caught. Maybe he thinks he'll end up in a Yemen jail and will soon be out and free again.
To: hotpotato
Israel first allowed Abbas back into Gaza in 1996 to vote on a landmark resolution by the Palestinian parliament-in-exile renouncing calls for Israel's destruction. He made three more visits in the next two years. I really don't get this part. If he was hunted by the US and convicted by an Italian court, how was it that he could travel around so easily (assuming he was convicted before 1996). Especially considering he was bent on destroying Israel. I just don't get it.
To: hotpotato
I really don't get this part. If he was hunted by the US and convicted by an Italian court, how was it that he could travel around so easily (assuming he was convicted before 1996). Well, I missed it the first time. Sure enough, he was convicted in an Italian court in 1986.
To: hotpotato
Sometimes he's better left untouched, so he can be watched, and so we can see who he meets with. That time has now ended.
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posted on
04/15/2003 5:19:19 PM PDT
by
July 4th
To: July 4th
Or maybe he was untouchable until now. Maybe we were waiting for him to commit suicide like Abu Nidal :-)
To: hotpotato
I wish I had hope that our government had the intestinal fortitude to hang him.
To: hotpotato
Maybe someone will give him a necktie in celebration of his incarceration :-)
What was that they did in South Africa where they put a tire around
the guy's neck and set fire to it. Circling? Necklacing?
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posted on
04/15/2003 5:34:32 PM PDT
by
gcruse
(If they truly are God's laws, he can enforce them himself.)
To: hotpotato
The Clinton Administration was bent on appeasement. And the whole Clinton foreign affairs team was totally incompetent. They just wanted everybody to "just get along". The CIA had been ham-strung years before (under Carter) and under Clinton the agency had nothing to do but sit around and play checkers. Clinton wanted nothing to do with apprehending terrorists, because he was busy trying to shore up Arafat, the concept being that that was going to bring peace to the Middle East.
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posted on
04/15/2003 5:35:07 PM PDT
by
45Auto
(Big holes are (almost) always better.)
To: hotpotato
"
The American warrants were dropped after his conviction in Italy".
"But in January, he was forced to cut short a working trip to Cairo because the United States was looking for him."
So, the questions is, are there now new, outstanding warrants for his arrest? And since he was taken by military units while operating in a combat theater, can the bastard be tried under military/wartime laws? Or will the US bring the scumbag into the country, set him up with expensive defense attorneys and drag his case/appeals/etc. on for about 20 years? Summary justice in the field seems like it would have been the better choice. We are just too damn civilized in our dealing with terrorists. Better to adopt the Attila The Hun school of warfare.
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posted on
04/15/2003 5:44:21 PM PDT
by
45Auto
(Big holes are (almost) always better.)
To: 45Auto
No question about it that Clinton and his clan were good at looking the other way. Terrorists have counted on that. Last week is the *first* time since 9/11 I've felt *truly* like we just might come out of this in spite of what Clinton (whom I voted for TWICE... and learned from) did to us. From the very beginning of 9/11 I blamed Clinton most, fair or not.
To: hotpotato
The Attila the Hun School of Diplomacy:
"The Huns had a reputation for cruelty that was not undeserved. In the 440's one of Attila's attacks against the East in the Balkans aimed at a city in the Danubian provinces, Naissus (441-42). It was located about a hundred miles south of the Danube on the Nischava River. The Huns so devastated the place that when Roman ambassadors passed through to meet with Attila several years later, they had to camp outside the city on the river. The river banks were covered with human bones, and the stench of death was so great that no one could enter the city."
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posted on
04/15/2003 5:50:41 PM PDT
by
45Auto
(Big holes are (almost) always better.)
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