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PLO Demands Release of Abu Abbas, Achille Lauro Hijacker
The Jerusalem Post ^ | April 16, 2003

Posted on 04/16/2003 6:55:23 AM PDT by Piranha

The man known as Abu Abbas, whose name actually is Mohammed Abbas, was arrested by US commandos during a raid Monday night on the southern outskirts of Baghdad. He had been convicted in absentia in an Italian court for the Achille Lauro hijacking and sentenced to life in prison in 1986, but never served any time.

During the hijacking, American Leon Klinghoffer, 69, was shot in his wheelchair and tossed overboard. The hijacking ended with the militants surrendering to Egyptian authorities. "Justice will be served," said Marine Maj. Brad Bartelt, a spokesman for US Central Command in Qatar.

However, the Palestinian Authority on Wednesday demanded Abbas' release, saying his arrest violated a 1995 interim agreement between Israel and the Palestinians that was also signed by then-US President Bill Clinton. According to the deal, no PLO officials were to be arrested for violent acts committed before the 1993 Israel-PLO pact of mutual recognition, said a Palestinian Cabinet minister, Saeb Erekat, who noted that Abbas has visited Palestinian areas repeatedly since 1996 with Israeli and US acquiescence.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; Israel; News/Current Events; War on Terror
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The Oslo Agreements are coming back to hurt us here in America in unimagined ways. Can it be that under these agreements, the US has lost the right to prosecute murderers of our own citizens?
1 posted on 04/16/2003 6:55:24 AM PDT by Piranha
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To: Piranha
Did we sign the Oslo agreement?

Are we Israel?

I don't think so.

This guy killed an American. Many are opining he must be tried in an "international court."

Screw that.
2 posted on 04/16/2003 6:57:31 AM PDT by Illbay
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To: Piranha
Not to worry. Despite Bubba's best efforts, this guy is still worm food. He's done plenty since Oslo.
3 posted on 04/16/2003 6:57:37 AM PDT by mewzilla
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To: Piranha
Well, figures Clintoon and Not-so-bright would agree to something like this. Time for Dubya to tear this one up and let the Palis know, your guys kill Americans, we come looking..and trust us, you don't want us to do that.
4 posted on 04/16/2003 6:58:10 AM PDT by Braak (The US Military, the real arms inspectors!)
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To: Piranha
The Oslo Accords is a pact between the PLO and Israel. it is not binding on other countries. The US and Russia signed as witnesses, but it is not a treaty binding on the US
5 posted on 04/16/2003 6:58:59 AM PDT by SauronOfMordor (Heavily armed, easily bored, and off my medication)
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To: Piranha
Lee Rogers stated on KSFO this morning that we weren't signatories to the Oslo Accords, and that the PLO has completely ignored them for years.

Can anyone confirm that we were not signatories?
6 posted on 04/16/2003 6:59:02 AM PDT by Riley
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To: Illbay
Did we sign the Oslo agreement?

Are we Israel?

I don't think so.

This guy killed an American. Many are opining he must be tried in an "international court."

Screw that.


Amen!

7 posted on 04/16/2003 6:59:14 AM PDT by netmilsmom (Bush/Rice 2004- pray & fast for our troops this lent)
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To: Riley
Request overtaken by events- I withdraw the question.
8 posted on 04/16/2003 6:59:40 AM PDT by Riley
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To: Braak
That's the right attitude. Its the only one they respect (and fear).
9 posted on 04/16/2003 7:00:06 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks
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To: Piranha
Click here for a small sample of just what Abbas has been up to...
10 posted on 04/16/2003 7:00:14 AM PDT by mewzilla
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To: Piranha
The PLO isn't in a position to demand anything. Guess they haven't been watching the news.
11 posted on 04/16/2003 7:00:31 AM PDT by nina0113
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To: Piranha
Since Oslo is dead, so too are all the suicidal Israeli tenets of that agreement.
12 posted on 04/16/2003 7:00:40 AM PDT by OldFriend (without the brave, there would be no land of the free)
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To: Piranha
Here is more detail from the NY Times (link is http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/international/internationl-iraq-abbas-palestinians.html):

Palestinian Authority Demands U.S. Free Abu Abbas
By REUTERS


GAZA — The Palestinian Authority demanded on Wednesday the United States free Palestinian guerrilla leader Abu Abbas, saying his detention by U.S. forces in Iraq violated a Middle East peace deal signed by Washington.

Abbas, also known as Mohammed Abbas, masterminded the 1985 hijacking of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro in the Mediterranean in which a disabled elderly American Jewish passenger, Leon Klinghoffer, was shot and thrown overboard.

``We demand the United States release Abu Abbas. It has no right to imprison him,'' Palestinian cabinet minister Saeb Erekat told Reuters.

Abbas was sentenced in absentia in Italy to life in prison for planning the hijacking. Although he was the target of a manhunt after the incident, Washington dropped a warrant for his arrest several years ago.

``The Palestinian-Israeli interim agreement signed on September 28, 1995 stated that members of the Palestine Liberation Organization must not be detained or tried for matters they committed before the Oslo peace accord of September 13, 1993,'' Erekat said.

``This interim agreement was signed on the U.S. side by President Clinton and his secretary of state, Warren Christopher,'' Erekat added.

Dore Gold, an Israeli government spokesman, welcomed Abbas's arrest on Monday by U.S. special forces.

``It's been 18 years since Abu Abbas and his organization hijacked the Achille Lauro, and now after 18 years, justice has been done at last,'' Gold said.

In 1998, the Israeli Supreme Court, citing the interim peace deals with the Palestinians, declared Abbas immune from prosecution in Israel over the ship's hijacking.

``The late Leon Klinghoffer was murdered by despicable people and his blood cries out, but (Abbas) cannot be brought to trial -- in any event, not in Israel,'' the court said at the time.

Abbas was allowed to return to the Gaza Strip by an Israeli Security Committee which concluded he had renounced violence.

BAGHDAD RAID

In Qatar, U.S. Central Command said his capture ``removes a portion of the terror network supported by Iraq and represents yet another victory in the global war on terrorism.''

Asked what would happen to Abbas, Central Command spokesman Major Brad Bartelt said: ``Justice will be served.'' He gave no further details.

But Bassam Darweesh, a spokesman for Abbas's Palestinian Liberation Front (PLF) in Gaza, told Reuters: ``It seems that the United States has rushed to answer Israeli demands to pursue the leaders of Palestinian political factions outside Palestine.''

Darweesh called his detention in a raid in southern Baghdad ``an attempt to harm the Palestinian struggle and to put on trial an important chapter in the history of our people.''

In a Reuters interview in Gaza in 1998, Abbas called Klinghoffer's killing a mistake and said PLF guerrillas had never planned to hijack the ship.

Their mission, Abbas said, had been to disembark as tourists in the Israeli port of Ashdod, link up with two guerrillas from the West Bank and attack a naval base.
13 posted on 04/16/2003 7:00:44 AM PDT by Piranha
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To: Riley
The Oslo accord is between Israel and the PLO. Period.

What the PLO is trying to do is say that we are "surrogates" of Israel.

As if!
14 posted on 04/16/2003 7:00:51 AM PDT by Illbay
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To: Piranha
I hope we tell them to pound sand.
16 posted on 04/16/2003 7:01:42 AM PDT by jjm2111
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To: Piranha
Dear Palestinians No Homeland Having Losers

How about a nice warm cup of shut the h#@% up ??

17 posted on 04/16/2003 7:02:17 AM PDT by BSunday
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To: nina0113
To my mind, it's almost like some Saturday Night Live comedy skit with Chevy Chase. Just start off the bit with "The PLO demands ..." Hey, it's funny already!
18 posted on 04/16/2003 7:02:51 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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To: Piranha
Latest from Greg Palcot of Fox News this morning in Jordan:

1. Abbas harbored by the Iraqi government for "many, many years."

2. Marines also uncovered a PLF camp south of Baghdad, about 25 acres in size, where SUICIDE BOMBERS were trained.

3. SpecOps in Baghdad mayor's house looking for documents and Fedayeen. They found good intel, but no people.
19 posted on 04/16/2003 7:03:28 AM PDT by Illbay
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