Posted on 04/16/2003 7:57:37 AM PDT by SJackson
ISRAELI RIGHTS GROUP: TWICE WE BROUGHT HIGH COURT PETITIONS TO ARREST PALESTINIAN TERRORIST MASTERMIND ABU ABBAS
Shurat HaDin - Israel Law Center applauds the American military forces which arrested Palestinian terrorist mastermind Mohammed Abu Abbas in Iraq yesterday. The PLO Executive Council member and head of the Palestine Liberation Front (PLF), is wanted in the United States for the hijacking of American citizens on the Achille Lauro cruise liner and the murder of Jewish New Yorker Leon Klinghoffer in 1985.
In recent weeks, as the likelihood of the American invasion of Iraq escalated, Shurat HaDin has written to Israeli Attorney General Elyakim Rubinstein demanding that he indict Abbas for the acts of terrorism which he more recently perpetrated against Israeli citizens. The Attorney General has not responded and no indictment has yet been brought.
In April 1996, under the government of Shimon Peres, Abbas was permitted by Israel to enter Gaza to attend a Palestinian National Council meeting. At the time, a petition was brought in the High Court of Justice demanding the arrest of the terrorist leader. The High Court rejected the petition and permitted Abbas to attend the conference. In May 1998, under the government of Benjamin Netanyahu, Abbas was again permitted to enter Gaza, this time purportedly, to reside there permanently. Again a petition was brought in the High Court of Justice demanding that Abbas be arrested. The High Court again rejected the petition and held that since Abbas now "supported" the Oslo Process he should be permitted to live in the Palestinian Authority (PA).
After residing in the PA for only a year, Abbas abruptly returned to Iraq. In an October 17, 2000, interview with Iraq's al-Rafideen magazine Abbas boasted of the terrorist network he had established in the PA during his stay. Abbas stated that inside the PLF "a decision was taken to carry out suicide operations" against Israel "for the sake of liberating Palestine." He vowed his group would again engage in terrorist attacks against Israel.
The PLF cell trained by Abbas was recently responsible for:
+The murder of Jerusalem teenager Yuri Gushchin in Ramallah in July 2001 +The bombing of a checkpoint junction in Haifa which injured five +The planting of a bomb near Um Safa +The attempted bombing of a military bus near Jenin +A conspiracy to carry out attacks at Ben Gurion Airport and in Tel-Aviv
The murder of Yuri Gushchin and the wounding of other Israel citizens in terror attacks could have been avoided had the High Court ordered the government to arrest Abbas back in 1996 or in 1998. Instead, he was allowed to enter Gaza and continue organizing terrorist attacks against Israel from within the PA.
According to Shurat Hadin Director Nitsana Darshan-Leitner who represented the High Court petitions urging Abbas' arrest: "For years we have been relentlessly demanding that Israel act to capture this terrorist mastermind and try him for his attacks against Jews. Instead he was repeatedly permitted to escape. The blood of Yuri Gushchin is on the hands of those Israeli law enforcement officials who continuously allowed Abbas to enter the PA to organize terrorist attacks against us. Twice the High Court gave Abbas the benefit of the doubt and permitted him to advance his terrorist campaigns from within the PA. We now call upon the United States to complete the task that Israel has proven itself incapable of - to prosecute Abbas and ensure that he spends the rest of his life in prison."
FOR MORE INFORMATION: (ISRAEL) 972-8-973-3336, (US) 212-591-0073,
or by email: nitsana@israellawcenter.org
No. Tie him to a wheelchair and push him into shark infested ocean.
Break his legs first so that he needs the wheelchair.
Its the myth that these terrorist orgs have legitimate 'political wings.' Israel until recently has accepted this and as a result has given a base from which terrorists could build attacks. Now they are on the right track which is to attack them where they are found.
Israeli Lawyer Seeks Arrest Warrant for Abu AbbasThe Clintonian accord won't help him with an arrest on those charges.Israeli activist lawyer Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, who heads the Israel Law Center, is urging Attorney General Elyakim Rubinstein to issue a warrant for the arrest of Iraq-based terrorist mastermind Mahmoud Abu Abbas. Abbas, a member of the PLO Executive Committee, heads the Palestine Liberation Front (PLF), which is responsible for the murder and wounding of numerous Israelis and Americans in PLF attacks since the mid-1970s. The anticipated American incursion into Iraq will allow United States military forces to capture the terrorist leader, who can then be extradited to Israel for trial.
Attorney Darshan-Leitner claims that Israel has clear proof of Abbas’ responsibility for the recent murder of Jerusalem teenager, Yuri Gustchin and a Haifa terrorist bombing that seriously wounded five civilians. Confessions from PLF members captured in November 2001 implicate Abbas in numerous other terrorist attacks. And in 1979, Abbas’ terrorist group carried out an attack on an Israeli apartment building in Naharia that killed a family of four, including two young children. In 1985, Abbas perpetrated the infamous hijacking of the Italian cruise liner Achille Lauro, during which the PLF took four hundred of the ship’s passengers hostage and murdered an elderly wheelchair-bound American, Leon Klinghoeffer. Although allowed to relocate to Gaza in May 1998 by the Netanyahu government, by October 2000 Abbas had reappeared in Iraq and announced that he had trained a terrorist cell in Gaza for attacks on Israelis.
“The Attorney General’s office has repeatedly refused to arrest Abbas and to prosecute him for his murder of Jews around the world,” stated Darshan-Leitner, “Each time the PLF leader has been given another chance by the government to prove himself, he succeeds in killing more Israeli civilians. It’s time for the Attorney General to finally issue an arrest warrant against Abbas for the murder of Yuri Gustchin and make his capture a national priority.”
In view of more recent events, break his legs, put him in a wheelchair, and ... force him off a ledge a thousand feet above the sidewalk.
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