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Palestinians say Clinton signed amnesty for Abbas
World Tribune ^
| 3/18/03
Posted on 04/18/2003 6:40:37 PM PDT by truthandlife
The Palestinian Authority has launched a campaign for the release of a Palestinian terrorist captured in Iraq.
PA Local Authorities Minister Saeb Erekat said the arrest of Abul Abbas, head of the Palestine Liberation Front, violates the 1995 accord with Israel that granted amnesty for all Palestinian insurgents. Erekat said the agreement was also signed by then-President Bill Clinton.
"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."
The PA said the U.S. capture of Mohammed Abul Abbas was illegal and that he had never been sought by American authorities, Middle East Newsline reported. Officials asserted that the State Department had determined in the late 1990s that it did not have grounds to seek Abul Abbas's extradition from the Gaza Strip. PA officials said Israel had not sought the extradition of Abul Abbas during his stay in the Gaza Strip in 1998. They cited a determination by Attorney General Elyakim Rubinstein that Abbas does not pose a threat to Israeli security.
The United States has denied that Abul Abbas was granted immunity from prosecution. U.S. officials did say that the State Department was examining options regarding the PLF leader. So far, they said, the State Department has contacted Italy, which issued a warrant for his arrest.
"We are currently looking at a variety of options to ensure he's brought to justice," State Department deputy spokesman Philip Reeker said. "The United States believes that all terrorists should be brought to justice for their crimes, so obviously, this will be a matter of discussion with the government of Italy."
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To: Nick Danger
Our troops have already uncovered terrorist training camps in Iraq that were (a) associated with Abbas' Palestine Liberation Front, and (b) recently used. All we need is one document or one witness linking him to those places, and he is toast. Nothing signed in 1995 covers activities since.
When I heard of his capture my first thought was of the training camp and of the suicide vests. Immediately I wondered if he weren't the head honcho running the camp and making sure suicide bombers got state of the art vests.
So the next day, naturally, the BBC guy poses a question at Centcom based on the premise Abbas has not been involved in terrorism for many years. Brooks set him straight and said Abbas was, continued to be and remained to that moment a terrorist. Yes, they've got the goods on him, I'm sure.
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posted on
04/18/2003 10:25:25 PM PDT
by
cyncooper
(thousands of cheering Iraqis yelled, "America, America, America," and "Bush, Bush, Bush.")
To: FreedomCalls
Thanks for the link to the original agreement. It always seemed fishy to me that we made any promises in an agreement that was between the PLO and Israel, and of course we didn't.
What a surprise-The Palestinians are lying about the US being required to turn Abbas over.
What another surprise-the networks, being too lazy to fact-check anything said by an enemy of the US or Israel, reports the PLO claim as if it's true.
It really disgusts me that a person has to work so hard to get at the truth, when, especially in the Internet Age, it should be so freaking easy.
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To: FreedomCalls
Thanks for posting the text. As you and others contend, it is clear this document has no bearing on the US or Italy prosecuting this terrorist. PLO/PLA: be gone.
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posted on
04/19/2003 2:20:59 AM PDT
by
AFPhys
(((PRAYING for: President Bush & advisors, troops & families, Americans)))
To: AFPhys
BUMP
To: KeyLargo
Yet the Jews continue to vote in large numbers for the Democrats and in particular the Clintons.You have a working Jew detector at the voting polls? According to polls, the Jews voted for Bush in record numbers. Israel is more conservative than the United States. It is the one good thing from Oslo.
To: truthandlife
Gee, wonder how the Toons will explain this bit of help for their friends in their new books..?
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posted on
04/19/2003 5:03:21 AM PDT
by
mewzilla
To: cookcounty
Both true. PLO is an umbrella organization for terrorists, and has numerous "sub-groups." Abbas was delegate to PLO from PLF, like Daschle is a member of rhe Senate from South Dakota.
TFB. Abbas will be declared an "illegal combatant" and be shipped to Guantanamo after we've wrung him dry for all the information he has on Arafat and the PLO's connections with Al Qaeda.
Be Seeing You,
Chris
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posted on
04/19/2003 5:07:24 AM PDT
by
section9
(You will all be shot unless you download the Saddam screensaver...)
To: mewzilla
BUMP
To: American in Israel
Jerusalem Center for public affairs
http://www.jcpa.org/jl/vp446.htm ...A study of American Jewish voting habits over the past five decades suggests that some 55 to 60 percent of the Jewish electorate pick Democrats almost automatically, while 10 percent are similarly loyal Republicans....
...Nationwide, some 79 percent of American Jews voted for Gore, 19 percent for Bush, and 1 percent for Green Party candidate Ralph Nader, according to Voter News Service. Similarly, in 1996, Clinton reportedly took 78 percent of the Jewish vote, with Bob Dole garnering 16 percent for the Republicans, and 3 percent going to Ross Perot's Independent Party. Pennsylvania Jews voted in a similar pattern in 2000, with an estimated 77.6 percent voting Democratic, 18.6 percent Republican, and 3.8 percent supporting the Green Party. 13 ...
Chuck Morse - Boston Conservative Radio
http://www.chuckmorse.com/ http://www.chuckmorse.com/who_and_why_gore.html ...Mis-directed Democratic party loyalty by Jews, going back to the mis-conception that Franklin D. Roosevelt's entry into WWII had something to do with rescuing Jews from Hitler's Holocaust, trumps anything even remotely resembling self interest for Jews. Nothing seems to shake the lock-step Jewish support for the Democratic candidacy. Like sheep, they vote for Gore while Israel burns....
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posted on
04/19/2003 8:16:29 AM PDT
by
KeyLargo
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