Here it is: 
Posted on 02/11/2002 9:29:23 AM PST by kattracks
Feb. 11
HEBRON (Reuters) - About 500 Palestinians stormed a jail in the West Bank city of Hebron Monday and freed 10 prisoners belonging to the Islamic militant groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad, witnesses said.
The prison guards were unable to hold back the crowd, who burst through the prison door, they said.
The incident was the latest in a series of attacks on prisons by Palestinians who say they fear Israeli air attacks on Palestinian security compounds will spread to adjacent prisons where dozens of militants have been jailed.
Hours earlier, Palestinian police said they had evacuated a prison in the Gaza Strip after hundreds of protesters, some throwing stones, demanded the release of prisoners following an Israeli air strike on a security compound.
Palestinian gunmen also stormed a prison in the West Bank city of Nablus last Thursday after an Israeli strike on a Palestinian Authority headquarters.
The prison stormings and the killing of three Palestinian prisoners by gunmen at a court last week in Jenin, in the northern West Bank, have raised the specter of growing anarchy and the breakdown of law and order in Palestinian-ruled areas.
Copyright 2002 Reuters News Service. All rights reserved.
(/sarcasm)
They probably offer them coffee and point to where the keys to the cells are.
Here it is:
Initial reports indicate hundreds of Palestinians have stormed a Hebron prison and released all inmates jailed there by the Palestinian Authority.
The raid was carried out a short time ago by Islamic activists in the Palestinian-controlled half of the divided West Bank city.
Hamas and Islamic Jihad operatives were reportedly amongst some 60 prisoners released in the action, Channel 2 reported.
How do these people ever expect businesses and industry to develop in their region if this is how stable the people are? Don't they understand that this is the type of behavior that keeps them poor, unemployed, ignorant, and dangerous?
Sigh. How can anybody take anything Arafat says or claims to do seriously anymore? Arafat's Palestinian Authority has what, about 30,000 troops, largely armed with assault rifles (the real kind, not the Brady Bill kind). Yet the average prison stay for an "Islamic militant" in PA custody seems to be about three days, after which an "uncontrollable mob" reliably "bursts" into the "prison" to "free" him—and that only happens in the rare case when the "guards" don't simply drop the charade and release the "prisoner" themselves. Obviously those 30,000 machine-gunners aren't guarding prisons, quelling riots or busting up mobs, so what exactly are we supposed to believe they are doing each day?
At the time I thought he was being overly strident.
No more.
But I thought that Islam was a religion of peace??????. . .
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