Posted on 02/19/2004 11:03:03 AM PST by yonif
The Shomron military court on Thursday sentenced two Palestinian terrorists, Amjad Abidi, 36, and Sami Jaradat, 36, for sending sending the female suicide bomber to attack Haifa's Maxim restaurant last October.
Twenty-one people were murdered, and more than fifty wounded in the suicide bombing.
Abidi was sentenced to 23 consecutive life sentences and a further fifty years in prison.
Jaradat was handed 21 life sentnces and fifty years.
In their verdict, the Judges wrote that the two "are mass murderers responsible for the deaths of many people. Their principal aim was to murder Jews."
"These abominable murderers, soldiers in the service of the angel of death, recruited Hanadi Jaradat, a youngster who was brainwashed to hate, dripping venom, and filled with murderous thoughts. What is the punishment for cowards who hide behind video cameras – and send others to kill and be killed," the Judges wrote in their verdict.
Abidi and Jaradat did not show remorse for their actions.
The Palestinians, members of Islamic Jihad, recruited female suicide bomber Hanadi Jaradat, provided her with the explosives belt which weighed 8kg and was packed with metal shards, and drove her to the restaurant
At a stormy court session Thursday, a woman who had worked in the restaurant's kitchen, railed at the terrorists, "What mother gave birth to such people as you, who are responsible for the murder of innocent children and women. You may have not been with the bomb, but you are the murderers."
Abidi is also accused of sending additional suicide bombers to carry out attacks near the villages of Yabed and Sdei Trumot, in which two more Israelis were killed. In addition, Abidi is accused of involvement in four other instances, which were thwarted.
"These abominable murderers, soldiers in the service of the angel of death, recruited Hanadi Jaradat, a youngster who was brainwashed to hate, dripping venom, and filled with murderous thoughts. What is the punishment for cowards who hide behind video cameras – and send others to kill and be killed," the Judges wrote in their verdict.
Until Israel frees them in trade for hostages or soldiers' bodies...
Jaradat was handed 21 life sentnces and fifty years.
They will be out after the next hostage exchange.
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