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Wednesday, March 15, 2006Jericho and Justice / Kidnapping and Chaos Let's put this widely reported story in context: On 17 October 2001 members of the Popular Front For The Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) gunned down Israeli Tourism Minister Rehevam Ze'evi in a Jerusalem hotel. Five Palestinian terrorists were eventually charged in the murder. In April, 2002 Israel was besieging the Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in his Muqata compound in Ramallah after still more terrorist attacks the previous month. The United States brokered an agreement between Arafat and the government of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to end the siege. The IDF...

Mar. 15, 2006 3:08 | Updated Mar. 15, 2006 18:01 Olmert: Israel will try 'Jericho Six' By HERB KEINON AND JPOST.COM STAFF Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Wednesday that the six Palestinians arrested by the IDF in its Tuesday raid on a Jericho prison will be charged and tried by Israel. Five of the prisoners, including Popular Front of the Liberation of Palestinian head Ahmed Sa'adat, were found guilty in a Palestinian court of the 2001 assassination of Tourism Minister Rehavam Zeevi, and the sixth, Fuad Shubaki, was found guilty of smuggling weapons into the territories via the Karine...

Israel forces have surrounded a jail in Jericho in the West Bank that holds a senior Palestinian prisoner. Ahmed Saadat, the leader of the leftist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, is held in Jericho under the supervision of US and UK guards. Witnesses in Jericho told the BBC that they had heard gunfire and explosions close to the prison. Recent reports say the Palestinian Authority has been considering freeing Mr Saadat who has been held since 2002.