Israelis seal off Jericho as court frees radical leader By Phil Reeves in Jerusalem 04 June 2002 Israel's army sealed off Jericho yesterday after a Palestinian court ordered the immediate release of a radical faction leader jailed in the West Bank town by Yasser Arafat's security force under the supervision of British and American wardens. The ruling that Ahmed Saadat, head of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), should be freed infuriated Israel, which accuses him of masterminding the assassination of its far-right-wing tourism minister. The jailing of the PFLP leader, and five others, was the centre-piece...
