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Israeli bulldozer begins breaking into Jericho prison wall
DEBKA:Israeli bulldozer begins breaking into Jericho prison wall after assassins of Israeli minister Rehavam Zeevi refuse calls to surrender. One Palestinian policemen killed, 8 injured in gun battle with Israeli raiders March 14, 2006, 12:37 PM (GMT+02:00) Israeli military and police special forces launched the raid Tuesday, March 14, to prevent the assassins escape after the American and British monitors guarding the prison under an international agreement signed by the Palestinian Authority abandoned their watch. The men they were guarding were Ahmed Sadaat, head of the rejectionist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, PFLP who ordered the murder of the Israeli tourism minister in 2001and five terrorists. In negotiations between IDF and Palestinian officers, 50 of the 200 Palestinian inmates, police and warders in the prison compound, were allowed to leave. Palestinian crowds are trying to rush the prison and rescue the terrorists. DEBKAfiles Palestinian sources report that Mahmoud Abbas ordered Sadaat freed before he set out for Europe after nominating him for a senior ministerial post in the next Palestinian government. The Sadaat appointment was the deciding point that broke the standoff in Hamas-Fatah coalition negotiations A high alert has been declared in all Israel's high-security jails holding Palestinian terrorists Posted by: 3dc 2006-03-14 |
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