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Thinking outside the box -- it's not always a good thing
 Jailed Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, bomb maker eyes PA election runAbdallah Barghouti, a Hamas bomb maker who is serving 67 life sentences for his role in the killing of dozens of Israelis, is planning to run in the next Paleostinian parliamentary election, which is slated for May 2012, sources close to Hamas said Tuesday. Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... recently announced that the presidential and parliamentary elections would be held next May, although representatives of the two parties said they were skeptical about the prospects of holding the vote on time. Mahmoud Zahar, a top Hamas official in the Gazoo Strip, said Tuesday he expected his movement to score a landslide victory both in the West Bank and Gazoo Strip during the planned elections. In a letter to the Hamas leadership, the 39- year-old Barghouti expressed his desire to present his candidacy for membership of the Paleostinian Legislative Council, the sources said. Barghouti has also signaled his desire to contest elections held inside prison by Hamas inmates, the sources added. In his letter, Barghouti claimed that he had refrained from engaging in political activities over the past nine years. But now, he explained, I personally feel the need to participate in elections, whether those held inside prison or outside. Barghouti appealed to the Hamas leadership to help him fulfill his wish of contesting the elections. Barghouti, who is from the Ramallah area, was tossed in the slammer by the IDF in 2003. A year later, the IDF military court sentenced him to 67 terms for preparing bombs used in a number of terrorist attacks in which 66 Israelis were killed and many others injured. Barghouti was involved in the 2001 Jerusalem Sbarro restaurant suicide kaboom in which 15 non-combatants were killed and 130 maimed. He was also involved in the terrorist attack on the pedestrian mall on Jerusalems Ben Yehuda Street the same year. A year later, he prepared the bombs that were used in the terrorist attack in the Sheffield Club in Rishon Lezion in which 15 non-combatants were killed and 59 maimed. Barghouti was also found guilty of involvement in the 2002 Moment Café suicide kaboom, in which 11 non-combatants were killed and 65 maimed, the Hebrew University attack that killed nine civilians and maimed 81, and the terrorist attack on a bus on Allenby Street in Tel Aviv the same year that killed six civilians and maimed 84. Posted by: trailing wife 2011-12-15 |
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