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| Middle East |
| Getting ready to put Marwan on trial |
| 2002-04-23 |
| Israel took its first judicial step on Monday towards putting senior Fateh leader Marwan Barghouthi on trial for masterminding the killing of scores of Israelis in Palestinian suicide attacks. Israeli Attorney General Eliyakim Rubenstein set up a team of senior legal and security specialists to oversee the case of Barghouthi. Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has vowed to try Barghouthi, a top official of Palestinian President Yasser Arafat's Fateh faction, but Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erekat has said that would violate interim peace accords. Mohammad Rashid, a senior aide to Arafat, said: âIsrael knows full well that Marwan Barghouthi is a political leader and has no relation whatsoever to so-called terrorism. âHe had been directly engaged in the political process and the future of peace in the region.â He's done this using Tanzim. Calling Tanzim "political" is stretching the definition a bit, isn't it? |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |