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Home Front: WoT
US charges 2 Palestinian terrorists for 2010 murder of American tourist in Israel
2017-04-14
Erasing yet another Obama legacy.
[IsraelTimes] Arrest warrants issued for Paleostinian stabbers, currently tossed in the calaboose in Israel, who killed Kristine Luken and seriously maimed another.

Charges were filed in the United States Thursday against two Paleostinian Death Eaters tossed in the calaboose
Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try!
in Israel for the 2010 murder of a US citizen who was visiting the Jewish state.

Ayad Fatafta and Kifah Ghanimat
...the ringleader of a criminal gang in the Jerusalem-area city of Beit Shemesh that since 1997 had been involved in the usual murder, robbery, rape, etc. But in 2010 they turned serious, vowing to avenge the killing of Hamas Number 3 Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in Dubai, widely believed to have been done by Mossad. So they all ended up in jail, many not for the first time...
face federal charges for murdering Kristine Luken on December 18, 2010, in a stabbing attack in the Jerusalem Forest that also seriously maimed Kay Wilson, a UK citizen who lives in Israel.

The two terrorists, both residents of Bethlehem -- which is under the control of the Paleostinian Authority -- are currently serving prison sentences in Israel. Arrest warrants were issued against them in the US on Thursday.

In 2012, Fatafta was sentenced to life imprisonment plus 20 years, and Ghanimat was sentenced to two terms of life imprisonment and a further 60 years, for the lethal stabbing attack as well as another crime.

According to the US affidavit, Fatafta and Ghanimat stabbed Luken -- a 44-year-old US national -- to death while she was hiking near an archaeological site on a visit to Israel. She died at the scene.

According to the US Justice Department, "the maximum penalty for a person convicted of murdering a US national outside the US is a lifetime term of incarceration or death."

Wilson described her injuries in a Times of Israel blog post.

"I sustained 13 machete wounds in my lungs and diaphragm, six compound fractures in my ribs, 30 additional fractures, a dislocated shoulder, a crushed sternum and a broken shoulder blade," she wrote.

Upon receiving the news of the charges against the two terrorists, Wilson posted on Facebook that it was "the best news I’ve had in six years."

She described the emotional nature of the arrest warrants, writing, "I’m so relieved, I’m near to tears."
Posted by:trailing wife

#1  Given the reality of Israeli prisoner exchanges, it would be nice if Israel could hand these scumbags over today, so we can put them on Death Row chop chop.
Posted by: Zhang Fei   2017-04-14 00:16  

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