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PFLP chief won't face trial in killing |
2006-04-27 |
Israel's attorney general has said that he did not find enough evidence to put on trial a senior Palestinian militant accused of masterminding the assassination of an Israeli cabinet minister. Ahmed Saadat, head of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine(PFLP), was snatched from a prison in the West Bank town of Jericho during an Israeli military operation last month. Israel also hauled off four of Saadat's alleged accomplices in the 2001 assassination of cabinet minister Rehavam Zeevi. These four suspects will be tried in an Israeli court in Jerusalem, the Israeli justice ministry said in a statement. Saadat will however be indicted and tried in a military court for other security offenses not related to Zeevi's assassination, the statement said. Ehud Olmert, the acting Israeli prime minister, has vowed to see Saadat tried. |
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