Posted on 04/15/2008 12:17:44 AM PDT by Mount Athos
The terrorist cell that planned to poison an Israeli restaurant this month was led by jihadists who were recently granted amnesty by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, WND has learned.
The pardoned terrorists, members of Fatah's Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, were directly involved in orchestrating the foiled attack, according to defense sources. They were granted amnesty in October as a stated Israeli gesture to help bolster Palestinian Authority President and Fatah Chairman Mahmoud Abbas.
The terrorists were given amnesty on condition they disarm, refrain from attacks and spend three months in PA detention facilities and another three months confined to Nablus, the northern West Bank city in which they reside.
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the foiled poison plot was planned by three terrorists from Nablus, two of whom are on Olmert's amnesty list, which restricted the Israel Defense Forces from acting against them.
[...] In June, Olmert granted amnesty to 178 Fatah fugitives who pledged their resignation from any so-called paramilitary organizations. In spite of the amnesty deal, many Brigades members openly brandished weapons and were caught carrying out scores of attacks.
Nevertheless, in October Olmert issued amnesty documents to 43 more Fatah terrorists, [...]
Just this weekend, 13 pardoned Brigades terrorists in Nablus left PA compounds and publicly brandished their weapons. They issued statements they would continue "resistance operations" against Israel.
Immediately after the original amnesty agreements were signed in June, media reports quoted Palestinian security officials stating pardoned Brigades members turned in their weapons and were abiding by the deal.
But calls at the time to the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades members who received amnesty yielded a much different story. [...]
Not all Brigades members even signed their pardon agreements, but they were still granted amnesty by Olmert.
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I just hope the overly magnanimous McCain is paying attention! His “disbanding Gitmo” plan could have a similar effect.
And he believed them????!!!
According to the article, not all the terrorists even agreed to renounce terrorism and they still got amnesty. If accurate, Olmert continues his rush to appease, no matter what the consequences.
Is Olmert naive, stupid, or being threatened by the State Department?
Is Olmert naive, stupid, yrs he is that and worse he is a Leftist coward.
No, President Bush and Condi believed them.
I don't even think they believed them. They just keep the "peace process" fiction alive for cynical political purposes. Very sad.
Pres. Bush and Terrorist-Supporter Rice KNEW they were lying
when the terrorists were released under their pressure.
The murder of Israelis and Americans is planned, organized,
and financed, by the US State Dept.
Why “National Suicide in the UK”?
It seems to me that the present leadership OF ALL THE DEMOCRACIES is unable to stand up to Muzzies right now.
Rather than give in............
I suggest new leadership.
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Olmerde pardons terrorists but makes sure observant Jewish people are cracked down on faster than white on rice! Olmerde needs to be kicked out of office and put on trial by real Israelis for high treason.
They should have made them sign on a paper napkin or something equally worthy of the words written on it. ‘Fool me once’ —
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