IDF general escapes arrest by London police's anti-terrorist unit

Haaretz ^ | 9/12/05 | Aluf Benn

[dervish]

General (res.) Doron Almog, former head of the Israel Defense Forces' Southern Command, escaped arrest Sunday by the London police's anti-terrorist and war crimes unit, when he remained on an aircraft that had landed in Heathrow airport and returned with it to Israel several hours later.

Almog had arrived in London on an El-Al flight. Israel Ambassador Zvi Hefetz learned of a plan to arrest him for allegedly perpetrating war crimes during the intifada, and quickly informed Yaki Dayan, head of the political department in Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom's bureau.

In Jerusalem no one knew whether Almog was to be handed a subpoena or an arrest warrant, or who was behind the move, but they decided not to take a chance. The Foreign Ministry sent a message to Almog, through the airplane's communication systems, warning him that he could be arrested if he entered the U.K.

Almog decided to remain on the plane. Because he had not passed border control, he was not considered to have entered Great Britain and therefore could not be handed an arrest warrant.

He had been planning to raise funds in the country for a children's village for severely disabled children that he plans to build in the Negev.

The request for Almog's arrest was issued by Judge Timothy Workman in London, at the request of the firm of Hickman and Rose, which specializes in human rights law.

Almog was apparently suspected by the London authorities of gravely violating the Geneva Convention, a criminal violation according to British law.

[dervish]

General Almog used to be in charge of the Southern Command which included Gaza. He has published his position against turning over the Philadelphi Crossing to Egyptian control.

Britain slips further into Dhimmitude and hypocrisy.

Is there a court order to arrest Sir Ian Blair, responsible for the shoot to kill order, for shooting a Brazilian man lying on the ground in the head at point blank range?

Britain's libel laws are used to protect Islamic terrorists and those who fund them from exposure. Several US writers have been prosecuted under English Libel Law for exposing Saudi and other terror funders.

[dervish]

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[CondorFlight]

OK, let's see them treat the rulers of Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Libya, Iran, China, and others in this fashion.

Then I'll believe that their attempt to arrest an Israeli
does not stem from basic anti-semitism.

[agere_contra]

Almog was apparently suspected by the London authorities of gravely violating the Geneva Convention, a criminal violation according to British law.

Is Israel a signatory to the GC?

[Canard]

Eh? We can't arrest someone sitting on a plane at Heathrow because they haven't entered the country?? That's bonkers.

What happens if there's a hi-jacking? "Err, we'd like to storm the plane, if you'd just be so good as to complete passport formalities first...."

[Red6]

You must question if the British even hear about this?

Red6

[atomicpossum]

Did Arafat ever drop his stinky feet in London?

[anonymoussierra]

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[dennisw]

Interesting. Those pesky Zionists hoodwink her Majesty's forces again, same as 1945-1948

[dennisw]

The former commander of Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip on Monday said he was warned by diplomats not to leave an aircraft that had landed in London on Sunday after a tip-off that British police were waiting to detain him on war crimes charges.

 

Reserve Major-General Doron Almog said he arrived in London on Sunday on a flight of Israeli carrier El Al for a three-day visit with Jewish communities in Britain.

 

"We were about to get off the plane, then one of the stewards came up to me and said the pilot asked that I disembark last," he told Israeli Army Radio on Monday. "After some time, the chief steward said that the Israeli military attaché was on his way and wanted to speak to me. I phoned him and he told me not to get off the plane."

Almog said he was informed that a British Islamic group had filed an allegation of war crimes arising from his command of the military in Gaza Strip from the start of the Palestinian uprising in 2000 to July 2003. During that period, he ordered the destruction of 59 homes near Rafah in revenge for the death of Israeli soldiers in 2002.

According to the Monday edition of the Guardian newspaper, the warrant for the arrest is thought to be the first of its kind issued in Britain against an Israeli national over war crimes committed against Palestinians.

[Centurion2000]

Can anyone say ACT OF WAR?

[yldstrk]

Good move by him and by Isreal. Stupidity by the Brits.

[rdcorso]

I can see the day when one of our own generals is arrested by some limp liberal Euro weasel country for fighting the war on terror.There is no such thing as a war crime when scumbag terrorist are blowing up innocent men,women and children on buses and in restaurants.I wonder how many Palestinians have been arrested for war crimes?

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[Alouette]

During that period, he ordered the destruction of 59 homes near Rafah in revenge for the death of Israeli soldiers in 2002.

Were these the homes that "Pancake" Rachel was trying to protect?

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[ScaniaBoy]

Were these the homes that "Pancake" Rachel was trying to protect?

Only if the houses had very big cellars.

Remember "the flattened one" tried to protect houses where the tunnels that were used for weapon smuggling emerged.

[Iscool]

Blair needs to address this, publicly...We as Americans need to know where Britain stands on this issue...

If I have to chose between Britain and Israel, it will be Israel...

[sheik yerbouty]

Britain is sinking..

[Kenny Bunk]

C'est ci bon mon canard, you have sussed this out correctly.

In effect, the British were telling these lawyers to go fly another kite. A very nice diplomatic resolution to a thorny legal problem.

"Just go home now, there's a good chap."