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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (99990)	6/4/2003 5:39:27 AM
From: thames_sider	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

On Abu Nidal, if you read my post you may have noted I'd already commented on his execution. He's 20-year-old news... library.nps.navy.mil Has not staged a major attack against Western targets since the late 1980s. In other words, his organisation seems to have had substantial aid from Iraq - but he's been irrelevant since before we stopped arming and aiding Saddam, and was most active while Saddam was our "friend". I think I was conflating Abu Abbas and Abu Nidal. Abbas is also not exactly an active terrorist... cnn.com Erakat pointed to the Oslo accords, signed by Israel and the PLO and witnessed by the United States, Russia, Jordan, Egypt, Norway and the European Union, of which Italy is a member. That agreement specified that no member of the Palestine Liberation Organization will be arrested or brought to court for any action that happened before September 13, 1993, the day the first Oslo accord was signed, Erakat said. U.S. authorities filed a criminal complaint against Abbas over Klinghoffer's death in 1986, but a federal grand jury never indicted him. U.S. officials said they were scrambling to find out why the complaint was dropped and "actively discussing" what, if any, legal action to take next. ... One of several guerrilla leaders who belonged to a Palestinian parliament-in-exile, Abbas occasionally traveled to the Palestinian territories, although his movements there were restricted. In a 1996 interview, he told CNN the time for an armed struggle for a Palestinian state was over. As for the others, well, none found, and debatable assertions (Atta? he was in Florida at the time, according to the FBI, the Prague assertion has long been discredited), and no sign of Saddam supporting their actions if they got promptly put in jail... is that really the best we can find, vague accusations that two or three peripheral characters are being looked for? [not found, or even confirmed present, just sought]. I suspect you'll find more terrorists - past and present - in any other ME country... or indeed in NI, we've got two of the lousy f*ckers in government now instead of the unmarked graves where they belong. Don't imply I'm soft on terrorism or its supporters, please; I just like honesty...