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Politics : WAR on Terror. Will it engulf the Entire Middle East? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Haim R. Branisteanu who wrote (8124)	11/25/2004 2:27:46 PM
From: Scoobah	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 32591

This is where we are most vulnerable now: IMHO Palestinian-Canadian pleads guilty to planning attacks in North America By Associated Press November 24, 2004 A Gaza-born Canadian citizen pleaded guilty Wednesday to planning attacks on Israelis in North America and was sentenced by a military court to four years in prison, the Israeli army said. Jamal Akkal, 24, was arrested in Gaza on Nov. 1, 2003, and charged by the military with conspiracy to commit manslaughter. Prosecutors said Akkal planned to carry out attacks against Israeli officials traveling in the United States, as well as bombings against Jewish targets in North America. Akkal had denied the charges, claiming a confession he gave was made under duress. Under Wednesday's plea bargain, Akkal was found guilty of conspiracy to commit manslaughter and receiving paramilitary training, the army said. He was credited with time served since his arrest, and a second charge of receiving paramilitary training was dropped. Akkal, who was also fined 2,000 shekels (US$450), had faced up to 21 years in prison, the army said. Akkal was born and raised in the Nusseirat refugee camp in central Gaza and moved to Canada in 1999, where he received citizenship. He was arrested in Gaza after he fired eight shots in the air, his lawyer said. During the trial, Akkal claimed he had come to Gaza to get engaged. The army said he met with militants from the violent Islamic group Hamas, received weapons training and planned attacks. According to the indictment, Akkal was to buy an M-16 rifle in Detroit and bomb materials to carry out the attacks in cities where many Jews live. His handlers also allegedly told Akkal to raise money in mosques in North America, ostensibly to help families of Palestinian suicide bombers but actually to fund Akkal's militant activity, the army charged. Israel denied Canadian media reports that Akkal was abused during interrogation. Akkal had said Hamas approached him to carry out attacks in North America, but never agreed. The Canadian Foreign Ministry did not return a message seeking comment.

To: Haim R. Branisteanu who wrote (8124)	11/25/2004 2:32:51 PM
From: Scoobah	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 32591

We can always rely on the French! All Jews should just leave France and head to the US and Israel. History has shown that when a nation turns on its Jews, that nation is sure to perish. This french gov't is not doing its citizens any favors, bowing to the Hizbollah France permits broadcast of anti-Jewish, pro-terrorist TV channel By Associated Press November 20, 2004 France's audiovisual watchdog agency said Friday it has reached an accord with a Lebanese TV channel linked to anti-Israel group Hezbollah that allows it to stay on the airwaves in France. A top Jewish group expressed anger and a sense of betrayal by the government. The deal came after media regulator CSA had threatened to ban broadcasts by Lebanon's Al-Manar through a Paris satellite operator. Jewish groups complained the network had aired an anti-Semitic series. The regulator on Tuesday gave Al-Manar a license it requested to continue broadcasts through satellite operator Eutelsat into France and many other parts of Europe, the CSA said on its Web site Friday. The CSA action was sparked in December, when an umbrella group of French Jewish organizations complained that Al-Manar had aired an anti-Semitic series in France. The 29-part series, "Al-Shatat," was produced in Syria and broadcast throughout the Middle East by Hezbollah. Based on "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion," it depicts among other scenes the killing of a Christian child on the orders of a rabbi so the blood can be baked into matzos for Passover. CSA director Dominique Baudis, in a letter that accompanied the license, warned that some of the programs aired by the network in the past would violate the license's terms. Some programming by the channel "depicts violence toward civilian populations in a favorable light," could incite hatred among religious or national groups and "bring trouble to the public order," he said. "Your signature of this license implies therefore that you will formally renounce broadcast of programs of this nature on the satellite that comes under French law," he said. Al-Manar, which signed the license Friday, issued a statement saying "it has no problem with French laws and is ready to abide by the legal requirements to broadcast on French airwaves." The statement, issued from Lebanon, accused Israel of unsuccessfully trying to harm its image and provoke the French and other European governments into silencing its voice. The head of France's umbrella organization of Jewish groups expressed outrage. "This is very serious for France's Jewish community ... these terrorists are used to the worst kind of lies," said Roger Cukierman, president of the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions in France. "These are people that we should not be dealing with." "I feel the attitude of the French government in this affair is distressing," he added. "We are scandalized by the total redirection in the position of the CSA."