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Ahmad Sa'adat (also transliterated from Arabic as Ahmed Sadat/Saadat, Arabic: احمد سعدات) is a Palestinian politician, and Secretary-General of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). Countries where Arabic is spoken. ...
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The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) (Arabic الجبهة الشعبية لتØرير Ùلسطين - al-jabhah al-sha`biyyah li-tahrÄ«r filastÄ«n) is a Marxist-Leninist, nationalist Palestinian political and military organization, founded in 1967. ...
The PFLP stands for the destruction of Israel, rejects the Oslo Peace Process and demands the right of return for all Palestinian refugees and their decendants into all parts of the former British mandate Palestine. Saadat took over as leader of the PFLP in October 2001. He stands for a more radical position within the PFLP.
He was imprisoned in Jericho by the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) in 2002. In March 2006 Israeli forces attacked the jail and took Sa'adat to Israel; he is currently in Israeli custody. The Palestinian National Authority (PNA or PA; Arabic: السلطة الوطنية الÙلسطينية As-Sulta Al-Wataniyya Al-Filastiniyya Hebrew: הרשות ×”×¤×œ×¡×˜×™× ×™×ª Harashut Hafalastinit) is an interim administrative organization that nominally governs parts of the West Bank and all of the Gaza Strip (which are part of the Palestinian Territories). ...
Sa'adat succeeded Abu Ali Mustafa to the post in 2001, after he was assassinated by Israel at his office in Ramallah on the West Bank. Abu Ali Mustafa (Arabic:ابو علي مصطÙÙ‰), dates (1938 to August 27, 2001), the nom de guerre of Mustafa Zibri, was a Palestinian leader and was general secretary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine from July 2000 until he was assassinated by Israeli forces the following year. ...
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Ramallah (Arabic: (help· info) is a Palestinian city in the West Bank of approximately 57,000 residents. ...
The PFLP has assumed responsibility for the assassination of Tourism Minister Rehavam Zeevi on October 17, 2001, shortly after Saadat became the new leader. Sa'adat was accused by Israel of organizing the assassination. He took refuge in the Muqata'a headquarters of PLO leader Yassir Arafat, who refused to hand him over to Israel. Israel, on the other hand, refused to back down from its arrest order. Rehavam Zeevi (help· info) (×¨×—×‘×¢× ×–×בי-×’× ×“×™) (June 20, 1926 - October 17, 2001) was an Israeli general, politician and historian who founded the right-wing nationalist Moledet party. ...
Mukataa (also spelled Muqataa, Arabic المقاطعة) is a compound of buildings which contain governmental offices and local administrative headquarters. ...
The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) (Arabic Munazzamat al-Tahrir Filastiniyyah منظمة تحرير فلسطينية ) is a political and paramilitary organization of Palestinian Arabs dedicated to the establishment of an independent Palestinian state to consist of the area between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, with an intent to destroy Israel. ...
Yasser Arafat Yasser Arafat (August 4 or August 24, 1929 – November 11, 2004), born Muhammad `Abd ar-Rauf al-Qudwa al-Husayni (Arabic محمد عبد الرؤوف القدوة الحسيني) and also known as Abu `Ammar (ابو عمّار), was co-founder and Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) (1969–2004...
After negotiations involving the United States of America and the United Kingdom, an agreement was reached in between Israel and the PNA. Israel called off the siege of the Muqata'a, and Sa'adat was arrested, given a military trial and put in a Palestinian jail in Jericho, with a force of US and British guards overseeing his captivity.[1] He was not allowed to run for political office, give interviews or address the public, although these bans were sometimes been circumvented or ignored. (See Ma'an interview below.) Jericho (Arabic (help· info); ʼArīḥÄ; Hebrew (help· info); Standard Hebrew YÉ™riḥo; Tiberian Hebrew YÉ™rîḫô, YÉ™rîḥô, Greek ΊεÏιχώ = ΊεÏή ηχώ, HierÄ“ Ä“chÅ - Holy echo) is a town in the West Bank, near the Jordan River. ...
The Palestinian Supreme Court declared that Sa'adat's imprisonment was unconstitutional, and ordered his release, but the PNA refused to comply. Amnesty International has declared that this, and the fact that he received an unfair trial, makes his detention illegal, and that he must either be charged with a crime and given due process, or released. [2] Amnesty International logo Amnesty International (commonly known as Amnesty or AI) is an international, non-governmental organization with the stated purpose of promoting all the human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international standards. ...
On Tuesday, March 14, 2006, the US and Britain withdrew monitors from the Jericho jail where Saadat was being held. The prison was then surrounded by Israeli forces who claimed to prevent the escape of Saadat. In the ensuing stand-off, Palestinian guards left the prison but 200 prisoners refused to surrender.
After daylong shelling by Israeli tanks in which three Palestinian civilians were killed, Israeli military forces took Sa'adat and five other inmates into custody. After his arrest, he was interrogated by the Israeli Shabak. As of March 16, it has not been decided whether Sa'adat and the other suspects will stand for trial in a regular Israeli court or a military tribunal. Shabak emblem Defender who shall not be seen The Shabak (in Hebrew, שבכ (help· info)) an acronym of ShérÅ«t ha-BÄ«tÄhÅn ha-KlÄlÄ« שירות ביטחון כללי) known in English as the Shin Bet (which was how the Shabak was known in Israel in its early days) or the...
Legal Implications
The closest parallel to the future Sa'adat trial is the Marwan Barghouti criminal proceedings that ended in 2004. In that procedure, the accused, the leader of the Fatah Tanzim militia and the alleged founder of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades was tried and convicted on five counts of murder and one of attempted murder in a civil court. The Barghouti case was far less challenging than the Sa'adat case will be for several reasons: Marwan Barghouti in Israeli custody Marwan Barghouti (born June 6, 1959) is a Palestinian leader from the West Bank and a leader of the Fatah movement that forms the backbone of the Palestinian Authority and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). ...
A. Whereas Barghouti was convicted of the murder of five civilians and for attempted murder, Sa'adat will likely only be tried for the assassination of Rehavam Ze'evi, a public figure with a long military record including the Chief of Central Command, thereby provoking the question of whether the victim was a civilian or a legitimate target for assassination.
B. Israel was able to prove that Barghouti had knowledge of and had authorized the terror attacks that he was convicted of. Sa'adat's role in the PFLP military brass is more shadowy, and it can be argued that the attack was a measured response to the assassination of Abu Ali Mustapha by the Israelis. The proximity of dates between the two events also calls into question whether Ze'evi's murder was really a retaliation, or had in fact been planned long before by the PFLP, and found justification after the Israeli operation.
C. Barghouti's testimony that Israel had no jurisdiction over him (the argument failed in his case), may be used by Sa'adat as well, due to the fact that at the time of his capture he was incarcerated in a PA prison as required by a multilateral agreement. Since 2001 though, the Israeli Police had an arrest warrant for both Sa'adat and all of the persons involved in the Ze'evi slaying. Sa'adat nvever denied his involvement in the act, and praised its perpetrators, all of whom were members of the organization he led. These facts constitute just cause for arrest.In addition, the conditions of Sa'adat's incarceration failed to meet any international standards, as he was allowed freedom of movement throughout the prison grounds, was able to communicate freely by telephone, and was allowed to receive visitors or be in the company of any of the other prisoners while unattended by prison staff. Israeli and international legal authorities (including the British monitors attached to the prison) repeatedly called into question whether Sa'adat was incarcerated or simply confined to a safe house where the Israeli Police or security forces had no authority.
Of late it has been reported that Sa'adat will face a military tribunal and not a civil court.
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