Mahmoud al Abbas, Palestinian Terrorist Chief, Caught.

national | miscellaneous | news report

Wednesday April 16, 2003 14:30

by Avi H.

Living Proof of Link between Saddam and Terrorism

US Troops apprehend this evil man in a swoop on his house in Bagdad, after he is refused entry into Syria.

Clearly hung up to dry by the Syrians, unlike other top Iraqi Baathists, Mahmoud al Abbas is the face of the link between Saddam Hussein and Palestinian terrorism. Head of the Palestinian Liberation Front, which was a faction of the PLO originally, he has been coordinating Iraqi payments to the families of Palestinian suicide bombers after their rampages among Israeli homes, schools, shops and markets.

He is said to have masterminded the hijacking of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro in the Mediterranean in 1985. During the hijacking, he had been in direct radio contact with Yasser Arafat. Every word Arafat said was recorded by Israeli and Egyptian intelligence. Abbas chose one passenger, a wheelchair-bound 79 year old man named Leon Klinghoffer, as a hostage. Although the media state only that he was an American, Mr Klinghoffer was singled out because he was a Jew (just like in Daniel Pearl's murder).

"What should I do with him," Abbas asked Arafat.
"Throw him into the sea," Arafat answered.

Abbas carried out his order and Klinghoffer died. Mr Klinghoffer's frail wife witnessed the entire event and died a few months afterwards of cancer. Italy sentenced Mahmoud al Abbas to life imprisonment in absentia for this hideous crime.

However, he has still has to answer for an array of additional crimes personally committed inside Israel. There, he is best known for a thirty-year old terrorist atrocity in Nahariya, when he personally murdered members of a family, of which only the mother, Yael Haran, survived.

Please don't insult our intelligence by responding with the usual, yes, but Israel did this, Israel did that...