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Free Ahmad Saadat Campaign (by Latuff)

Latuff | 15.07.2009 20:01 | University Occupations for Gaza | Palestine | Repression | Terror War | World

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Free Ahmad Saadat Campaign 1
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Ahmad Sa'adat, General Secretary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and member of the Palestinian Legislative Council, is one of over 11,000 Palestinian political prisoners held in Israeli jails. These political prisoners, men, women and children, are activists, organizers and political leaders of the Palestinian people.

Your help and support are needed to secure justice and freedom for Ahmad Sa'adat and Palestinian political prisoners. Please take action today:  http://www.freeahmadsaadat.org/

Latuff
- e-mail: carlos.latuff@gmail.com
- Homepage: http://www.freeahmadsaadat.org/

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"activists, organizers and political leaders" my arse

16.07.2009 06:51

* The hijacking of an El Al flight from Rome to Lod airport in Israel on 23 July 1968. The Western media reported that the flight was targeted because the PFLP believed Israeli general Yitzhak Rabin, who was Israeli ambassador to the USA, was on board. Several individuals involved with the hijacking, including Leila Khaled deny this. The plane was diverted to Algiers, where 21 passengers and 11 crew members were held for 39 days, until August 31;
* Gunmen opened fire on an El Al passenger jet in Athens about to take off for New York on 26 December 1968, killing one Israeli mechanic;
* An attack on El Al passengers jet at Zürich airport on 18 February 1969, killing the co-pilot and wounding the pilot;
* The bombing of a Jerusalem supermarket on 20 February 1969, killing two Israelis and wounding twenty others;
* The hijacking of a TWA flight from Los Angeles to Damascus on 29 August 1969 by a PFLP cell led by Leila Khaled, who became the PFLP's most famous recruit. Two Israeli passengers were held for 44 days;
* Three adult Palestinians and three boys aged 14 and 15 years old threw grenades at the Israeli embassies in The Hague, Bonn and the El Al office in Brussels on the same day, 9 September 1969 with no casualties;
* Attack on a bus containing El Al passengers at Munich airport, killing one passenger and wounding 11 on 10 February 1970;
* The bombing, with a barometric pressure device, of a Swissair flight bound for Israel, killing 47, on 21 February 1970; for details see Swissair Flight 330.
* On 6 September 1970, the PFLP (including Leila Khaled) hijacked four passenger aircraft from Pan Am, TWA and Swissair on flights to New York from Brussels, Frankfurt and Zürich; and on 9 September 1970, hijacked a BOAC flight from Bahrain to London via Beirut. The Pan Am flight was diverted to Cairo; the TWA, Swissair and BOAC flights were diverted to Dawson's Field in Zarqa, Jordan. The TWA, Swissair and BOAC aircraft were subsequently blown up by the PFLP on September 12, in front of the world media, after all passengers had been taken off the planes. The event is significant, as it was cited as a reason for the Black September clashes between Palestinian and Jordanian forces.
* On May 30, 1972, 28 passengers were gunned down at Ben Gurion International Airport by members of the Japanese Red Army in collaboration with the PFLP in what became known as the Lod Airport massacre.
* On 13 October 13 1977, the PFLP hijacked Lufthansa flight LH181, a Boeing 737 flying from Palma de Mallorca to Frankfurt. After various stopovers the pilot was killed. The remaining passengers and crew were eventually rescued by German counter-terrorism special forces see Mogadishu hijacking.
* The bombing of the synagogue of ULIF, located on rue Copernic, Paris, on October 3, 1980, during holiday services.[6]
The PFLP's Abu Ali Mustapha Brigades has carried out attacks on both civilians and military targets during the Al-Aqsa Intifada. Some of these attacks are:

* The killing of Meir Lixenberg, councillor and head of security in four settlements, who was shot while travelling in his car in the West Bank on 27 August 2001. PFLP claimed that this was a retaliation for the killing of Abu Ali Mustafa. [7][not in citation given]
* The 21 October, 2001 assassination of Israeli Minister for Tourism Rehavam Zeevi by Hamdi Quran, the only Israeli politician to have been assassinated in the current intifada.[citation needed]
* A suicide bombing in a pizzeria in Karnei Shomron, on the West Bank on 16 February 2002, killing three Israeli settlers. [7][not in citation given]
* A suicide bombing in Ariel on 7 March 2002, which left wounded but no fatalities.
* A suicide bombing in a Netanya market in Israel, on 19 May 2002, killing three Israelis. This attack was also claimed by Hamas[7],[not in citation given] but the Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades have identified the perpetrator on their website as one of their members[3][dead link][4][dead link]
* A suicide bombing in the bus station at Geha Junction in Petah Tikva on 25 December, 2003 which killed 4 Israelis. [5]
* A suicide bombing in Bikat Hayerden on 22 May , 2004 , which left no fatalities. [6]
* A suicide bombing in the Carmel Market in Tel Aviv on 1 November, 2004 , which killed 3 Israeli civilians. [7]

Terrorist crimes of the "PFLP"


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^^^ 'Israel's Internet Fighting Team' spotted on Indymedia

16.07.2009 09:02

This is exactly the sort of comment one would expect from such a unit.

I don't know the PFLP's full list of actions, nor whether this man was involved and to what extent, but I do know that your list counts 96 deaths over aproximately 40 years, and many incidents of hijacking of transnational craft. In the last 6 months how many civilians have the israeli state killed, justified by them as necessary in reaching their goals, and how many craft have been hijacked?

 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/07/434430.html

Not israeli


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NVM

16.07.2009 09:08

Nevermind; just responding to a now deleted comment.

Not israeli


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It'sOK for terrorists to kill people, not OK for the army to kill people, right?

16.07.2009 22:14

Great comment, not an israeli, love the way that anyone who points out that terrorists kill people is an ISRAELI! and hey, of course the brutality of the IDF makes it OK to blow people up - just as long as the peopel doing the killing are terr- er, freedom fighters.

Agent 006, er, I mean operator


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