Report: Militants freed from Israeli jails are behind 14 attacks

[Behind the Aegis]

Members of terror organizations who were released from Israeli custody after being defined as not having "blood on their hands" perpetrated 14 terror attacks in the past several years. In them, 132 Israeli civilians were killed and many others were injured, according to a report released over the weekend by the Almagor Terror Victims Association.

The organization said that from 1993-99, Israel released 6,912 terrorists in the context of various confidence-building gestures, some of whom returned to terror activities "at the cost of huge destruction of life."

Almagor on Sunday called on the Israeli public "not to be led astray by formulations that take the terrorists' murderousness lightly" and "not to console ourselves with the hope that the next terror attack will not hurt us or our immediate surroundings."

The organization issued a list of 14 major attacks carried out or engineered by released terrorists, including the 2002 Park Hotel attack in Netanya (29 killed, 155 injured), the 2002 Karkur Junction attack (14 killed, 42 injured), the suicide attack at Jerusalem's Cafit Cafe (11 killed, 20 injured), and the 2003 suicide attack at Cafe Hillel, also in Jerusalem, in which seven people were killed and many more were injured.


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[razors edge]

1. do you think it is possible

they were tortured in prison, and decided to get some payback?

[Missy M]

2. Interesting timing on the release of this report...

right when the US is debating the treatment and detaining of prisoners, suspected by the US, of terrorism.

[Igel]

4. Politics tend to be local, not just local to you or me.

They're also discussing releasing prisoners from Israeli jails in exchange for Shalit. This report is a backhanded way of saying, "If you release them, they'll be back."

Perhaps a bit more relevant?

On the other hand, they tend to arrest Al-Aqsa MB, JI, and Hamas members on suspicion of being terrorists, supporting terrorists, or sheltering terrorists. So perhaps their suspicions were right after all?

[Englander]

3. Well, there's an objective source.

The head of Almagor, one Meir Indor, is a long-time rw activist, pro-settler, anti-Oslo, &tc. It is
rather meaningless to be accused of being a terrorwist, by a supporter of terrorism. It's like Rummy
calling people appeasers of fascism.