PNA Rejects Court Order to Free PFLP Chief

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PNA Rejects Court Order to Free PFLP Chief

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The Palestinian National Authority (PNA) cabinet decided on Monday night not to release Ahmed Saadat, the chief of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) after a PNA supreme court decided earlier that he is not guilty.

"The Palestinian leadership respects the supreme court decision,and believes that not implementing the decision of the court under such circumstances is linked to the Israeli threats," said a statement of the cabinet after its weekly meeting held in the West Bank city of Ramallah and chaired by Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.

The statement said that as soon as the Supreme Court made its decision to release Saadat, "Israel had sealed off Jericho, and the spokesman of (Ariel) Sharon threatened to assassinate him once he is released."

Saadat was detained by the PNA security forces several months ago, and was moved to a jail in the West Bank town of Jericho abouta month ago under the supervision of British and U.S. jails guards in accordance with a U.S.-brokered deal.

Israel insists that Saadat has to remain behind bars after his group was responsible for assassinating former Israeli Tourism Minister Rehavam Zeevi in last October in a hotel in Jerusalem. Four assassins are also in the same jail.

The cabinet statement said that the Israeli threats, the incursions, the mass arrests and the bloodshed "would never bring about security either to the Israeli army who is occupying our landor to the Israeli people."

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