Ahmad Sadaat (PFLP) Kicks of Election Campaign

by al-masakin

Tue, Jan 10, 2006 11:41AM

Under heavy police guard, Ahmed Sadat, leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), launches his election campaign from the grounds of the jail in the West bank town of Jericho, where he is being held in joint CIA/MI-5 custody for the assassination of a Zionazi Tourism Minister Rahbaa'm Zevi in retailiation for the Zionist assassination of PFLP Sec. Gen. Ali Mustafa Aug. 27 2001.

Campaigning began for the second Palestinian general election, with the rival Fatah and Hamas factions unveiling their programmes amid a new storm over voting in Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem. Yassir Arafat traded Ahmad Sadaat for his own freedom in 2002 in an infamous swap called the Muqata Deal(AFP/Awad Awad)

MORE: Letter from Ahmad Sadaat Jan. 14, 2003
http://www.indybay.org/news/2003/11/1658320.php

------------------------
Al-Masakin News Agency
http://al-masakin.blogspot.com

§Letter from Ahmad Sadaat Jan. 14, 2003

by al-masakin

Tue, Jan 10, 2006 11:41AM

Add Your Comments

§Ahmad Sadaat Voted ::PHOTO:::

by al-masakin

Fri, Jan 27, 2006 2:26PM

Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) leader Ahmed Saadat shows his ink-stained finger after voting in parliamentary election from a prison polling station in the West Bank town of Jericho.(AFP/Awad Awad)

Add a Comment

§Sadaat 25 Jan 06 :::PHOTO 2:::

by al-masakin

Fri, Jan 27, 2006 2:28PM

Leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine Ahmed Saadat (R) is followed by other prisoners on their way to vote in a prison in Jericho, January 25, 2006. Ahmed Saadat, who was jailed under foreign supervision in the West Bank city of Jericho on charges of assassination of Israeli Tourism Minister, is the candidate for parliamentary elections and the head of a 50-member list drawn from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a Marxist group that voiced reservations on past peace deals. Palestinians voted in their first parliamentary elections in a decade on Wednesday, a ballot that could bring the militant Islamic Hamas movement into government for the first time. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj

Add a Comment

§PFLP chief casts vote in prison

by al-masakin

Fri, Jan 27, 2006 2:33PM

PFLP chief casts vote in prison
Published: Thursday, 26 January, 2006, 09:49 AM Doha Time

JERICHO: The leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine voted yesterday in the Palestinian parliamentary election from prison inside the West Bank from where he is a candidate.

Ahmed Saadat, who heads the leftist PFLP’s list, voted in a booth specially set up in the prison in this sleepy Jordan valley town where he is being held over the assassination of hardline Israeli tourism minister Rehavam Zeevi in 2001.

“Today we are demonstrating that our people know how to practice democracy as well as resistance,” Saadat told journalists who had been given permission to enter the prison where he and three PFLP colleagues are held under American-British supervision.

Around 50 Palestinian prisoners are running for seats in the Ramallah-based legislative council, including the head of the ruling Fatah party’s list, Marwan Barghuti.

In Barghuti’s home village of Kobar, close to Ramallah, his 76-year-old mother struggled to the polling booth.

“Of course I voted for Marwan and I hope that he will be coming home,” she said of the leader of the Palestinian uprising who was handed five life sentences by an Israeli court in 2004. – AFP

http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=70243&version=1&template_id=37&parent_id=17

Add a Comment

Support Independent Media

We are 100% volunteer and depend on your participation to sustain our efforts!