A Palestinian terrorist freed last week by Israel was named a special adviser to Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat. Ahmed Jbarra served 28 years in Israeli jails for planting a booby- trapped refrigerator in downtown Jerusalem in 1975 that killed 14 people.
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