Four Palestinians sentenced to one-year imprisonment for trying to seize the Warsaw express train have been released and deported to Syria. The four were arrested and sentenced last September before they could carry out their plan. They wanted to force Dutch authorities to stop allowing Jewish emigrants from the USSR to pass through Holland. The four men were released upon completion of two-thirds of their sentences and put aboard a Syrian airlines plane for Damascus. They had been sentenced on the relatively minor charge of illegal arms possession.
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