Israel plans to prosecute six Palestinian terrorists it seized from a West Bank prison. “They were brought to an Israeli jail. They will be indicted according to Israeli law and they will be punished as they deserve,” interim Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told reporters Wednesday, referring to Ahmed Sa’adat and five comrades captured a day earlier in a raid on Jericho.
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