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Monday, February 14, 2011 |
Jordan minister dubs Israel girls killer hero |
AMMAN — Jordan's justice minister on Monday described a Jordanian soldier "I support the demonstrators' demand to free Ahmad Dakamseh. He's a hero. He "If a Jewish person killed Arabs, his country would have built a statue for Mujalli, a former president of the Jordan Bar Association, was Dakamseh's "It is still my case and I will still defend him. It is a top priority for "Dakamseh needs a special pardon. Only the king can issue a special pardon," The minister's comments drew a furious response from Israel, where tensions "Israel is shocked and recoils from these comments in revulsion," a foreign "This call is all the more serious as it came from the minister in charge of Jordan is the only Arab nation apart from Egypt to have signed a peace In March 1997, Dakamseh fired an automatic weapon at a group of Israeli The attack came almost three years after Jordan and Israel signed a peace The motives of Dakamseh, who was 30 at the time and a married father of The then king Hussein cut short a visit to Europe and rushed home to condemn Jordan also paid compensation. Maisara Malas, who heads a trade unions' committee to support and defend the "We cannot imagine that a great fighter like Dakamseh is in jail instead of Jordan's powerful Islamist movement and the country's 14 trade unions, which |
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