PLO Leader dies in Iraq
From
FOX News comes this story:
bq. Mohammed Abul Abbas, head of a Palestinian splinter group and mastermind of the 1985 hijacking of the Achille Lauro passenger ship in which an American tourist was killed, has died in U.S. custody in Iraq, Palestinian and U.S. officials said Tuesday.
And more:
bq. Abbas was captured in Iraq in April by U.S. forces. Late Tuesday, officials in Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's office, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that Abbas had died in U.S. custody.
bq. In Washington, a U.S. official, also speaking on the condition of anonymity, said Abul Abbas died recently of natural causes while in U.S. custody. The official said his health had been deteriorating.
We had him since April of last year so it wasn't like he was being tortured or anything -- we have accounts from Guantanamo saying that we treat our prisoners well. The U.S. official says deteriorating health and death from natural causes and I would believe this.
Wonder how long it will take the moonbats to spin a different story.
And what the #@$& was he doing in Iraq anyway - isn't this supposed to be an Iraqi problem ( the insurgents I mean), there aren't any outside agitators coming in after all...
[/sarcasm]
UPDATE: RIght on schedule
we have this
More spew to follow probably...
Posted by DaveH at March 9, 2004 1:50 PM