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Report: Shalit deal hinges on Israel release of four terrorists
By Avi Issacharoff, Haaretz Correspondent
Tags: Terrorist, Hamas, Gaza 

A deal for the release of abducted Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit hinges on a dispute between Israel and Hamas over four Palestinian prisoners whom Israel refuses to free, two pan-Arab newspapers reported Monday.

Israel has agreed, however, to release all of the other prisoners Hamas is demanding in return for Shalit, the London-based dailies Al-Quds al-Arabi and Al-Sharq Al-Awsat reported.

The papers named the four as Abdullah Barghouti, Ibrahim Hamad and Abbas Sayed, all Hamas men, and Ahmed Sa'adat, the leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
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Each of the prisoners was behind a string of terror attacks. Sayed was the mastermind of the massacre at the Park Hotel in Netanya on Passover in 2002, in which 29 civilians were killed.

Abdullah Barghouti, a relative of jailed Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti, prepared the bomb belts and devices used in terror attacks. These included the bombings in Jerusalem at the Sbarro pizza parlor, the Moment café and the cafeteria at the Hebrew University, as well as the suicide attack at the Sheffield snooker hall in Rishon Letzion.

Hamad, the commander of the armed wing of Hamas in Ramallah, has also been convicted of involvement in a number of these attacks.

Sa'adat is in jail for ordering the 2001 assassination of former tourism minister Rehavam Ze'evi.


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      7.   Barghouti already working with Israel 11:56  |  Shtarka 09/02/09
      8.   Don`t worry, Israel will release all these terrorists 12:16  |  Kenny 09/02/09
      9.   above 12:19  |  moishe 09/02/09
      10.   Our prisoners in israel are freedom fighters ,not terrorists!! 12:27  |  Sami H 09/02/09
      11.   Barak sof sof. Why now?? 12:39  |  Moish 09/02/09
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      16.   Go ahead, release them. 13:52  |  Steven 09/02/09
      17.   #4 Angel ask the british--they managed 13:57  |  Anton 09/02/09
      18.   to number 10 14:12  |  Marc 09/02/09
      19.   Bull.. they want another 1,250 prisoners set free 14:16  |  Avi 09/02/09
      20.   Prisoner exchnge 14:17  |  Archie 09/02/09
      21.   #10 Sami 14:17  |  Steven 09/02/09
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