From: "Stasi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Peoples War] Palestine: PFLP Suspends Membership in PLO PFLP Suspends Membership in PLO ========================= Xinhuanet 2002-02-02 23:43:45 GAZA, February 2 (Xinhuanet) -- The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) announced on Saturday that it suspended its membership in the executive committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) until the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) release its secretary general Ahmed Saadat. A PFLP statement sent to Xinhua said that the decision of suspension was made after the PNA, arrested Saadat and put him into the Palestinian jail three weeks ago, failed to release the PFLP leader despite its attempts and interventions. "Therefore we believe that the decision to arrest Saadat was political, and the PFLP decided to suspend its membership into the PLO executive committee until Saadat is released," said the statement. The PNA security forces arrested Saadat on January 15 in the West Bank town of Ramallah after pressure practiced on PNA Chairman Yasser Arafat by Israel and the United States to arrest Saadat. The pressure also was to make the PNA arrests the assassins of Israeli far right-wing tourism minister Rehavam Ze'evi that was killed in October by PFLP militants in a hotel in Jerusalem in revenge for assassinating the PFLP Secretary General Abu Ali Mustafa in August. The PNA security forces said that Saadat, who was believed to be behind the assassination of Ze'evi, would be kept in jail until he reveals the hiding place of the two assassins of Ze'evi. The PFLP is the second Palestinian faction member of the PLO after the Palestinian mainstream Fatah movement that is chaired by Arafat. Arafat is also the chairman of the PLO executive committee. "The PFLP gave chance to all the previous faithful efforts to release Saadat. But now after the PNA refuses to release him, we decided to suspend our membership in the PLO until Saadat is released," added the statement. The PFLP is a left-wing party among the PLO and opposed the Oslo peace agreements that were signed between Israel and the Palestinians in 1993. It vowed to continue armed struggle until Israeli occupation of Gaza and the West bank ends. Enditem _________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki Phone +358-40-7177941 Fax +358-9-7591081 http://www.kominf.pp.fi General class struggle news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________
