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| | lizzy | Feb 19, 6:24am | WANTED!
Former Israeli commander in the Gaza Strip.
Major General Doron Almog for war crimes under the Geneva conventions of ordering the demolition of 59 civilian Palestinian homes.
Israeli diplomats were tipped off after Almog's plane left Israel on September 11 2005.
Once it landed in London, a military attaché from the Israeli embassy boarded the jet and warned Almog to stay on board.
He refused to leave the plane until it took off again for Israel, two hours later.
UK police were waiting to arrest him at the immigration desk inside the terminal.
The war crimes arrest warrant was issued by senior district judge Timothy Workman, after an application by British lawyers acting for Palestinian victims of the demolition in 2002, in Gaza.
Under British law, war crimes are treated so seriously that even if they are committed abroad, UK courts have jurisdiction to try suspects.
The arrest warrant was issued at Bow Street magistrates court, central London.
It was believed to be the first warrant for war crimes of its kind issued in Britain against an Israeli national over conduct in the conflict with Palestinians.
Israel's then military attaché in London arrived on the plane to inform him that he faced arrest.
before the planned arrest, Scotland Yard consulted West Midlands police and a special police unit called the
National Communities Tensions Team,
for advice on reaction in the British Jewish community.
A "trusted partner" of the police, a Jewish contact, also made inquiries about finding a lawyer for Almog and raising his bail money, once he was arrested.
The document says the inquiries were made "discreetly" without Almog's name being mentioned.
But Machover said it would have been obvious that the inquiries were about Almog: "If you go about making inquiries of this kind, it is easy for someone to put two and two together and work out the inquiries are to do with Almog."
Almog, commanding officer of the Israeli defence forces' southern command from December 2000 - July 2003, was due to arrive at Heathrow airport at 1.25pm on a flight belonging to El Al, Israel's national carrier.
The airline refused Scotland Yard permission to board the plane.
It was confirmed that El Al were refusing voluntary access to the plane and DSU MacBrayne could not get confirmation that he had a legal right to do so.
Daniel Machover, a solicitor involved in gaining the warrant on behalf of Almog's Palestinian victims, said police did not need permission to board the plane.
He said they should have told the airline: "You're on British soil, we're coming aboard."
Machover said police could also have stopped the plane taking off until Almog emerged.
"DSU MacBrayne took the considered opinion that, as access to the plane would not be consensual, there existed a real threat of an armed confrontation."
Detectives considered boarding the plane with armed officers, but felt this "presented an exponential risk to the officers, especially with the lack of intelligence regarding personnel on the plane".
Those who obtained the warrant say the police made errors.
Raji Sourani, the director of the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, said: "Failure to respect the rule of law and to pursue those responsible for attacking civilians will undermine the respect for international law which we do badly need if we are to have peace in our region. Until such time we will be faced with the rule of the jungle."
The 55-year-old former general said:It was also fortunate that I was flying with El Al as they are loyal. I don't know what would have happened if I had been on a British Airways flight."
guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/feb/19/uksecurity.israelandthepalestinians [guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/feb/19/uksecurity.israelandthepalestinians]
So we have a suspected terrorist..
Our own yard alert the British Jewish community,
who aid the terrorist by warning him..this comes from the Israeli embassy.
We had a muslim given a long jail sentence for giving a cousin a mobile phone..
But despite the legal warrent for war crimes commited under the Geneva Convention we could not detain his plane nor board it through fear that they may shoot us, or that we may upset the Jewish community.
I take it that these terrorist laws are only aplicable to Muslims, Arabs or those that assist them and not Jews. |
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| | | Grouchoo | Mar 1, 3:17pm | wanted - idiot former commander.
Pref: pre: Israel army. |
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