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Despite the currently icy relations between the U.S. and Israel, Washington recently sided with Jerusalem in a little-noticed case that has stirred a furor of protest in the Arab world. Ziad Abu Eain, 23, a Palestinian Arab and citizen of Jordan, was extradited from the U.S. to Israel two weeks ago to stand trial on charges that he set off a bomb in the Israeli resort city of Tiberias in May 1979 that killed two youths and injured 36 others. Abu Eain (rhymes with plain) and his supporters have fought a 2½-year battle in U.S. courts against...
...State Alexander Haig expressing his country's "sorrow and pain." Chedli Klibi, secretary general of the Arab League, denounced the move as an "American crime." Palestinians demonstrated against the action in several West Bank towns and in East Jerusalem. Warned Abdeen Jabara of Detroit, one of Abu Eain's attorneys: "This decision will come back to haunt...
...Israeli charges against Abu Eain were based on the testimony of Jamil Yassin, an admitted member of the Palestine Liberation Organization who was arrested for a string of bombings, including the Tiberias explosion, in June 1979. Israeli soldiers found in Yassin's home in Ramallah what one Israeli security officer described as a "bomb factory, pure and simple." Yassin confessed that he built the bomb and recruited Abu Eain to plant it in Tiberias. Yassin was sentenced to life imprisonment, but Abu Eain had already fled Ramallah to visit a sister in Chicago. Israeli officials asked...
...time Abu Eain's hearing was held in Chicago before Federal Magistrate Olga Jurco in the fall of 1979, Yassin had repudiated his testimony and insisted that Abu Eain was not involved in the bombing. Abu Eain, moreover, produced affidavits from a dozen friends and relatives, who swore that at the time of the bombing he was in Ramallah, a two-hour drive from Tiberias. Jurco nevertheless ruled that there was "probable cause" to believe that Abu Eain may be guilty; in effect, she held that the conflicting evidence should properly be aired in an Israeli court. The judge...
...defense lawyers argued that whether or not he was guilty, Abu Eain could not be extradited because he was being charged with a "political offense"; the 1963 extradition treaty between the U.S. and Israel allows for the exemption of political prisoners. The State Department, however, advised the court that "exploding a bomb is not an offense of a political character but of terrorism...