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Iraq Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan told a state newspaper that the government is not considering a release oftwo Americans imprisoned in Baghdadfor illegally crossing the Kuwait border. Secretary of State Warren Christopher today demanded their release, holding President Saddam Hussein responsible for their safety. Ramadan corrected a statement by a member of parliament who indicated over the weekend that the Americans could be released shortly.TIME Middle East bureau chief Dean Fischersays Hussein controls the fate of the prisoners. "The courts count for nothing, the Parliament counts for nothing and the vice president counts for nothing," says Fischer...
...Jerusalem's Western Wall to pray for the young man's safety. Waxman's mother Esther, an English teacher who emigrated to Israel in 1969 from New York City, reminded Washington that Nahshon held dual citizenship and pleaded for the U.S. to "get my son released." Even Sheik Yassin, the incarcerated and quadriplegic spiritual leader of Hamas, declared on Israeli television, "Killing him is not useful, and our religion orders us to take care of him and his life...
...Waxman, 19, a corporal in the Israeli army, was heading for his girlfriend's house. Hitchhiking in central Israel, he was picked up by activists from the militant Islamic movement Hamas. Two days later they named their ransom: the release from Israeli jails of their spiritual leader Sheik Ahmed Yassin and 200 other Palestinian and Lebanese prisoners. Waxman was hardly the first Israeli to be taken hostage. Fundamentalists from the West Bank and Gaza Strip have seized nine others during the past five years, killing all of them. But there was a difference this time. The kidnappers had distributed...
...received intelligence that the captive was in a house in Bir-Nabala, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, just three miles north of his parents' home in Ramot, a Jerusalem suburb. Throughout the day, Rabin said later, the Israelis considered a tentative Hamas proposal to exchange Waxman for Sheik Yassin, whom the government has considered freeing anyway because of his failing health. According to Rabin, the offer was never made firm by Hamas, but the militants did agree to extend their deadline by 24 hours...
...opening dialogue. Hamas has responded to my appeal for an urgent meeting in Yemen. I am also insisting that Sheik Ahmed Yassin, the founder of Hamas, be released very soon. The Palestinian people who opposed all these sacrifices will not harm this victory...