Shalit handed over to Israel

Well that is finally over.
If I was anybody in charge in Israel, the other 550 prisoners to be released at a later date would end up shot in the head during a prison riot ! And just tell Hamas It was an unavoidable accident.(only 477 prisoners released at this time)

Reuters
Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, held in captivity by the Islamist group Hamas since June 2006, was handed over to Israeli officials on Tuesday, Israeli media reported.

Israeli television showed Shalit in Egyptian footage shot earlier in the day walking briskly to a vehicle after he was freed by Hamas officials. It was the first video of Shalit since 2009.

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Detainees don police uniforms in Iraq jailbreak

What a joke, how did these guys get the Uniforms the Police force wears?

It is quite odd that there were only twelve prisoners at the jail and twelve Uniforms were there for the Taking.


Foxnews
A dozen terror suspects disguised in police uniforms broke out of an Iraqi jail Friday, prompting a manhunt across the nation's south for what officials called a dangerous group of top-ranking insurgents linked to al-Qaida.

At least two of the suspects had formerly been held at Camp Bucca, the sprawling prison on Iraq's southern border with Kuwait where the U.S. military held tens of thousands of suspected insurgents — all of whom were transferred to Iraqi custody when the prison camp closed in September 2009.

The 12 suspects were awaiting trial when they obtained the police uniforms and walked out of the small, temporary detention center in one of Saddam Hussein's former palaces before dawn in the southern port city of Basra, said three Iraqi security officials.

Iraqi security forces immediately set up checkpoints on two major northbound highways to stop cars, asking all police to display their official ID cards as they urgently tried to track down the suspects. Basra is Iraq's second-largest city and is located 340 miles (550 kilometers) southeast of Baghdad.

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About 140 inmates escape Mexican border prison

Mexico's Prison system is just worthless.



MEXICO CITY (AP) — About 140 inmates escaped Friday from a state prison in the northern Mexico border city of Nuevo Laredo, across the border from Laredo, Texas.

The federal Interior Department blamed the breakout on local authorities, saying they did not properly guard the facility.

"The absence of effective methods of guarding and control by local authorities is deplorable, and it has caused frequent escapes from prisons that put the public at risk," the department said in a statement.

It called on state authorities to clean up their prison and judicial systems by increased screening and vetting of corrections officers. In past cases, prison guards — often underpaid or under threat from gangs — have been implicated in prison escapes.

Federal police were dispatched to patrol the area, and roadblocks were set up to search for escaped prisoners.

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West's prisons can keep militant Islam out: study

The west with it's current Policy of Appeasement towards Muslims will never listen to this "advise" , We can't even say no to a Mass murderer or a Pedophile without the ACLU crying foul .

If there is anywhere in the world to break a law and get some "Cushy" time behind bars it is the United States ! Nowhere else .



(Reuters) - Western prisons could root out militant Islamism among inmates by adopting the more imaginative approaches to prisoners used in parts of the Middle East and Asia, a British study suggests.


The provision of religious advice and helping prisoners cultivate non-extremist social networks are among measures proposed in the study of prisons in 15 countries.

Britain's chief prison inspector said last month the treatment of Muslim inmates by prison staff as potentially dangerous militants risked driving them into the hands of radical groups.

Prisons occupy a central place in the history of militant Islamist groups such as al Qaeda which see them as valued centers of learning, recruitment and indoctrination.

Creative programs can turn the tide, argues the study of prison militants in Afghanistan, Algeria, Britain, Egypt, France, Indonesia, Israel, Netherlands, Pakistan, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Spain, the United States and Yemen.

For example in Singapore, alleged terrorists are systematically re-educated in prison, said the report by London's International Center for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence (ICSR).

A team of trained religious advisers helps them go through the Koran, showing how critical passages need to be read in context, and how extremist notions about violence are often based on misreadings and misinterpretations, the report says.

Prisons can be "a place for reform as well as radicalization," Peter Neumann, study author and director of ICSR based at London University's King's College, told Reuters.

"Prisons can play a positive role in tackling problems of radicalization and terrorism in society as a whole."

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The Religion of Peace's idea of religious outreach:

Egypt: Muslims burn Christian shops.

Russian Priest and Critic of Islam shot to death in Church.

Maldives: Legislators ask President to ban non-Muslim worship.

Seizure of 15,000 Bibles in Malaysia stuns Christians.

Iran frees 2 female Christians after 9 months in Evin Prison; could still face charges of apostasy and proselytizing.

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Israel Releases 198 Prisoners

Just before the arrival of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Israel released 198 palestinian prisoners. The move to release 198 prisoners to Fatah is meant to strengthen the group.

As the prisoners were receiving a hero's welcome in the West Bank, Mohmoud Abbas thanked Israel by saying "There will be no peace without the release of all Palestinians imprisoned in Israel".Reuters

RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Israel freed 198 Palestinian prisoners to a hero's welcome in the West Bank on Monday, saying it hoped the release would bolster Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and U.S.-sponsored peace efforts.

The longest-serving Palestinian prisoner in Israeli custody, Said al-Atabeh, 57, of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP), was among those released.

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"It's not easy to release prisoners, especially prisoners that were involved directly in terrorist acts against innocent civilians," said Mark Regev, a spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.

Wearing shirts emblazoned with pictures of Abbas and the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, some of the released prisoners flashed V-for-Victory signs as they leaned out of windows of buses that took them from Ofer prison to the city of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank.

Cheering crowds waved Palestinian flags and danced in the street to welcome the 194 men and four women, who were received at a ceremony at the Palestinian Authority compound in Ramallah.

"There is no doubt that we seek peace and we are trying to seek our goals -- and there won't be peace without the release of all prisoners," Abbas said at the celebration.

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Israel to Release 200 Fatah Terrorists

In another show of goodwill, Israel is planning on releasing 200 Fatah terrorists. The idea is to strengthen Fatah, but why? How many times has Israel shown goodwill towards their Arab neighbours only to have their neighbours respond in violence?

Shin Bet, the Israeli security agency, is pretty upset over the latest prisoner release. Basically all their hard work is for nothing. Jerusalem Post

The government's decision to release some 200 security prisoners - mainly from Fatah and including two with "blood on their hands" - to help Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is opposed by the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency), a senior defense official told The Jerusalem Post on Sunday.

News of the impending release was received negatively among Shin Bet handlers and agents, the source said.

"You have to hear the responses inside the Shin Bet to the release. They work day and night to capture and neutralize terrorists, and all of it is gone in an instant," he said.

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The government's attempt to help Fatah with the new prisoner release was unlikely to succeed, Brig.-Gen. (res.) Shalom Harari, a senior research scholar with the Institute for Counter-Terrorism at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya, said on Sunday.

Harari, who was as a senior adviser on Palestinian affairs to the Defense Ministry for 20 years, said Fatah was in an extremely vulnerable state, and that the proposed prisoner release would likely be "forgotten after two days."

Fatah's responses to previous prisoner releases were not encouraging, he said. "On the morning after the release, we heard Fatah blaming Israel. Whatever happens, they will blame Israel and fault everyone except for themselves," Harari said.

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Israel to Release 150 Palestinian Terrorists

More good will gestures from the Israelis that will be used against them. None of these prisoners are rehabilitated. As soon as they're released they vow to continue fighting Israel, like Samir Kuntar 3 weeks ago.

I wonder what the recidivism rate will be. CBC

In a goodwill gesture, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has pledged to free more than 150 Palestinian prisoners later this month.

Olmert made the announcement Wednesday while meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Jerusalem.

Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat confirmed the prisoners would be released Aug. 25, although it is unclear if prominent detainees Marwan Barghouti and Ahmed Saadat will be among them.

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Barghouti, seen as a natural successor to Abbas, was jailed for life in Israel for his involvement in deadly attacks on Israeli citizens. Saadat was arrested after the group he leads — the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine — claimed responsibility for assassinating an Israeli cabinet minister.

Abbas has asked that both prisoners be released.

Israel has refused in the past to free prisoners directly linked to fatal attacks, although the government made an exception three weeks ago when it released accused Lebanese prisoner Samir Kantar, who was convicted of killing an Israeli father, daughter and policeman.

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