How To Deal With a Terrorist, Lesson One

It looks like some people know how to take care of business with terrorists.

Israeli forces on Tuesday raided a West Bank prison to demand the handover of a top Palestinian militant accused of killing an Israeli minister, blasting their way in after U.S. and British monitors withdrew.

Palestinian officials said a guard and a prisoner were killed in clashes at Jericho prison, housing Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) leader Ahmed Saadat, accused of involvement in the assassination of an Israeli minister.

Israeli troops demanded that Saadat and five other militants held in Jericho give themselves up. Soldiers blew up the outer wall of the prison compound, then brought up bulldozers...

Israeli police minister Gideon Ezra said the decision to demand the handover of Saadat and the others was taken because of reports that they could be released -- a possibility raised by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas last week...

The Palestinian Authority condemned the raid and the withdrawal of the U.S. and British monitors.

U.S. and British officials said the monitors were pulled out because of the failure of the Palestinians to carry out security improvements that they had requested.

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