Palestinian Court Orders Release of Militant Wanted by Israel
In a statement, the cabinet said it respected the decision by the High Court of Justice but said the ruling to release Mr. Sa'adat "cannot be implemented under these circumstances because of Israeli threats." From Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on down, Israeli officials had swiftly warned that no good would befall Mr. Sa'adt if he were set free.

The Israelis accuse him of ordering the murder of Israeli Tourism Minister Rehavam Zeevi, an advocate of "transfer" or expulsion of Arabs, gunned down in an East Jerusalem hotel in retaliation for the assassination of Mr. Sa'adat's predecessor, Abu Ali Mustapha, by a rocket to his head through his office window. The shooting was claimed by the P.F.L.P. But, sitting in Gaza, the Palestinian Authority's High Court ordered the release of Mr. Sa'adat, who was actually never formally charged. He is one of six Palestinians watched by American and British monitors in a Palestinian prison in Jericho under the agreement brokered by American and international officials that freed Mr. Arafat after five weeks. There was, the court said, no evidence.
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