Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 11:03:05 +0300
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Subject: [ININ] Israeli convicted of defacing Muslim grave with pig's
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>Hijri date: Wednesday 26 Jumaada al-THaany 1420 A.H.
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>Israeli convicted of defacing Muslim grave with pig's head
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>(source: http://www.tampabayonline.net/news/news101n.htm)
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>JERUSALEM (AP) - A Jewish extremist was convicted Tuesday of plotting to
>deface a Muslim grave with a pig's head.
>Avigdor Eskin, however, was a!
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cquitted of the most serious charge against
>him - conspiring to throw a pig's head into Islam's third holiest site, in
>Jerusalem, during prayers.
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>A second extremist, Damian Peckovich, was convicted in March of sedition
>in the planned attack against the al-Aqsa Mosque compound, a plot a judge
>said could have led to war with the Muslim world.
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>The pig is ritually impure to Muslims, and the attack was to have taken
>place during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
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>Judge Yehudit Tzur found Eskin guilty of instructing Peckovich to place a
>pig's head on the grave of Izzedine al-Qassam, a Muslim cleric killed in
>guerrilla warfare with the British rulers of Palestine in 1935. The head
>was put on the grave in September 1997.
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>He also found Eskin guilty of plotting with Peckovich to set fire to the
>Jerusalem office of Dor Shalom, a peace group established by Yuval Ra!
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bin,
>son of slain Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. The office was damaged in the
>arson attack but nobody was hurt.
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>Eskin did not physically participate in either of the crimes, but gave
>Peckovich detailed instructions, the judge said. Peckovich was convicted
>in both incidents in March.
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>Eskin said he would appeal the convictions. ``The state wanted to
>prosecute me for my political views,'' he told reporters.
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>Defense lawyer Naftali Werzberger said his client's involvement in the
>crimes was ``marginal'' and that the judge was biased because of Eskin's
>stated admiration for Yitzhak Rabin's assassin Yigal Amir.
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>Eskin served four months in jail in 1997 for placing a death curse on
>Rabin two weeks before his November 1995 assassination.
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>Eskin was to remain free on bail but confined to his residential
>neighborhood in Jerusalem until he is sentence!
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d following a Nov. 4
>hearing. His convictions carry a maximum jail term of 10 years.
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