(Ha'aretz) Yuval Yoaz - The Jerusalem District Court is to charge on Friday four Palestinian members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine suspected in the October 2001 murder of Minister Rehavam Ze'evi. They were detained in an Israel Defense Forces raid on a Jericho prison. Attorney General Menachem Mazuz had decided earlier that it would not constitute double jeopardy to try the men in Israeli courts, even though some had already been tried by a PA court, because the judicial process in the PA took only a few minutes and could not be considered a valid legal proceeding.
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