Islamic Group Wants Probe of Alleged US-Israeli Collaboration

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(CNSNews.com) - A Washington-based Islamic advocacy group is calling for an independent investigation into allegations that the United States colluded with Israel in its attack on a Palestinian prison in the West Bank on Tuesday.
Israeli troops stormed the prison in Jericho just minutes after U.S. and British monitors left the facility -- because of deteriorating security, they said. Both the U.S. and Britain have denied coordinating the departure of the prison monitors with Israel, but the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) said questions about that must be put to rest.
"The fact that the assault came just minutes after the withdrawal of American monitors creates the impression that there was coordination with the Israeli military," said Nihad Awad, CAIR's executive director. (The fact that the pali government won't stop terrorist from killing innocent Israeli civilians gives the impression that all palis are slimy, no good, terrorist. -ed.)
Awad said an independent investigation is necessary to confirm the facts of the case -- otherwise, the incident will only "reinforce the perception in the region that our nation's foreign policy serves Israeli, not American, interests."
Israel is America's strongest ally in the Middle East. The Bush administration is pushing for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas admitted this week that he was told beforehand that U.S. and British monitors would be leaving the prison -- but he was quoted as saying he was unaware of the exact timing of their departure.
Abbas and other Palestinians strongly condemned the Israeli raid.
Israel said it stormed the prison to prevent the anticipated release of six terrorists, most of them linked to the assassination of Israel's tourism minister several years ago.
During the 10-hour assault, three Palestinians were killed.
Many Palestinians prisoners and security personnel forced out of the jail were photographed in their underwear, humiliating them and apparently discrediting them in the eyes of their fellow Palestinians.
In a press release calling for an independent investigation, CAIR indirectly criticized America's foreign policy by referring to a new study Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. The study, titled "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy," says the United States has enabled Israeli expansion in the occupied territories -- "making it complicit in the crimes perpetrated against the Palestinians." (As opposed to the constant crimes the pali government allows against the innocent Israeli civilians? -ed.)