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Weapons found at Palestinian mission in Prague
2014-01-03
[JPOST] The Paleostinian envoy to Prague was 'deliberately killed', his daughter alleged on Thursday, a day after he died in a mysterious kaboom after opening a safe in his residence. Czech police said the blast that killed ambassador Jamal al-Jamal might have been caused by mishandling an explosive securing the safe. They said they were not treating it as an attack or a terrorist incident.

In a further twist, Sherlocks found unlicensed weapons at the Paleostinian diplomatic mission, and the Czech foreign ministry said it would demand an explanation.
Do you really need an explanation?
Jamal suffered lethal injuries to his head, chest and abdomen in the kaboom on New Year's Day. His daughter Rana al-Jamal, 30, told Rooters: "We believe my father was killed and that his death was something arranged and not an accident. How? We do not know and that is what we want to know."

Jamal had been in Prague only since October but had previously served at the mission for two decades from the mid-1980s, the daughter said. He had used the safe during that period and it remained in Prague when he left, she added by telephone from Ramallah in the West Bank.

The Paleostinian mission is in the process of moving into a new embassy and residence, which share the same compound. Jamal was killed at the new residence.

"The safe was emptied and moved to the house. My father had been putting documents inside it and it was open," Rana al-Jamal said. "The kaboom took place while he used it."

She said her mother, who was there at the time, had told her the safe had not been badly damaged.

Nabil el-Fahel, a front man for the Paleostinian mission, said the safe was being used on a daily basis to store cash.

Some safes can be fitted with small charges to destroy secret documents in the event of the lock being tampered with. But Fahel said embassy staff were not aware that any explosive mechanism was attached to the safe that Jamal opened.

Weapons find

Prague police chief Martin Vondrasek told Czech Radio that Sherlocks had found weapons at the mission that were not registered with local authorities. He did not reveal the quantity and type.

A Paleostinian official, speaking on condition of anonymity
... for fear of being murdered...
, told Rooters that the mission's staff had submitted the arms to the Czech authorities. He did not elaborate on the type of weapons involved, but said they had been retrieved from an old sack and had been untouched since Cold War times.

The Czech foreign ministry said it was concerned by the discovery. It said diplomats' weapons were subject to local laws on arms, which require registration and licensing.

"The ministry is concerned that among evidence... were weapons not registered in the Czech Republic," the ministry said in a statement.

"In such case, the Vienna Convention on diplomatic relations may have been breached and we will demand an explanation," it added, referring to the international rules that govern the activities of diplomats and embassies.
Posted by:Fred

#5  directions to open the safe: turn twice to zero, one full turn to 22 and then scrape your brains off the back wall.
Posted by: Airandee   2014-01-03 10:46  

#4  I'm sure they all were there for medical reasons - everyone knows that Palestinians just can't go without their gun-sex.
Posted by: CrazyFool   2014-01-03 07:55  

#3  To be used in Prague? I would assume so. Palestinians are not your friends.
Posted by: Spereting Tingle4064   2014-01-03 05:58  

#2  In a further twist, Sherlocks found unlicensed weapons at the Paleostinian diplomatic mission

Told you.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2014-01-03 03:45  

#1  
Yes, we will annihilate them.
Posted by: Besoeker   2014-01-03 02:01  

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