And speaking of Westerners buddying up to Islamic jihad terrorists, here's another example from YnetNews, with thanks to Jay:
TEL AVIV - Close buddies? Top terrorist Zakaria Zubeidi made a “guest appearance” in a video prepared by the staff of Reuters news agency in Israel and the Palestinian Authority as a “going away” gift for a colleague, Ynetnews has learned.Zubeidi, who heads Fatah’s al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade in Jenin, has been named by security officials as a key figure in organizing terror attacks on Israeli civilians.
Zubeidi’s al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades have claimed responsibility for more than 300 terror acts in the last five years.
A Reuters spokeswoman confirmed the video’s existence, but said the London-based news organization is “not associated with any group or faction in any conflict.”
The screening, which occurred in a Jerusalem restaurant last March, involved the showing of a video during a private party.
"The video's theme was what Israel would be like in 10 years," said an Israeli government official who attended the party and viewed the video.
"All of a sudden, at the end, there is Zakaria Zubeidi, playing the head of Reuters. Zubeidi was sitting in Reuters' Jenin office, saying he was Reuters’ chief,” the official said.
'They thought video was hilarious'
The party included guests from the BBC, ITN, the Independent newspaper, and French journalists.
"They all thought the video was hilarious," the official said. He added that only a few individuals did not seem amused during the screening.
Is Reuters a company that needs to have its despatches accepted? Are there not rival companies, including the new entrant, Bloomberg? Is there no way to inflict economic damage on Reuters for being, even in bad company, unusually bad? How do we punsish those who hire and promote, instead of discharging or punishing, the Lord Haw-Haws within our societies? This is not a matter of moral appeal, but of hurting them by taking away their money. That is the only kind of appeal they will understand.
Now he is a representative of Abbas'.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1119234009963&p=1078397702269
"Jun. 20, 2005 13:23
Al-Aksa leader Zubeidi to join PA police "
I understood from somewhere else that it was with the equivalent rank of Brigadier.
I would like to see that video. All those 'friends of Islam' partying. Must be a sisht to behold. I hope someone gets a hold of it and posts it on the web.