The Palestinian government on Saturday condemned as "terrorism" the killings of three young Palestinian-Americans in North Carolina and called on U.S. authorities to include its investigators in the probe.Really? Palestinian Authority "experts" want to investigate the murders?
Police have charged a neighbor with Tuesday's shooting in the town of Chapel Hill of Deah Barakat, 23, his wife Yusor Abu-Salha, 21, and her sister Razan Abu-Salha, 19, saying the incident followed a dispute over parking.
But investigators said they were also looking into whether the suspect, Craig Stephen Hicks, was motivated by hatred toward the victims because they were Muslim.
Branding Hicks "an American extremist and hateful racist", the Palestinian Foreign Ministry said the incident suggested a rise in dangerous discrimination against American Muslims.
"We consider it a serious indication of the growth of racism and religious extremism which is a direct threat to the lives of hundreds of thousands of American citizens who follow the Islamic faith," the ministry said in a statement.
It called for "a serious investigation and the involvement of Palestinian investigators to clarify the circumstances of these assassinations and premeditated murders" in Chapel Hill.
Given their track record of investigations, that would be interesting indeed.
Here are the top ten findings likely to be discovered by "objective" Palestinian Authority investigators:
- The bullets were made out of depleted uranium
- The apartment complex is an illegal settlement for all non-Muslims who live there
- Hicks blanketed the area with white phosphorus
- Four Korans were stepped on and burned and spat upon during the murders
- Trained wild boars and dogs attacked the victims
- Mohammed cartoons were posted on street signs outside the victims' apartment
- The parking space had belonged to the victims for 8000 years
- Hicks is, of course, really a Jew and a Zionist
- And he owns a bank, two newspapers and a Hollywood studio
- Two words: Polonium poisoning