Geneva – World Scout Body: Controversial Jerusalem Troop Not A Member

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    FILE - A scout wears various merit badges as he participates in a ceremony in Sydney marking the World centenary of Scouting August 1, 2007. ReutersGeneva – The world’s main scouting organization says it has no connection to a Palestinian troop in Jerusalem that dedicated a recent training course to one of the killers of an Israeli-American man.

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    Stephen Peck, spokesman for the World Organization of the Scout Movement, said Sunday that the Jerusalem troop is not a member of his organization’s Palestinian affiliate and “has no right to speak or publish on their behalf.”

    The east Jerusalem troop last month hosted a course dedicated to Baha Alyan — one of two Palestinian attackers who shot and stabbed passengers on a Jerusalem bus last October.

    The son of an American-Israeli man killed in the attack had appealed to the world scouting movement to expel the Palestinian scouting association.


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