The president of the Palestinian Authority (PA), Mahmoud Abbas, condemned both the Israeli raid and the withdrawal of the western prison monitors.

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The first small step came in May, when a military-civilian court sentenced two dozen soldiers to prison terms of up to ten years for killing an Islamic teacher and 56 students in a raid on a boarding school in West Aceh.

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The burglar told Mrs Womwell he carried out the raid because "it's my job" and that he had been in and out of prison since the age of 15.

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