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Congressman Ed Royce: "For some years now you have a system [in the PA] where basically there's been an inducement to pay human assassins to seek out innocent people and kill them, and then a stipend is given for the time that those [Palestinian] individuals serve in custody [in Israeli prisons]..."

Excerpts from testimony by Assistant Secretary of State, Ambassador Anne W. Patterson at congressional subcommittee hearing: Congressman Weber: Ambassador Patterson, do you have a dollar figure on the amount of stipends... going to the terrorists in prison and the salaries? Assistant Secretary...