All flotilla activists to be deported

           PM Netanyahu decides not to prosecute the 680 Gaza protest flotilla detainees, who are to be sent to Turkey and Jordan and then proceed to their countries of origin. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu decided Monday that Israel will not prosecute or continue to hold the participants it captured from the Gaza protest flotilla, despite earlier indications from Israel that some of those who attacked the Israeli soldiers boarding the ships will be prosecuted. Earlier, the Cabinet Ministers discussed the release, and accused Turkish Prime Minister Taip Erdwan in taking a progressively hardening anti-Israeli stance for years. The cabinet will reconvene Tuesday to continue discussing the affair. The detainees will start leaving Israel on Monday night, the process taking about 48 hours. Those of Turkish origin will be flown home on several planes that Turkey sent and have already arrived in Ben-Gurion Airport, and the rest of the group will be deported to Jordan by the Israeli Military Police. The largest group of protesters came from Turkey (380). The rest of the group of nearly 700 protesters came from UK, Greece and Jordan, with other Arab, European and Islamic countries such as Indonesia contributing small numbers. (13,13)