Jericho prisoners 'will be in Israel for a long time'

Israeli officials said today that they are determined to put Palestinian prisoners seized from a West Bank jail on trial for the killing of an Israeli Cabinet minister, but will first have to overcome some legal hurdles.

Ahmed Saadat, leader of the radical Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and five other Palestinians wanted by Israel were caught in an Israeli raid yesterday on the prison in the West Bank town of Jericho.