The coronavirus jailbreak is underway with blue states and lefty politicians freeing as many prisoners as they can (even as they try to shut down gun stores to prevent homeowners and small business owners from protecting themselves against this wave of criminals.)

And every scumbag is jumping on board with the jailbreak. Including the Prince of Marbella.

Monzer Al Kassar

Once known as “the Proud Peacock,” the flamboyant Syrian-born arms dealer made his money selling weapons and military equipment to terrorists, fueling fighting in place like Iraq, Iran, Africa, Eastern Europe, Central America and elsewhere. He was finally nabbed in 2007 and sentenced to 30 years in prison. Now, after 13 years inside, the 74-year-old wants a compassionate release, claiming he suffers from spinal stenosis, diabetes, hypertension and other ailments. He’s not due to be out until 2033.

That’s a very capsule summary.

Al-Kassar was finally busted for agreeing to sell weapons to the Marxist narcoterrorists of FARC, but he’s had an extensive history with Islamic terrorists. 

He has been accused of many transgressions: fuelling conflicts in the Balkans and Somalia, procuring components of Chinese anti-ship cruise missiles for Iran, supplying the Iraqi Army on the eve of the U.S. invasion in 2003, and using a private jet to spirit a billion dollars out of Iraq and into Lebanon for Saddam Hussein.  (He was “one of the main sources of financial and logistics support” for the insurgency, an Iraqi official said.) Expelled from England, and convicted in absentia on terrorism charges in France, for supplying explosives that were used in a 1982 attack on a restaurant in the Jewish Quarter in Paris, he had been a wanted man for thirty years.

The grand salon was decorated with framed photographs that showed him posing with Saddam Hussein’s son Uday, and with his longtime friend Abu Abbas, the former head of the Palestine Liberation Front, who was responsible for hijacking the Italian cruise ship the Achille Lauro, in 1985. 

In 1989, Tomkins says, Kassar asked him to set up a phony arms company in an office in Amsterdam, and contact a potential buyer with a list of items for sale. The buyers worked for Israeli intelligence. Kassar predicted that they would be interested in only one of the products on the list: ammunition for a type of Russian tank that the Israeli-backed Lebanese Christians had recently captured from Syria. Kassar didn’t tell Tomkins about the operation’s ultimate purpose, relaying only the next step: rent an office, make this phone call. But it gradually emerged that Kassar planned to lure two Mossad agents to the Amsterdam office, where they would be ambushed by hit men from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. (Kassar had long-standing ties with several Palestinian terror groups; a U.S. congressional report once referred to him as “the Banker of the PLO.”)

In 1992, Kassar was arrested in Madrid. A Spanish magistrate announced that he had been implicated in the Palestine Liberation Front’s 1985 hijacking of the Achille Lauro, which led to the murder of a wheelchair-bound American, Leon Klinghoffer. One of the plot’s conspirators, who was being held in an Italian prison, had told investigators that the AK-47 assault rifles and hand grenades used in the attack had been supplied by an elegantly dressed man named “Kazer.” The authorities showed him a photograph, and he identified Kassar.

There’s a lot more where that came from. 

The DEA finally took him down. Now he’s trying to use the coronavirus to get out.