Following are excerpts from a birthday party organized by Al-Jazeera TV for released Lebanese terrorist Samir Al-Quntar. Al-Jazeera TV aired this segment on July 19, 2008
Interviewer: Brother Samir, we would like to celebrate your birthday with you. You deserve even more than this. I think that 11,000 prisoners – if they can see this program now – are celebrating your birthday with you. Happy birthday, brother Samir.
Samir Al-Quntar: Thank you.
Interviewer: Go ahead... There is a picture here... If the camera can show this... Let's cut it... Does the camera show this clearly or not? We have a picture here... This is the sword of the Arabs, Samir. Don't cut the picture, cut on the side.
Samir Al-Quntar: Here's Abu Qassam [Marwan Barghouti].
Interviewer: Marwan is here.
Samir Al-Quntar: Abu Qassam is here with Ahmad Sa'dat. That's our prison warden...
Interviewer: This one?
Samir Al-Quntar: Yes.
Interviewer: What is the warden's name?
Samir Al-Quntar: His name is... Never mind.
Interviewer: This is when you were released. Here you are with Wafiq Safa.
Samir Al-Quntar: Yes, this is Wafiq Safa. This is the most beautiful picture – with Hassan Nasrallah. This is the most beautiful picture. There cannot be anything more beautiful. Me and the secretary-general – the most beautiful picture of me ever taken.