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“ Arafat, meanwhile, also kept Israel's support network, the U.S., in his sights. On March 1, 1973, another eight-member Black September cell raided the Saudi embassy in Khartoum, Sudan, taking as captives two American government officials, Ambassador Cleo Noel and the Charge d'Affaires George Curtis Moore, as well as a Belgian diplomat named Guy Eid. The terrorists demanded the release of Sirhan Sirhan in California (jailed for the 1968 slaying of Robert F. Kennedy) . . .” http://www.nationalreview.com/mccarthy/mccarthy200411120827.asp I did not know this. Does this fact then categorize Sirhan as a political or war prisoner rather than and making him something above a criminal? John [This message has been edited by Huan Yi (11-14-2004 03:25 AM).] |
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