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The quest for the red prince: the inside story of Israel's relentless manhunt for one of the world's deadliest and most wanted Arab terrorists
by Michael Bar-Zohar, Eitan Haber, 1983
Bar-Zohar, the biographer of Ben Gurion, writes about the Israeli campaign to assassinate Ali Hassan Salameh, a Palestinian who oversaw the Black September Organization from 1970 until his murder by car bomb in 1979.
The book also discusses General ...
#22855 An Eye For An Eye
by Bob Simon in CBS, 21 November 2000
Prime Minister Golda Meir called in Zvi Zamir, the chief of the Mossad, Israel's intelligence service. He has never spoken about this publicly.
"Golda wanted very much, that the people will be brought to trial. But she realized that this is impos ...
#37344 American Ambassador Recalls Israeli Assassination Attempt—With U.S. Weapons
by Andrew I. Killgore in WRMEA (Washington Report on Middle East Affairs), November 2002
Just before John Gunther Dean was to appear before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for his confirmation hearing as American ambassador to Lebanon in 1978 he received an urgent telephone call from the office of the secretary of state. “John,” t ...
#114111 A master and the myths of Munich
by Neal Ascherson in The Observer, 15 January 2006
Apart from the opening at the Olympics and recurrent flashbacks to the scenes at Furstenfeldbruck, Munich is not tied to historical facts - less so than Spielberg was in Schindler's List. There was, indeed, an 'Operation Wrath of God', ...