Witness in Sharon massacre trial killed by car bomb

rhisiart at earthlink.net rhisiart at earthlink.net
Fri Jan 25 03:38:23 PST 2002


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http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_1780000/1780946.stm

At 11:17 AM 1/25/2002 +0000, you wrote:
>Yeah I saw that. Convenient. Did anyone else want him
>dead, or would anyone else have been embarrassed by
>his revelations?
>
>Want to use this as an example to counter a friend's
>zionism, but need to make sure its watertight first.
>
> --- Hakki Alacakaptan <nucleus at superonline.com>
>wrote:
> > Just saw this on BBC. A Belgian parliamentary
> > committee had just interviewed
> > Hobeika on Tuesday and Hobeika announced yesterday
> > that he was going to make
> > big revelations at the trial.
> >
> > Hakki
> > ---------------------------------------------
> >
>http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_1779000/1779316.st
> > m
> > A former Lebanese Christian militia leader who was
> > accused of massacring
> > Palestinian refugees in the early 1980s has been
> > killed by a car bomb in
> > Beirut.
> > The assassination of Elie Hobeika sparked claims
> > from Lebanon and elsewhere
> > that his former ally, Israel, had carried out the
> > attack to stop him giving
> > evidence at an investigation in Belgium into the
> > massacres.
> >
> > Mr Hobeika said he feared for his life
> >
> > Israel has dismissed the allegations as "rubbish".
> > (...)
> > A Belgian court heard final arguments from lawyers
> > representing Mr Sharon on
> > Wednesday and is due to issue a ruling on 6 March.
> > (...)
> > Thursday's attacks marks the first major bombing in
> > religiously divided
> > Beirut since 1994, when 11 Christians were killed at
> > a church.
> > (...)
> >
>
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