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January 14, 2013       Share:    

Source: http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/u-s-objects-to-planned-release-of-lebanese-terrorist-who-killed-u-s-israeli-diplomats-1.493493

U.S. Objects to Planned Release of Lebanese Terrorist Who Killed U.S., Israeli Diplomats

(Reuters-Ha'aretz) The U.S. objected on Friday to a French court's planned release of George Ibrahim Abdallah, sentenced to life imprisonment in 1987 for his role in the 1982 murders in Paris of U.S. military attache Charles Ray and Israeli diplomat Yacov Barsimantov, and the attempted murder of U.S. Consul General Robert Homme in Strasbourg in 1984. A French appeals court on Thursday granted conditional release to Abdallah, contingent on his being deported to Lebanon, a step in the hands of the French Foreign Ministry.

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