(Jewish Chronicle-UK) Lee Harpin - BBC World Service Director Jamie Angus has apologized for a "lapse of standards" after the broadcast on BBC Arabic TV of an uncritical interview with Palestinian terrorist Ahlam Al-Tamimi, who masterminded the Sbarro pizza restaurant attack in Jerusalem in 2001 in which 15 Israelis were killed. Tamimi had previously said she felt disappointed as she had "hoped for a larger toll." She was released from an Israeli prison as part of a prisoner exchange in 2011.
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