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He was invited to a seminar on counter terrorism as a keynote speaker by the [[King's College London]] in 2007, but cancelled due to fears of being arrested for war crimes.<ref> [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7130594.stm Israeli avoids UK arrest threat],BBC News Online, 6th December 2007</ref> | He was invited to a seminar on counter terrorism as a keynote speaker by the [[King's College London]] in 2007, but cancelled due to fears of being arrested for war crimes.<ref> [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7130594.stm Israeli avoids UK arrest threat],BBC News Online, 6th December 2007</ref> | ||
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| + | * Barak Ravid, [http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/931835.html Dichter cancels U.K. trip over fears of 'war crimes' arrest], Haaretz, 6th December 2007 | ||
Revision as of 17:35, 6 December 2007
Avi Dichter, Israels Minister of Public Security, "was the domestic intelligence agency chief in 2002 when Israel bombed a Hamas military leader's house killing him, his bodyguard and 15 civilians." [1]
The BBC report,
- "The Shin Beth agency, headed by Mr Dichter between 2000 and 2005, helped plan the assassination of Hamas military commander Saleh Shehada in July 2002.
- Nine children were killed in the raid. A one-tonne bomb was dropped on Mr Shehada's house. The dead included his wife and his three children." [2]
He was invited to a seminar on counter terrorism as a keynote speaker by the King's College London in 2007, but cancelled due to fears of being arrested for war crimes.[3]
External Links
- Barak Ravid, Dichter cancels U.K. trip over fears of 'war crimes' arrest, Haaretz, 6th December 2007
