Word: amirs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Yitzhak Rabin, Shin Bet faces new allegations that one of the young religious zealots arrested for involvement in the murder was actually an informer on the service's own payroll. According to Israeli intelligence sources, the informer never told Shin Bet if he had heard the accused assassin, Yigal Amir, threaten to kill Rabin. A state commission of inquiry is delving into the service's failure to protect Israel's leader from homegrown fanaticism, but regardless of the findings, the stature and morale of the Shin Bet have already been shattered...
Saro-Wiwa was not killed by a little-known individual. Even today we fail to truly comprehend the vicious crimes committed by Lee Harvey Oswald and Yigal Amir. We are horrified to contemplate that their actions were possibly sanctioned by greater authorities in their respective countries...
...Israel it is customary for confessed murderers to re-enact their crimes, and Amir performed so smoothly that there can be no doubt about what he did and how he did it. What kind of help he had, however, is still unresolved. Security forces keep proclaiming the assassination sprang from a conspiracy, but they have yet to offer hard evidence of the theory. Police and secret-service interrogators have spent days questioning the eight young religious zealots in custody, yet they do not seem to have found proof of an organized network acting on orders from any hierarchy...
...female student at Bar Ilan University, was the latest suspect to be arrested. When she was taken to court, police described her as a "central and dominant figure" and part of the "inner circle" with the other three. But intelligence sources say Har-Shefi, a friend of Amir's, was most likely to be guilty only of teasing him to follow through on his boasts about killing Rabin...
...acknowledged leader of the secretive extremist group Eyal, was released under house arrest, indicating he was probably not involved in the assassination itself. It is thought he may have turned state's witness. But investigators are not finding it easy to crack all the suspects. While some, like Hagai Amir, quickly told police what they wanted to know, Yigal has offered only intermittent cooperation aside from his confession, and others are not breaking down as hoped. The investigators have long experience successfully grilling Palestinians, but they cannot apply the same harsh psychological and physical methods to Israelis: the law forbids...