Word: barsimantov
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...Revolutionary ^ Factions (known as F.A.R.L.), a group that since 1981 had made eight attacks on Americans or Israelis in Europe. The agencies further contended that he was a mastermind of international terror who had arranged the killings of Assistant U.S. Military Attache Charles Robert Ray and Israeli Diplomat Yacov Barsimantov in Paris in 1982 and tried to murder U.S. Consul General Robert Homme in Strasbourg...
...F.A.R.L. in Lebanon captured a hostage, Gilles Peyroles, director of the French Cultural Center. The French reportedly entered into secret negotiations to swap Abdallah for Peyroles. Then, just a day after Peyroles was released, police found in an apartment Abdallah had rented the pistol that killed Ray and Barsimantov...
...serving a four-year sentence in Lyons for illegally possessing weapons and false identity papers. Abdallah's fingerprints were also discovered in an apartment found to contain the Czech-made pistol used in the 1982 Paris killings of U.S. Military Attache Charles Robert Ray and Israeli Diplomat Yacov Barsimantov. French authorities, however, say they still lack sufficient evidence to try him in connection with those cases. Persistent rumors that the French might be considering his release have led the U.S to voice its opposition to such a move...
...seemed tragically askew. In Israel, however, many officials and ordinary citizens felt the raids were an appropriate response to the coldblooded shooting of Argov. It was the latest in a series of attacks on Israeli envoys. On April 3, an Israeli embassy official in Paris named Ya'acov Barsimantov, who was said to be particularly well informed about P.L.O. activities in Europe, was fatally shot outside of his apartment by an unidentified woman. Only three days earlier, the offices of the Israeli military attaché in Paris had been sprayed with machine-gun fire...
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