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Higgins was returning from a meeting in Tyre with Abdel Majid Saleh, an Amal political leader in the area, Saleh told reporters. Efforts to free foreign hostages were among their topics, he said...
...Israeli military censors immediately banned publication of the photos, but the editor of Hadashot, a Tel Aviv daily, took one of the pictures to Banny Shuiel, the village in the Israeli-occupied Gaza Strip from which the terrorists came. Relatives quickly identified the shackled man in the photo as Majid Abu-Gumaa, one of the four dead Palestinians. Only after the New York Times published an account of doubts about how the deaths occurred did Defense Minister Arens ask a retired army major general, Meir Zorea, to lead an inquiry...
...Majid Abu-Gumaa and his cousin, Subhi Abu-Gumaa, had received "severe blows to the head and body" during the assault on the bus. But the two Arabs were still alive when security men took them to an adjacent field for questioning about whether or not the bus was booby-trapped for a delayed explosion. At some point be tween the retaking of the bus and the end of the interrogation, each man suffered "a blow dealt to the back of the head by a blunt instrument," fracturing the skull and killing...
Israeli military censors have banned the publication of both pictures. But Hadashot Editor Yossi Klein took Libak's photograph to Banny Shuiel, a village in the Israeli-occupied Gaza Strip from which the terrorists came. Relatives and neighbors immediately identified the handcuffed man in the picture as Majid Abu-Gumaa, one of the four terrorists. On the other hand, Klein also showed the photo to the bus driver and four passengers; all five said that the man was not one of the terrorists. "I can't say the matter is clear-cut either way," Klein told TIME Jerusalem...
...Crusades even now is reflected in the snipings, kidnapings and crossfire that recur in the mountains between Christian and Muslim militias. Part of this legacy is a penchant for violence, a belief that the gun as much as the cross is a source of salvation. Says Professor Majid Fakhri of the American University of Beirut: "There is something very medieval about the Christian outlook. A type of feudalism exists in which politics and religion are intertwined in a literal...