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DIED. PETER MALKIN, 77, veteran Israeli Mossad agent who in 1960 captured Adolf Eichmann--the chief architect of the Holocaust and coiner of the term "final solution"--from a street outside Buenos Aires; of complications from an infection; in New York City. So repulsed that he wore gloves, Malkin approached Eichmann, then living under an assumed name, with the greeting "un momentito, seńor" before wrestling him to the ground and into a waiting car. The agents later smuggled him to Israel, where he was convicted of crimes against humanity and hanged in 1962. In a book he wrote about...
...Habib ’07 is a social studies concentrator in Pforzheimer House. When not writing for the English-language Daily Star, she spends her time teaching William M. Rasmussen ’04 how to say, “I swear I am not a CIA or Mossad agent” in Arabic and picking up bad Lebanese habits like smoking Marlboro Lights, drinking highly caffeinated tea and sleeping in the afternoon...
...major piece on late-term abortion policy. More text messages confirm the story on Indonesian terrorism is on its way. But a call from New Zealand correspondent Claire Harvey changes everything: Helen Clark's government has announced it's cutting ties with Israel following the jailing of two alleged Mossad spies for passport fraud. Whittaker's thrilled: "I think we've got a story that will get us out of trouble." Harvey rings back to confirm the sentence involves a donation to charity. "This has got it all," Whittaker tells her. "We have to go gang-busters on this." Within...
...antiunion stance and outspokenness, Adelson isn't exactly the most popular guy in town. But the son of a Boston cabby doesn't have to worry much about drawing a crowd; almost everywhere he and his wife Miriam go, they are escorted by a contingent of ex-Mossad Israeli intelligence agents. Even for Adelson, some things are better not left to chance...
...Editorial, “Assassination Doesn’t Work,” March 25), the moral critique that the editors put forth is unfounded and inaccurate. First, Israel had previously jailed Yassin, but he was freed in an unfortunate prisoner exchange with Jordan in 1997 after two Israeli Mossad agents were captured in Jordan following a botched assassination attempt. Second, arresting the spiritual leader of a militant group that virtually controls large areas of the Gaza strip is a near-impossible task that puts many lives—both Israeli and Palestinian—at risk. Finally, although circumstances...