Word: yassin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...AFTER the attack on Goldenberg's, it is possible to look back on events more dispassionately. Mitterrand's "radical elements" theory seems to hold water. Police have since dug up evidence linking the restaurant assassins to a PLO splinter group even more extreme in its demands than PLO leader Yassin Arafat. Simone Weil, a former minister and Auschwitz survivor has explained. "I truly do not believe the French are anti-Semitic. There are people in the world trying to destabilize our democracies. In France, Jews are the most obvious target...
...Israeli charges against Abu Eain were based on the testimony of Jamil Yassin, an admitted member of the Palestine Liberation Organization who was arrested for a string of bombings, including the Tiberias explosion, in June 1979. Israeli soldiers found in Yassin's home in Ramallah what one Israeli security officer described as a "bomb factory, pure and simple." Yassin confessed that he built the bomb and recruited Abu Eain to plant it in Tiberias. Yassin was sentenced to life imprisonment, but Abu Eain had already fled Ramallah to visit a sister in Chicago. Israeli officials asked...
...time Abu Eain's hearing was held in Chicago before Federal Magistrate Olga Jurco in the fall of 1979, Yassin had repudiated his testimony and insisted that Abu Eain was not involved in the bombing. Abu Eain, moreover, produced affidavits from a dozen friends and relatives, who swore that at the time of the bombing he was in Ramallah, a two-hour drive from Tiberias. Jurco nevertheless ruled that there was "probable cause" to believe that Abu Eain may be guilty; in effect, she held that the conflicting evidence should properly be aired in an Israeli court. The judge...