Monday, May 08, 2006

Death by chocolate ?

Literally- according to an item in the Daily Telegraph today. Wadia Haddad, a Palestinian wanted for plane hijackings, and with a passion for chocolate, was supplied with poison chocolates the Mossad, Israel's secret service, for 6 months before his death. This claim, is a book recently published in Israel, has been refuted by the Angry Arab News Service which I found on a Google* search for more information on this story. The AANS suggests the claim is for "pure propaganda purposes". It says Haddad was killed by Saddam's intelligence service - and this, AASN goes on, was the same conclusion reached by the East German government which carried out an investigation at the time (late 1970s).
* I'm not sure why surprisingly few results on the book were returned in the search - maybe the search parameters I was using?

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