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Body in French river Israeli official, police say
Australian Broadcasting Commission ^ | Feb 25 2007 | anon

Posted on 02/24/2007 8:03:10 PM PST by BlackVeil

French police say a body found in a river in northern France is that of a missing Israeli defence ministry official.

DNA tests proved the dead man found in the River Seine near Rouen on Wednesday was David Dahan, head of the Israeli Defence Ministry Mission to Europe.

Mr Dahan disappeared from his Paris home on January 22.

Police say they are treating the incident as a possible suicide and Mr Dahan had suffered depression in the past.

His wife and child live in Israel.

Israeli defence officials were not immediately available for a comment.

The Israeli Defence Ministry Mission buys military equipment in Europe.

The mission used to be based in central Paris but was hit by a car bomb in 1982 and is now situated in a suburb.

- Reuters


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Israel
KEYWORDS: 200701; 20070122; dahan; daviddahan; france; israel; israelimission; mossad; spy
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I wonder about the 'suicide' explanation. That is probably a cover up. It seems to me, that a man like that would most probably shoot himself, if he had decided to end his life. Drowning oneself is quite difficult, if one knows how to swim.
1 posted on 02/24/2007 8:03:14 PM PST by BlackVeil
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To: BlackVeil

Mark.

Hopefully there will be more information in the morning.


2 posted on 02/24/2007 8:04:06 PM PST by Peach (The Clintons' pardoned more terrorists than they ever captured or killed.)
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Ah ... I think that there will be less information in the morning. Every buried, put away quietly.

In the 1980s, there were a series of scientists in Europe working for the Iraqi govt, on contract, for a 'super gun' project. They all fell over and died.

This Israeli guy was in a dangerous line of work. "Depression" indeed. Probably there is a depression on his skull where they knocked him out before throwing him into the river. It might be linked with the current campaign against Iran ...


3 posted on 02/24/2007 8:09:18 PM PST by BlackVeil
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To: BlackVeil

mark for updates


4 posted on 02/24/2007 8:09:45 PM PST by RDTF (They should have put down Barbarella instead of Barbaro)
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To: BlackVeil

***In the 1980s, there were a series of scientists in Europe working for the Iraqi govt, on contract, for a 'super gun' project. They all fell over and died. ***

Gerald Bull comes to mind.


5 posted on 02/24/2007 8:29:46 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: BlackVeil

sounds fishy to me...someone besides the French should investigate, after all they support anyone against Israel.


6 posted on 02/24/2007 8:31:59 PM PST by Jewels1091
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To: BlackVeil

Borat declined comment through his lawyer.


7 posted on 02/24/2007 8:34:17 PM PST by RichInOC (No! BAD Rich!)
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Police say they are treating the incident as a possible suicide and
Mr Dahan had suffered depression in the past.


Jewish?
Israeli?
And have to work in France?

Heck, I'd be depressed too!!!
8 posted on 02/24/2007 8:36:33 PM PST by VOA
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Prayers up for the widow and child of David Dahan.

The article is from Reuters, and Reuters can be trusted as much as Hillary. Death by suicide seems like a very far fetched solution considering Dahan's job occupation and the country he was working in.

9 posted on 02/24/2007 8:42:10 PM PST by xJones
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I presume this is a suicide like all the Friends-of-Bill suicides, e.g., gunshot wounds to the head with no powder burns. Easy to explain stuff like that.


10 posted on 02/24/2007 8:48:53 PM PST by Rembrandt (We would have won Viet Nam w/o Dim interference.)
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To: BlackVeil

Another Israeli charity worker was killed a few months ago, possibly in eastern Russia. I have forgotten the exact city, but it is suspiciously like the PLO killing of the Jewish Joint Distribution Committee official Charles Gordon? in Czechoslovakia in the 1970's or early 1980's. This was in conjunction with the KGB/Czech secret police, the STB.

I wouldn't be surprised that Islamofascists are now working to pick off Israeli and Jewish diplomatic, military and charitable officials as a way of forcing them to stop their work.

Suspected Black Muslims here in DC killed Israeli military attache Allon in the early 1980's, in Silver Spring. The triggerman in the killing of Iranian exile leader Ali Tabatabi in the Silver Spring area was a Black Muslim who is now a movie star in Iran.

Watch for future killings to see if there is a pattern of assassinations designed to look like suicides or robberies.


11 posted on 02/24/2007 9:37:09 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper (Madmax, the Grinning Reaper)
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Is there a high bridge over this river Seine? Generally jumpers off the Golden Gate Bridge succeed in killing themselves. At a certain velocity hitting the water surface is almost like hitting cement.


12 posted on 02/24/2007 9:44:27 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck
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A Jewish man, found dead in a river, in France, doesn't bring suicide immediately to mind, especially an Israeli Defense minister.


13 posted on 02/24/2007 10:15:51 PM PST by RegulatorCountry
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Generally jumpers off the Golden Gate Bridge succeed in killing themselves. At a certain velocity hitting the water surface is almost like hitting cement.

Indeed, and Sydney Harbour Bridge is the same.

But the bridges are not high in France, they are old traditional bridges, also, this guy went into the river not in Paris, but near Rouen. It would be like jumping off a garden gate into a low river.

His car was found, locked and empty, nearby. They say now he may have left a note. But there are many grounds to be suspicious, and in the past, several suspicious suicides in France were later found to be unnatural deaths.

14 posted on 02/24/2007 10:46:33 PM PST by BlackVeil
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To: RegulatorCountry; HiTech RedNeck; Rembrandt; Jewels1091; Ruy Dias de Bivar; Peach
All the media are running the suicide story, but I remain suspicious. To reconstruct events, he disappeared from his home in Paris around Jan 22, and then drove to Rouen, where his car and his body were recently found.

But if he wanted to jump in the river and drown himself, he could have done that in Paris. Drowning is a very untypical way of committing suicide for a man who has done military service (because it is difficult, and so much easier to shoot yourself.) It is a favorite method of covering up a murder, because the body is usually very decomposed when found.

Initial assessments indicated that Dahan may have committed suicide following a personal crisis. His family has been notified. Jerusalem Post

From other reports:

Dahan disappeared from his Paris home on January 22.

Dahan’s car was found in Rouen soon after his disappearance.

So the car was found, but not the body.

Police sources had previously said a letter left by Dahan at home suggested he was depressed and may have committed suicide.

15 posted on 02/24/2007 10:53:41 PM PST by BlackVeil
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16 posted on 02/25/2007 5:15:42 AM PST by SJackson (restoring the Jews to their homeland is a noble dream shared by many Americans, A Lincoln)
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"Watch for future killings to see if there is a pattern of assassinations designed to look like suicides or robberies."

As the Aircraft carriers line up in the Gulf...expect more..I suspect that, the recent train crash in the UK, has a "terrorist smell" as well.....it is possible that the Brits called home 1600 troops from Iraq, as home guard...and, the VP going down to Australia, rather unusual, I can't recall a previous VP, taking in the sights of Canberra....
17 posted on 02/25/2007 5:30:45 AM PST by thinking
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"...In the 1980s, there were a series of scientists in Europe working for the Iraqi govt, on contract, for a 'super gun' project. They all fell over and died..."

Yuppers! Gerald Bull fell over and died in Montreal, (?) Canada from lead poisoning (Mossad).

He (they) were building the super-gun for Saddamm ............ FRegards

18 posted on 02/25/2007 2:11:28 PM PST by gonzo (I'm not confused anymore. Now I'm sure we have to completely destroy Islam, and FAST!!)
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Nope, Gerald Bull was killed outside his apartment in Europe, Belgium, I think.


19 posted on 02/25/2007 2:13:35 PM PST by Former Proud Canadian (How do I change my screen name after Harper's election?)
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***Nope, Gerald Bull was killed outside his apartment in Europe, Belgium, I think.***

Correct! He was killed in Belgium .......... FRegards


20 posted on 02/25/2007 2:22:21 PM PST by gonzo (I'm not confused anymore. Now I'm sure we have to completely destroy Islam, and FAST!!)
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