Posted on 02/14/2010 12:27:25 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
Israeli legal group sues North Korea over 1972 terror attack
By Zohar Blumenkrantz
An Israeli human rights organization is filing a lawsuit against North Korea over a 1972 terrorist attack at Ben-Gurion International Airport that left more than 20 people dead and over 50 wounded, Haaretz has learned.
The attack, known as the Lod Airport massacre, was carried out by three members of the Japanese Red Army on behalf of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The victims included 16 Christian pilgrims from Puerto Rico, and Israeli professor and biophysicist Aharon Katzir.
While two of the terrorists were killed over the course of the attack - one of them committing suicide - the third, Kozo Okamoto, was captured and sentenced to life in prison.
Okamoto was subsequently released from Israeli prison 13 years later, in 1985, as part of the Jibril prisoner exchange deal - one of the 1,150 security prisoners released in exchange for three Israelis captured during the first Lebanon war.
The lawsuit against North Korea stems from claims it sponsored the PFLP and the Japanese Red Army, providing material support to both organizations and assistance in planning the attack. The three terrorists arrived on an Air France flight from Paris and drew automatic guns and hand grenades, firing randomly at anybody in sight once their luggage came through the baggage claim.
(Excerpt) Read more at haaretz.com ...
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They sued in a US Federal Court in Puerto Rico. I guess we are footing the court costs for this.
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I got question what going happen if Israel win everybody know North Korea govt has no name except Chia Pet
I would like to sue NK for making their populace so poor they have to eat grass.
But I would probably have as much success collecting damages as Our Israeli friends will. (sigh)
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