Posted on 07/21/2010 5:17:18 AM PDT by cll
Most victims of Lod Airport massacre were Puerto Rican pilgrims. Now, American court orders Pyongyang to pay $378 million to families as compensation
Ynet 7/21/2010 Israel news
[The United States District Court in Puerto Rico] has ordered North Korea to pay $378 million compensation to the families of those killed in the 1972 terror attack on Lod Airport (now known as Ben Gurion International Airport). The plaintiffs claimed that Pyongyang funded the training of the terrorists involved in the attack. South Korean news agency Yonhap reported that Justice Francisco A. Besosa of the US District Court in Puerto Rico ruled that North Korea must transfer the money to the families of two of the victims who were both US citizens. The attack left 26 people dead, including 16 Puerto Rican pilgrims.
In May 1972 three terrorists from the Japanese Red Army, working with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, brought automatic weapons, ammunition and grenades with them in their check-in bags on a flight from Italy to Israel.
After collecting their luggage, they opened fire in every direction, hitting passengers, flight crew members and airport personnel. Seventy-four people were injured in the attack. Israeli Professor Aharon Katzir, a top scientist at the Weizmann Institute, was among the dead. The terrorists also tried to bomb airplanes on the ground using hand grenades.
One of the terrorists was killed by security forces, another committed suicide, and the third, Kozo Akumoto was arrested and jailed in Israel. He was released in 1985 as part of the Jibril Agreement.
Ping.
Good luck collecting.
Ships and planes can be arrested to go toward the judgment.
So who was the top nork crazy guy 40 years ago? And why did they get involved on an attack on Israel? Because they saw it as a cheap way to hit the US?
You have to pull the hyena’s teeth before you can clip it.
The beast has many faces.
Hey, no problem, PRNK has lots of US Dollars, I hear they are near perfect copies.
Idiots.
Timely decision.
$378 million must be the entire GDP of PRNK for the next 10 years. So you are right. They will have to fire up the printing presses.
Most victims of Lod Airport massacre were Puerto Rican pilgrims. Now, American court orders Pyongyang to pay $378 million to families as compensation.Let's just wipe NK off the face of the Earth and call it even.
If I recall correctly, I believe Jose Miguel Agrelot was one of the travelers at Lod Airport that day.
I may be wrong.
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