[yatros from flatwater]

Well, I'm not sure if this is meaningful, but the suicide pilot's surname was Bishop, changed from Bishara, the Kennedy assassin's middlename.

Both harbored hatred for Jews and saw striking at the U.S. as suitable vengeance.

[yatros from flatwater]

Oh, well. Never mind. More distant cousins than first believed.

Metzer terrorist Sirhan probably not related to Kennedy assassin

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The Associated Press

Nov. 13, 2002

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Israeli officials on Wednesday identified the gunman who carried out the bloody attack on Kibbutz Metzer as Sirhan Sirhan, a 19-year-old Al Aqsa gunman from the Tulkarm refugee camp.

The officials initially said they believed he was a distant relative of the assassin by the same name who killed Sen. Robert Kennedy in 1968 - but later withdrew that claim.

Relatives of the suspected gunman said they had no blood ties to the Kennedy assassin who came from the predominantly Christian village of Taibeh in the West Bank.

The Sirhans in the Tulkarm camp are Muslims. Earlier this week, Israeli troops searched the homes of Sirhan clan members and detained two uncles of the suspected gunman.

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