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The would-be hitman in the alleged Iranian terror plot to assassinate one or more Israeli businessmen in Cyprus reportedly spied out potential targets at an office complex where multiple Israelis worked, Channel 12 news reported Monday night...According to Channel 12, the hired killer was of Azerbaijani origin and recently arrived in Cyprus on a flight from Russia using a Russian passport. Landing in Larnaca on the Cypriot southern side of the island he is said to have made his way to the Turkish-controlled city of Paralimni in the north where he rented a room and two vehicles...Citing Cypriot police suspicions,...

Channel Two on Saturday night broadcast a chilling preview of a diary kept by Ron Arad during the first weeks of his captivity in Lebanon, The full contents of the pages of the diary will be broadcast later this week on Channel Two's Uvda (Fact) program. The pages were apparently part of a diary that Arad kept in the hope that it would reach his loved ones -as indeed they did, 22 years after his disappearance over Lebanon, where he was shot down and captured by terrorists. The pages were returned to Israel three years ago by Lebanese terrorists as...

On Sunday the Israeli cabinet voted 22-3 in favor of a “prisoner” swap with Hezbollah. Israel, on its side of the bargain, won’t be receiving any prisoners but instead the corpses of Eldad Regev and Ehud Goldwasser, the two soldiers kidnapped by Hezbollah in 2006, along with partial, inadequate information on Ron Arad, the airman shot down over Lebanon in 1986. Hezbollah, for its part, gets five live terrorists including child-killer Samir Kuntar, dozens of corpses of terrorists, information on four Iranian diplomats who were detained by Christian Phalange forces in Lebanon in 1982, and live Palestinian terrorists whose number...

Israel has 'specific information' soldiers will be sent to Iran SPECIAL TO WORLD TRIBUNE.COM Friday, July 14, 2006 JERUSALEM — Iran plans to take two Israeli soldiers abducted by Hizbullah. Israeli officials said Hizbullah intends to transfer the Israeli soldiers captured on July 12 to Iran. They said the transfer would ensure that Israel could not win the release of the soldiers through military means. "We also have specific information that Hizbullah is planning to transfer the kidnapped soldiers to Iran," Foreign Minister deputy director-general Gideon Meir told a briefing on Thursday. Hours later, Iran denied that it wants the...

CNN, BBC and Eurosport refuse to air Arad campaign Turn down requests to air adds on missing navigator, after state and a foundation last week issued a $10 million reward for new information on his fate.Eitan Rabin MIA IAF navigator Ron Arad. Three major international networks – The BBC, CNN and Eurosport – are refusing to air adds of the “Born to be Free” foundation for the release of missing IAF navigator Ron Arad. Last week, the state and the foundation formally issued a 10 million dollar reward leading to either the return of Arad, or confirmation as to his...

Families of the 12 Missing Iranian Jews Petition High Court May 13, 2004 IMRA imra.org.il Families of the 12 Jews Missing in Iran to High Court: No Release Deal For Kuntar Without Info Concerning Our Loved Ones. This morning, May 13, 2004, at 10:00 am the families of 12 Jews who are missing in Iran, will petition the High Court of Justice to block the second part of the exchange deal with Hezbullah concerning Ron Arad. The families are demanding that Israel not release imprisoned Palestinian terrorist Samir Kuntar before obtaining information from Iran on the fate of their family...

Oct. 16, 2003 17th year of Arad abduction marked in Tel-Aviv By MATTHEW GUTMAN Ron Arad The 17th anniversary of the abduction of IAF navigator Lt.-Col. Ron Arad was commemorated Thursday evening in Tel Aviv, under increasing anxiety that the prisoner exchange with Hizbullah will not include information about the missing airman. IDF officials, politicians and artists attended the rally, to be held under the slogans "Ron. Hold on, my brother; and "No Ron, No Dirani." Chen Arad, Ron's brother, and Eliad Shraga, the Arad family lawyer, are slated to be among the speakers. Yoske Harari, head of the Fellowship...