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Oct. 4, 2003 IDF kills Metzer attack terrorist By ARIEH O'SULLIVAN Special Forces tracked down and killed Saturday the terrorist who sneaked into a kibbutz last November and gunned down five people including a mother and her two sons as she read them a bedtime story. Security forces have been on the trail of Sirhan Sirhan, a Fatah member, ever since he was able to escape from the attack. They finally caught up with him Saturday afternoon in the Tulkarum refugee camp. A unit from the Border Police undercover unit ambushed him as he road in a vehicle with two...

Supreme Court Rejects Appeal of Sirhan-Sirhan Sirhan Sirhan WASHINGTON — Sirhan Sirhan lost a U.S. Supreme Court appeal today. He sought to overturn his conviction in the assassination of U.S. Senator Robert Kennedy in 1968 in Los Angeles. The justices refused without comment to consider claims that Sirhan's defense lawyer was secretly working with the government to win his conviction. Sirhan's new attorney, Lawrence Teeter of Los Angeles, also argued unsuccessfully that a California judge who was a prosecutor in Sirhan's trial had tainted his appeals. Teeter said that colleagues of U.S. District Judge William Matthew Byrne Junior should have...