Yosef Alon: Difference between revisions

Due to a lead developed years earlier by journalist [[Adam Goldman]], the FBI reopened the case in January 2017.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/MAGAZINE-nyt-fbi-reopens-israeli-military-attach-assassination-case-1.5483574|title=FBI Reopens Israeli Military Attaché Assassination Case, NYT Reports|date=January 9, 2017|work=Haaretz|access-date=July 15, 2019|last=Aderet|first=Ofer|language=en}}</ref> The new investigation involves information recently given to an agent by Venezuelan terrorist [[Carlos the Jackal]], that sometime after 1970 three American veterans sympathetic to the Palestinian cause,<ref name=GoldmanCaseRevived>{{cite news|last1=Goldman|first1=Adam|title=I Wrote to Carlos the Jackal, and an Israeli's Assassination Case Was Revived|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/08/us/politics/carlos-the-jackal-yosef-alon-assassination-israel.html?_r=0|access-date=10 January 2017|work=New York Times|date=8 January 2017}}</ref> one of them a "prominent former [[Black Panther Party|Black Panther]]," approached Mahmoud Ould Saleh, a [[Mauritania]]-born manager of the Arabic Bookshop on the Rue Saint Victor in the [[Latin Quarter]] of Paris and member of the extremist Palestinian "rejection front" (killed in 1977.)<ref name="PalestinianMilitant">{{cite news|title=PLO Accuses 'zionist Agents' of Killing Palestinian Militant|url=http://www.jta.org/1977/01/05/archive/plo-accuses-zionist-agents-of-killing-palestinian-militant|access-date=10 January 2017|publisher=JTA|date=5 January 1977}}</ref><ref name="Bookstore">{{cite news|title=Former PLO Aide Killed Leaving Bookstore|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1977/01/04/archives/former-plo-aide-in-paris-killed-leaving-bookstore.html|access-date=10 January 2017|publisher=NewYorkTimes|date=4 January 1977}}</ref> Saleh put them in touch with suspected [[Black September Organization|Black September]] militant Kamal Kheir Beik (later killed), known to have managed terror attacks including the 1975 [[OPEC siege]].<ref name=GoldmanCaseRevived/> Every sale of the gun identified as the murder weapon, a .38-caliber revolver, that was sold east of the [[Mississippi]], has previously been identified by the FBI, which is now tracing the purchasers of those guns.<ref name=GoldmanCaseRevived/>