JAPANESE MILITANT WHO TOOK PART IN 1972 ISRAEL AIRPORT ATTACK DIES IN BEIRUT
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WHAT HAPPENED
Kozo Okamoto, the Japanese militant who took part in a deadly attack on Tel Aviv’s airport more than five decades ago, died on Thursday in Beirut, the Palestinian group that had been protecting him said. He was 78.
According to News - South China Morning Post, Kozo Okamoto, the Japanese militant who took part in a deadly attack on Tel Aviv’s airport more than five decades ago, died on Thursday in Beirut, the Palestinian group that had been protecting him said.
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- News - South China Morning Post: Kozo Okamoto, the Japanese militant who took part in a deadly attack on Tel Aviv’s airport more than five decades ago, died on Thursday in Beirut, the Palestinian group that had been protecting him said.
- News - South China Morning Post: The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a faction that is the second-largest group in the Palestine Liberation Organization, said that Okamoto had been ill for a long time.
- News - South China Morning Post: Okamoto, who made rare public appearances since he settled in Lebanon after being released from...
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