Mossad Said to Have Used Poison Chocolates
From Times Wire Reports
The Mossad secret service agency killed a Palestinian wanted for airplane hijackings by feeding him poisoned Belgian chocolate over six months in the late 1970s, said the author of a new book, “Striking Back.â€
In the book, Jerusalem’s Time magazine correspondent Aaron Klein describes how Israel tracked down Wadia Haddad, of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, in Baghdad. Klein said the 309-pound Haddad was cautious of his every move, but had a weakness: chocolate.
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