(Jerusalem Post) - The man who killed Meir Kahane in 1990 claims he did not carry out the shooting alone, as previously thought, but was part of a three-man terrorist cell with links to al-Qaeda. Its original target was then housing minister Ariel Sharon, according to a newly-leaked FBI report. El-Sayyid Nosair told detectives in 2005 "that Ariel Sharon was his original target and that he went to a hotel prior to Sharon's coming to visit." On the night he shot Kahane dead, he was accompanied by two co-conspirators to the hotel in Manhattan where Kahane was speaking - one of whom was also carrying a gun. The men, Bilal al-Kaisi of Jordan and Mohammed Salameh, a Palestinian currently jailed in the U.S. for his involvement in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, have never been charged for their part in the slaying.
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