(Washington Times) Patrick Hruby - Nearly four decades ago, Israeli military attache Joseph Alon was shot five times in the driveway of his Chevy Chase home, and one of the bullets pierced his heart. The ongoing mystery surrounding the death of Alon, one of the few foreign diplomats slain on American soil, is explored in the Israeli documentary "Who Shot My Father? The Story of Joe Alon," which made its American debut Tuesday as part of the Washington Jewish Film Festival. Fred Burton, a former State Department counterterrorism agent, recently wrote a book about his lifelong effort to crack the unsolved case. In his book, Burton claims that he knows who shot Alon.
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