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World Scout Movement to Investigate Palestinian Branch over Glorifying Killer
(JTA) The Palestinian Scout Association, which was accepted six months ago as a full member of the World Organization of the Scout Movement, named a leadership training course after the killer of Richard Lakin, a dual American and Israeli citizen. Last week, Lakin's son, Micah Lakin Avni, sent a letter alerting the world scouting organization that the Palestinian training course is named in memory of Baha Alyan, who along with an accomplice carried out a stabbing spree aboard a Jerusalem bus on Oct. 13, 2015, that left Lakin, 76, and two other Israelis dead and 10 injured. Publicity for the course describes Alyan as a "martyr" and shows him in a Palestinian scouts uniform. "We are definitely investigating," Srinath Venugopal, executive director at the World Scout Bureau's office of the secretary general, told AFP. "Please be assured that the World Organization of the Scout Movement is not supportive of any terrorist activities."