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Paris Synagogue Blast Echoes Across the Years


(Ottawa Citizen-Canada) Chris Cobb - France is fighting to extradite an Ottawa academic with alleged links to the bombing of the Copernic Synagogue in Paris in 1980. The French allege that one of the five Palestinian terrorists is Hassan Diab, 56, an Ottawa university professor. The powerful bomb, planted inside the saddlebag of a motorcycle outside the synagogue, killed four passersby on rue Copernic, injured 40 and narrowly missed killing dozens of children who were about to leave the building after a Friday evening service. Diab, a Lebanese-born Canadian citizen, was arrested two years ago at the request of the French government, which has applied for his extradition. The formal extradition hearing is now scheduled for Nov. 8.
2010-10-08 09:42:02
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