REPORT BLAMES GUARDS, URGES PENALTIES IN SLAYING OF RABIN.Byline: Joel Greenberg The New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times A government inquiry into the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin The assassination of Yitzhak Rabin took place on November 4 1995 at 21:30, at the end of a rally in support of the Oslo agreements at the Kings of Israel Square in Tel Aviv. concluded Thursday that the Shin Bet Noun 1. Shin Bet - the Israeli domestic counterintelligence and internal security agency; "the Shin Bet also handles overall security for Israel's national airline" General Security Services security service had failed to act on intelligence that a Jewish militant might try to kill the prime minister. Those leading the inquiry urged punitive measures against three Shin Bet officials and endorsed the resignations of two others, including the former director, but did not recommend criminal prosecution. In its 332-page report, the three-member commission said Rabin's bodyguards had expected that Jews might attack him with ``stones or tomatoes'' but not bullets. The panel, led by a former chief justice of the Supreme Court, Meir Shamgar, rejected suggestions that a conspiracy within the service had led to the killing, saying such claims had proven baseless. Yigal Amir, a right-wing militant opposed to Rabin's peace policies, was sentenced on Wednesday to life imprisonment Imprisonment See also Isolation. Alcatraz Island former federal maximum security penitentiary, near San Francisco; “escapeproof.” [Am. Hist.: Flexner, 218] Altmark, the German prison ship in World War II. [Br. Hist. for murdering Rabin, who was killed Nov. 4 after a peace rally in Tel Aviv, Israel. Summing up a four-month investigation and 61 hearings, the commission saddled the former head of the Shin Bet, Karmi Gilon, with much of the responsibility for the failure to protect Rabin. Gilon and the former head of the Shin Bet's security division have already resigned, steps that the commission said ``reflect our opinion.'' The panel also recommended the removal of the head of the VIP protection unit The Very Important Person Protection Unit (VIPPU 要員保護組) otherwise known as G4 (originally section G, division 4) is a branch of the Hong Kong Police Force. , the suspension of two other officials from command positions and the reprimand REPRIMAND, punishment. The censure which in some cases a public office pronounces against an offender. 2. This species of punishment is used by legislative bodies to punish their members or others who have been guilty of some impropriety of conduct towards them. of a senior police officer. In response to the report, Gilon disputed some of the findings, saying the commission had failed to grasp ``the unique problems of carrying out our missions, especially in the face of a Jewish terrorist and murderer who is our own flesh and blood, as citizens of a democracy.'' The report blamed the lax security on ``conceptual routine,'' in which security officials were more focused on threats of Arab violence than the possibility of an assassination Assassination See also Murder. assassins Fanatical Moslem sect that smoked hashish and murdered Crusaders (11th—12th centuries). [Islamic Hist.: Brewer Note-Book, 52] Brutus conspirator and assassin of Julius Caesar. [Br. by a Jewish gunman. From 1993, the year the Israeli-Palestinian accords were signed, there had been increasing reports of plots to assassinate as·sas·si·nate tr.v. as·sas·si·nat·ed, as·sas·si·nat·ing, as·sas·si·nates 1. To murder (a prominent person) by surprise attack, as for political reasons. 2. Rabin by right-wing Jewish extremists, the panel said. ``The Shin Bet had abundant information about the intensification of threats against the lives of prominent persons, first and foremost the prime minister,'' the report said. ``Neither the Shin Bet head nor the division or unit heads held any serious discussion to re-evaluate the method or to adapt the protection method to the increasing risk.'' |
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