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Mossad in Lebanon (3/3): ‘How does one kill the nicest man in the world?’

While the region is being drawn deeper into a war, and Israel is stepping up its assassination operations, L’Orient-Le Jour takes a look back at the Israeli intelligence’s history in Lebanon, in a three-part series. Chapter three.

Mossad in Lebanon (3/3): ‘How does one kill the nicest man in the world?’

Illustration by Jaimee Lee Haddad.

It was 1973 in Lillehammer. In this Norwegian ski resort, 180 kilometers north of Oslo, Ahmad Bouchikhi, a young Moroccan waiter, was returning home with his pregnant wife after an evening at the movie theater. This modest couple led a quiet,...
It was 1973 in Lillehammer. In this Norwegian ski resort, 180 kilometers north of Oslo, Ahmad Bouchikhi, a young Moroccan waiter, was returning home with his pregnant wife after an evening at the movie theater. This modest couple led a quiet,...