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[Something... and Half of Something] In 1987, Arad’s family received several letters and a photo of Arad confirming that the missing navigator was alive and in Amal’s hands. Mustafa Dirani, the Amal security chief who allegedly captured Ron Arad when his plane crashed in Lebanon, reportedly broke away from the terrorist group in 1987, taking Arad with him.
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[Law and Politics Book Review] THE STRUGGLE OF DEMOCRACY AGAINST TERRORISM: LESSONS FROM THE ...: The Israeli government claimed they were being held in order to find out information about Arad, but they were released in 2004. Arad’s treatment was a cruel breach of international law on the part of his captives, but the Supreme Court of Israel (ANONYMOUS, 2000) and many others would disagree that hostage-taking in response can be justified (as is contended by Gross, p.155, and by the Imprisonment of [*390] Illegal Combatants Law 2002) under article 34 of the Fourth Geneva Convention or under the International Convention against the Taking of Hostages, adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations on 17 December 1979 (18 I.L.M.
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