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New book: Israel killed top-wanted Palestinian with poisoned chocolate

(Jerusalem-AP) May 6, 2006 - A new book reveals that Israel's secret service killed a Palestinian operative wanted for airplane hijackings by feeding him poisoned Belgian chocolate.

In "Striking Back," Jerusalem's Time magazine correspondent Aaron Klein describes how the Mossad tracked down Wadia Haddad in Baghdad, where he was in hiding.

Klein told Israel radio that Haddad knew he could be shot or bombed as he walked the street or picked up a phone. So he was very cautious of his every move. But the 309-pound food lover had a weakness: chocolate.

Klein said the Mossad, working with a Palestinian who had become close to Haddad, secretly gave him chocolate laced with poison over six months in 1977.

Haddad died in March 1978, showing only symptoms of leukemia but no signs of poisoning.

Posted 8:48pm by Graeme Moore