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Submitted by mg (France), Jul 22, 2008 at 04:32

According to a web site of the Israeli foreign ministry and the paper Yedihov, the Kuntar file remained secret for 30 years, and was released (in full?) only last week. In the file it appears that Kuntar has always, except in his first interrogation by the police, denied killing the child.

Does this not warrant elucidation before one gives way to unlimited expression of indignation?

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