Minister’s assassin executed
NZPA-Reuter Abu Dhabi’ i A 19-year-old Palestinian has been executed in Abu; Dhabi for killing the United] Arab Emirates' Deputy] .Foreign Minister in an air-: (port shooting last month.] officials have said. | The officials said that] j Saleh Mohammed Khalid had] .been sentenced to death; after a closed trial by a; Sharai (Moslem religious)] [court. : There was no immediate] [word on the method of his] [execution, at dawn, but the] (court traditionally sentences’ (convicted murderers to be; (beheaded. The Deputy Foreign [Minister, Mr Seif bin Ghoibash, was shot down in a (hail of bullets fired from an [airport terminal balcony as he was seeing off visiting [Syrian Foreign Minister (Mr Abdel-Halim Khaddam) oni (October 25. ! The bullets were believed’ [to have been meant for the (Syrian Minister. Khalid, bom in exile iff Baghdad, was arrested after he took nine airport workers’ hostage and demanded acicess to a plane parked on; (the airport, tarmac. 1 Mr Khaddam cut short a ||tour of the gulf area after Jthe shooting and Syrian Jnewspapers accused Iraq of I organising the attempt.
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