Back in 1997, Ali Hassan Abu Kamal chose the observation deck of the Empire State Building to go on a shooting rampage. He killed one person and wounded six others before killing himself. In his pocket was a rambling note denouncing US support for Israel.
At the time the Kamal family insisted the shooting wasn’t politically motivated. Now, almost ten years later, relatives admit that the shooting was politically motivated, that the Palestinian Authority shockingly told them to lie about that fact and even advised the family how to cover it up. The NY Daily News writes:
But in a stunning admission, Kamal’s 48-year-old daughter Linda told the Daily News that her dad wanted to punish the U.S. for supporting Israel – and revealed her mom’s 1997 account was a cover story crafted by the Palestinian Authority.
“A Palestinian Authority official advised us to say the attack was not for political reasons because that would harm the peace agreement with Israel,” she told The News on Friday. “We didn’t know that he was martyred for patriotic motivations, so we repeated what we were told to do.”
Makes us wonder about the credibility of other statements coming from Palestinian Authority officials.
