Talk:Naji al-Ali

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I saw this on the Palestine portal page both as a request for translation and request for article, so I plunged in. The translation is very rough (doing it on the hoof with no dictionary) and the article could do with more info, which I am going to try and dig out of a book in the next couple of days.

Anyone have a picture of Naji al-Ali or of his grave in London, or know how to copy the picture of Handala from the Arabic article?Palmiro 19:28, 13 July 2005 (UTC)19:21, 13 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Murder and culpability

An anonymous contributor has added the following:

Under interrogation, the Jerusalem-born man, Ismail Sawan, said that his superiors in Tel Aviv had been briefed well in advance of the plot to kill the cartoonist.

By refusing to pass on the relevant information to their British counterparts, Mossad earned the displeasure of Britain, which retaliated by expelling two Israeli diplomats from London. A furious Margaret Thatcher, then prime minister, closed Mossad’s London base in Palace Green, Kensington.

While I've read this myself in a couple of places, I don't think it should go in the article without a reliable source being cited. Also, just referring to this end of the affair and not to the suspicions that Palestinian figures were behind the murder seems a bit parti pris. Palmiro | Talk 13:54, 23 June 2006 (UTC)