Talk:Wasfi al-Tal

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I found this on the web. I thought it should be confirmed before being included:

"While Tal lay dying, one of the assassins knelt and lapped with his tongue the blood flowing across the marble floor. That grisly scene, reported in The Times of London and other major newspapers..."

"Four of its members assassinated Wasfi al-Tal, Jordan's prime minister and the enemy of the Palestinians, on the steps of the Sheraton Hotel in Cairo. Tal's last words were: "They've killed me. Murderers, they believe only in fire and destruction." <Uriya Shavit, Haaretz Newspaper, May 28, 2002>

"On 28 November 1971, an organization which was to leave an indelible mark on the history of political terror and the modern Middle East committed its first murder. Four armed Palestinians, operating in broad daylight and without the benefit of masks, shot dead the Jordanian Prime Minister, Wash Tel, as he returned to Cairo’s Sheraton Hotel from an Arab League meeting. The assassination itself was followed by a gruesome ritual as one of the killers knelt down, lapped up and drank some of Tel’s flowing blood and shouted several times that he and his accomplices belonged to Black September. " <Cedar Land, a Lebanese Site http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Parliament/2587/black.html> —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 193.251.34.73 (talk • contribs).