The World - News from Feb. 17, 1986
The severely bruised body of a Lebanese Jewish kidnap victim was found in mostly Muslim West Beirut, shortly after a Muslim extremist group said it had killed him, charging that he was a spy for Israel. Police said that the victim, Ibrahim Benesti, in his 50s, had been shot in the head and apparently tortured. The Muslim fundamentalist group called the Organization of the Oppressed on Earth said in a statement that it had killed Benesti, a merchant, as an example for “other agents” of Israel.
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