TITLE

A massacre in a mosque

AUTHOR(S)

Lief, Louise; Makovsky, David

PUB. DATE

March 1994

SOURCE

U.S. News & World Report;3/7/94, Vol. 116 Issue 9, p14

SOURCE TYPE

Periodical

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

Reports that Baruch Goldstein, a Brooklyn-born physician, donned an Israeli Army uniform, walked into a mosque in the West Bank town of Hebron, and fired an automatic assault rifle into a crowd of Palestinians gathered for prayers. Shooting of over 100 worshipers; His beating by would-be victims; Reaction to the violence; Why killings couldn't have come at a worse time.

ACCESSION #

9403027592

 

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