The Lillehammer affair refers to the murder by Mossad agents of a Moroccan waiter, Ahmed Bouchiki, in Lillehammer, Norway on July 21, 1973. The agents had been sent by Israel to assassinate Ali Hassan Salameh, the leader of the Black September Organization, a Palestinian group that carried out the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre. They mistook Bouchiki for their target and shot him repeatedly as he walked back from a cinema to his apartment with his pregnant wife. Two members of the assassination team were arrested the next day as they re-used a getaway car to go to the airport. After their interrogation the whole cell was arrested, incriminating documents and the keys to a network of safe houses were discovered. Official seal of the Mossad â–¶(?) (Hebrew: המוסד למודיעין ולתפקידים מיוחדים, Institute for Intelligence and Special Assignments) is an Israeli intelligence agency, commonly referred to as Mossad. ... On July 21, 1973, Ahmed Bouchiki, an Algerian-born Moroccan citizen working as a waiter in Lillehammer, Norway, was killed by Israeli agents of the Mossad intelligence agency. ... County Oppland Landscape Gudbrandsdalen Municipality NO-0501 Administrative centre Lillehammer Mayor (2005) Synnøve Brenden Klemetrud (Ap) Official language form BokmÃ¥l Area  - Total  - Land  - Percentage Ranked 211 477 km² 450 km² 0. ... July 21 is the 202nd day (203rd in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 163 days remaining. ... 1973 (MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday. ... Ali Hassan Salameh (1940? - January 22, 1979), the so-called Red Prince, was the chief of operations for the Black September organization, which was responsible for the Munich Massacre and other attacks. ... The expression Black September may refer to: Black September, a Palestinian paramilitary organization The Black September in Jordan, a conflict between Palestinian militant organizations and Hashemite King Hussein of Jordan that began in September 1970 and ended in July 1971 with the expulsion of the PLO to Lebanon. ... The term Palestinian has other usages, for which see definitions of Palestinian. ... 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year that started on a Saturday. ... One of the so-called Black September kidnappers on the balcony of the Israeli hostel at the Olympic village The Munich massacre occurred at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany, when members of the Israeli Olympic team were taken hostage by the Palestinian terrorist organization Black September, assumed to... A safe house is a location where people may go to avoid persecution of their activities by authorities. ...

Of the seven Mossad agents who participated in the botched assassination (Michael Harari, Dan Ærbel, Abraham Gehmer, Zwi Steinberg, Michael Dorf, Marrianne Gladnikoff, and Yigal Zigal), six were captured by the Norwegian authorities and five were convicted of Bouchiki's murder. (Michael Dorf was acquitted). The five convicts were sentenced to prison terms ranging from two and a half to five years but all were released within 22 months and deported to Israel. Michael Harari, the leader of the assassins, managed to escape and was never extradited by Israel to face justice in Norway. After his retirement from the Mossad, he became a well-known mercenary operating in sub-Sahara Africa, Central and South America. The Israeli government attempted to deny responsibility for Bouchiki's murder for 23 years but, in 1996, Israel provided financial compensation to the Bouchiki family. 1996 (MCMXCVI) is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ...

The September 2004 book release of Mange liv (Many lives) by the former lawyer Annæus Schjødt, who represented two of the agents in the case, revealed that one of the arrested agents, Dan Ærbel, leaked information to the Norwegian government about the Israeli nuclear weapons program. However, the Norwegian government decided to remain silent about their findings. Information relating to Israel's development and possession of nuclear weapons was not made public until Mordechai Vanunu exposed the program in October 1986, some 13 years later. 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The mushroom cloud of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan, 1945, rose some 18 km (11 mi) above the hypocenter. ... Israel is very widely believed to possess a substantial arsenal of nuclear weapons and intermediate-range ballistic missiles to deliver them. ... Mordechai Vanunu in the garden of St. ... 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

External link

• The Israeli Response to the 1972 Munich Massacre - Includes an extensive overview of the Lillehammer Affair