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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 which carried out the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre; they mistook Boushiki for their target and shot him as he walked back from a cinema to his flat 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.
Of the six Mossad agents that participated five were captured by the Norwegian authorities and convicted of the killing and imprisoned, but were soon thereafter released and returned to Israel. Mike Harari, who led the operation, managed to escape and was never turned in to Norwegian authorities by Israel (after his retirement he became a well known mercenary). The Israeli government attempted at the time to deny their responsibility for the murder. In 1996 Israel agreed to provide the family of Ahmed Boushiki with compensation.
In September 2004 a book release (Mange liv) by the former lawyer Annæus Schjødt, that 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 weapon program. The government, however, decided to be silent about this information. The possesion of nuclear weapons by Israel was not made publickly known before Mordechai Vanunu exposed it in October 1986, more than 13 years later.
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