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Was Canadian professor Hassan Diab innocent or a scapegoat for France shul bombing?

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JL;DR SUMMARY Two journalists explore the complex legal and moral questions surrounding the extradition and conviction of Hassan Diab, a Canadian professor accused of a 1980 synagogue bombing in Paris. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski.

  • At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself.
  • This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude.
  • Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from.
  • But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me.
  • And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.
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TerrorismExtraditionFranceIslamophobiaCanadaLegal SystemScapegoatHassan DiabCopernic Synagogue BombingIntelligence Reports

Places mentioned

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
"That's a snippet from a new Canadian investigative podcast from our friends at CanadaLand about the decades-long international legal saga surrounding Hassan Diab, the professor at Ottawa's Carleton University."
Paris, France
"the professor at Ottawa's Carleton University, accused of carrying out a gruesome terrorist attack, the 1980 bombing of the Kopernik Street Synagogue in Paris."
France
"And then, surprisingly, in 2018, the charges were dropped for lack of evidence, and France set him free."
Israel
"Israel would like to see Diab extradited from Canada a second time to France."
Beirut, Lebanon
"Several people attested to him being in Beirut at the time."
United Kingdom
"Alex Atack, a UK-based author."
California, United States
"Audio producer and from California, Dana Balut."
Germany
"some of the intelligence are from Stasi records, could have been obtained through torture or otherwise, and obviously that can be problematic. Stasi is for our listeners who may not remember East German intelligence."
Italy
"Some of them were fake, some of them were real, but Hassan Diab's passport was among them. Hassan says that he had lost the passport, and there was indeed, you know, a black market for passports in Lebanon at the time."
Larnaca, Cyprus
"Larnaca, Cyprus technician, right? So, he had this kind of fake identity, I guess, as a Cypriot national."
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