Greece’s justice minister charged during a televised interview that a Greek army major who accompanied Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan in Kenya is an agent for Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency. When asked by a reporter if he could prove the charge, Evangelos Yianopoulos backed off, saying “Let’s wait and see what the investigation will prove.” Numerous political observers subsequently attacked Yianopoulos, saying it was not the first time that he had made an unsubstantiated allegation.
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