Israel Radio said this week that Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin had apologized to Maj. Gen. Yitzhak Mordechai, cleared of implication in the death of two captured terrorists which gave rise to the “senior security” officer affair, the day after news of the affair leaked out.
Rabin expressed his regrets at the hardship caused to the senior army officer because of accusations which the media now assert were based on false and misleading reports of what transpired after the two terrorists were led away from a hijacked bus for interrogation by the General Security Services.
The Radio said that Rabin had called Mordechai as soon as he learned details of the affair and apologized to him on his own behalf and of that of the IDF command. Rabin had learned all the details in meetings with Premier Shimon Peres and with Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir, who had been Premier at the time of the incident, the radio said.
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