Relatives of the Americans killed in the July 31 terror attack at Hebrew University reportedly are angry at President Bush for not sending condolences. “My cousin was murdered, and you didn’t even make a phone call or write a letter to her family,” Stephen Bennett, a cousin of victim Marla Bennett, wrote Bush, according to a report Wednesday in The Washington Post.
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