Missing Israeli airman Ron Arad is dead, a former German intelligence chief said. “The only question remains whether he died of a disease, a kind of injury related to his crash, or was killed. But that he is dead is clear,” Bernd Schmidbauer told Germany’s WDR Television in a documentary to be screened Monday.
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