George Ibrahim Abdallah, granted release from imprisonment by French appeals court for the 1982 murders of an Israeli diplomat & the U.S. military attaché in Paris, as well as the attempted murder of the U.S. Consul General in Strasbourg in 1984.
The United States objected on Friday to a French court’s planned release of a Lebanese leftist militant, saying he may still be a threat a quarter century after he was convicted of killing an American and an Israeli diplomat.