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| By: Associated Press |
| Published: January 22, 2006 |
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An Israeli court on Sunday convicted the brother of former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's assassin of threatening the life of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.
Hagai Amir, brother of Rabin assassin Yigal Amir, told prison officials in 2004 that he could have Sharon killed by making a phone call, according to court documents.
"What are you afraid of? That I will murder or assassinate Sharon?" he said, according to the documents. "I can have Sharon killed with a single phone call."
According to the documents, Hagai Amir claimed he made the first statement sarcastically, and never made the second threat at all. He accused prison guards of conspiring against him.
Hagai Amir is in the midst of a 16-year sentence for complicity in the killing of Rabin. He is to be sentenced on the latest charged Feb. 13. It was not immediately clear how much additional time he could face.
Yigal Amir is serving a life sentence for murdering Rabin after a peace rally in Tel Aviv in 1995. |
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