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Mehdi said Sirhan “may have been inflamed” by a statement made last Saturday night during the broadcast McCarthy-Kennedy debate in California. Kennedy said at one point, “I think we have a commitment to Israel, for its own sake, that has to be kept.”.. | Mehdi said Sirhan “may have been inflamed” by a statement made last Saturday night during the broadcast McCarthy-Kennedy debate in California. Kennedy said at one point, “I think we have a commitment to Israel, for its own sake, that has to be kept.”.. | ||
Sirhan comes from a part of the world where the word “assassin” originated centuries ago. A secret order of Ismaili Moslems terrorized Christians and other enemies, while allegedly under the influence of hashish, at the time of the Crusades. They were called assassins from a corruption of the word hashish...}}</ref> | Sirhan comes from a part of the world where the word “assassin” originated centuries ago. A secret order of Ismaili Moslems terrorized Christians and other enemies, while allegedly under the influence of hashish, at the time of the Crusades. They were called assassins from a corruption of the word hashish...}}</ref> | ||
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<blockquote>Palestinian who emigrated from Jordan to the US shot and killed Democratic presidential hopeful in 1968.</blockquote> | <blockquote>Palestinian who emigrated from Jordan to the US shot and killed Democratic presidential hopeful in 1968.</blockquote> | ||
Cody Combs, ''The National'', June 12, 2025.</ref>}} | Cody Combs, ''The National'', June 12, 2025.</ref>}} | ||
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Revision as of 03:37, May 10, 2026
Sirhan Sirhan is an Arab "Palestinian" extremist and Jordanian citizen who carried out the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy. It is believed that he carried out the murder because Kennedy strongly supported Israel. He was captured at the scene by Rosey Grier, a well-known NFL player.
Sirhan was active in M. T. Mehdi Arab propaganda on college. [1]
Neo-Nazis' allied Issa Nakhleh, sent by his boss, al-Husseini, the ex Grand Mufti of Jerusalem,[2] represented Sirhan Sirhan.
| “ | At an emergency meeting of the group held during the assassin's trial, Issa Nakhleh, a former senior adviser to the UN Palestinian Delegation, described Sirhan as an “Arab guerrilla” whose murder of Mr Kennedy was “motivated by political events”.
“Nakhleh informed the group that one of his aims in briefing the group was to enlist their support for a trip to the Middle East which he planned to make in order to collect funds to aid Sirhan's defence,” reads the document... It also alleges that Mr Nakhleh had in the past been accused of being a “loose handler” of funds – that he had previously raised money for various causes, but that the funds later “found a way into his pockets”.[3] |
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After being convicted of the crime in 1969 and initially sentenced to death in the gas chamber, his sentence was commuted in 1972 to life in prison at the Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility in San Diego County, California.
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- ↑ Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Jun 6, 1968.
SIRHAN REPORTED ACTIVE IN PRO-ARAB COLLEGE ORGANIZATION. Accused Assailant, Family Came to U.S. in 1957 From Jordan Village. JERUSALEM, June 5 (AP) — Sirhan Bishara Sirhan, identified in California as a man of Jordanian origin who shot Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, came from a small village of terraced Palestine near Jerusalem, Arab sources said tonight. “Records in Washington showed that Sirhan, with his father, mother, a number of brothers and a sister, arrived in New York Jan. 12, 1957—not long after one of the three Israeli-Arab wars began. Sirhan then was 12. Arab sources said other members of the Sirhan family, known in Jerusalem as Sarhan—pronounced Sakhan—still live at Silwan on the outskirts of Old Jerusalem in the West Bank sector seized by Israel from Jordan last June. There are about 250 persons named Sirhan in the village, all members of branches of the same family, the sources said. Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service in Washington showed that Sirhan was born March 19, 1944. At that time, the area was ruled by Britain under the League of Nations Palestine mandate. With Britain’s blessing, Jordan became an independent kingdom in 1946. There was no known police record of Sirhan in the Jerusalem area. Authorities in Los Angeles said Sirhan had been living with a brother, Munir “Joe” Sirhan of Pasadena, a department store employe. They also mentioned another brother, Adel, as having participated in the process of identification. None of the Sirhan family in America was naturalized, the immigration department in Washington said. The secretary-general of the Action Committee on American-Arab Relations, Dr. Mohammed T. Mehdi, said in New York that Sirhan was a student at Pasadena State College and was active in the Organization of Arab Students at the college. Mehdi is known in the New York area as a propagandist for Arab causes. Mehdi said Sirhan “may have been inflamed” by a statement made last Saturday night during the broadcast McCarthy-Kennedy debate in California. Kennedy said at one point, “I think we have a commitment to Israel, for its own sake, that has to be kept.”.. Sirhan comes from a part of the world where the word “assassin” originated centuries ago. A secret order of Ismaili Moslems terrorized Christians and other enemies, while allegedly under the influence of hashish, at the time of the Crusades. They were called assassins from a corruption of the word hashish...
- ↑ Justice Department Keeps Watch on Arab Students Group As Sirhan Probe Continues. JTA, June 24, 1968
- ↑ 'Kennedy must fall': CIA releases Sirhan Sirhan diary pages and RFK assassination files.
Palestinian who emigrated from Jordan to the US shot and killed Democratic presidential hopeful in 1968.
Cody Combs, The National, June 12, 2025.