Kozo Okamoto, Japanese militant who took part in a 1972 Tel Aviv airport attack, dies in Beirut

Kozo Okamoto, a Japanese militant involved in a 1972 attack on Tel Aviv’s airport that killed 26 people, died at 78 in Beirut. He was imprisoned in Israel for 12 years before being released in a prisoner exchange and later lived in Lebanon under the alias Ahmad al-Yabani, protected by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.