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Japanese 'Arab resistance fighter' Kozo Okamoto dies at 78
Kozo Okamoto, a Japanese leftist involved in the 1972 attack on Lod Airport in Israel that killed 26 people, died at 78 in Beirut. He spent much of his life in Lebanon after being released from an Israeli prison in 1985 and was protected by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).
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