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del.icio.us Digg It!  new Last update - 03:59 23/10/2007 Yigal Amir tells how he murdered Rabin in investigation cassette By Jonathan Lis, Haaretz Correspondent Dalia Rabin received a video cassette from the police Monday of the initial investigation of Yigal Amir, who assassinated her father, prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, 12 years ago Wednesday, according the the Jewish calendar. "I decided to kill him, to neutralize him politically...heaven forbid, I don't regret it," Amir says in the cassette, at his first police interrogation after the murder on November 4, 1995. Advertisement Amir, who was loitering near Rabin's car after the demonstration that night, explains that he decided not to shoot then foreign minister Shimon Peres, who came down the steps at Kikar Malchei Yisrael a few minutes before Rabin, because he was merely a "secondary target." "Afterward Rabin came down accompanied by security men. I approached him before he entered his car, fired three bullets at him and then the security men jumped on me and I threw down the gun," Amir says. Commissioner David Cohen presented Rabin with the cassette during a meeting of police top brass at the Yitzhak Rabin Center for Israel Studies, to mark the anniversary of the assassination. "The national trauma enveloping us since the prime minister was murdered, with the intention of blocking a political move, will haunt the Israeli nation for generations," Cohen said. "Every policeman can strengthen democracy every day in situations that require his judgment to choose between one option and another. At this moment, he should choose the democratic option," he said. Cohen said "the violence Yitzhak Rabin spoke about in his last words, when he said it undermined the foundations of democracy, is the challenge you are dealing with." Bookmark to del.icio.us Mystery fall Avraham and Carmela Cohen are suspected of being involved in a soldier's murder. Lonely no more Many people hold Lonely Planet responsible for the entire globe becoming a tourist site.   1.   Amir should be freed 04:35  |  Alex 23/10/07   2.   AMIR IS A SECRET POLICE AGENT,HE COVERED UP THE ASSACINATION,NOW 05:20  |  VOICE))))))) 23/10/07   3.   DALIA RABIN PRESENTED WITH THE CASSETTE BECAUSE SHE HAD DOUBTS OF 06:19  |  VOICE))))))) 23/10/07   4.   Poster boy of Zionism 07:01  |  0 Degrees 23/10/07   5.   talkback rabin vs. amir 07:21  |  avrumiye 23/10/07   6.   Amir 07:22  |  Mel McManus 23/10/07   7.   yakovi-bull 08:41  |  -yakov 23/10/07   8.   Rabin was a muderer of Holocaust survivors from Altalena 09:17  |  Rabbo 23/10/07   9.   yigal 09:33  |  gigi 23/10/07   10.   Yidal Amir- Dalia Rabin 09:51  |  Miki 23/10/07   11.   Yigal Amir 10:46  |  Eliezer 23/10/07   12.   Learn History 10:53  |  RightClick 23/10/07   13.   #4 0 Degrees 11:03  |  * BEN JABO 23/10/07   14.   Peres Peace Center is financed by enemies of Israel,fitting place 11:05  |  Absolute Sweden 23/10/07   15.   Amir #6 11:13  |  Gabriel 23/10/07   16.   Amir 11:21  |  paul 23/10/07   17.   What a pity 11:31  |  liz 23/10/07

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