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Kōzō Okamoto

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Kōzō Okamoto (Japanese: 岡本 公三, Hepburn: Okamoto Kōzō; IPA: [o̞ka̠mo̞to̞ ko̞ːzo̞ː]; 7 December 1947 – 23 July 2026) was a Japanese communist militant and a member of the Japanese Red Army (JRA), responsible for the massacre of 26 passengers at Ben-Gurion International Airport in Israel in 1972. While at university, Okamoto was introduced to the Red Army Faction (the precursor organization to the JRA) by his brother, a member of the group. He later traveled to Beirut, Lebanon, where he received military training by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and was selected to carry out the Lod Airport massacre. He was the sole survivor of the three perpetrators. After his arrest by Israeli forces, Okamoto was sentenced to three life sentences, but was released in the 1985 Jibril Agreement after serving 13 years. He would later move to Lebanon, where he spent three years in prison on false visa charges before being granted asylum, despite a Japanese extradition request.

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Kōzō Okamoto is a Japanese Red Army member responsible for the 1972 massacre of 26 passengers at Ben-Gurion Airport in Israel. In 2005 the opening called the Japanese Red Army a terrorist group. Today the opening instead calls him a 'Japanese communist,' and though terror survives 23 times elsewhere in the article, the group's own terrorist designation is gone from the opening. A reader arriving now learns he was a communist responsible for a massacre, not that Wikipedia's own opening once called his organization a terrorist group.
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