Grisly End To Hostage Victim From Entebbe

Now confidential cabinet papers released under the Freedom of Information Act show that the British High Commission in Kampala received a report from a Ugandan civilian that Mrs Bloch had been shot and her body dumped in the boot of a car which had Ugandan intelligence services number plates.

The same informant said that the body of a white woman had been found in a sugar plantation 19 miles from the capital. A further intelligence report says the face had been badly burnt, making identification difficult, but that the legs looked "bad" and that could have been the leg ulcers from which doctors confirmed she was suffering. The policeman guarding Mrs Bloch was also murdered, said the report.

Mrs Bloch's death, which was ignored in the Oscar -nominated film of Amin's life, The Last King of Scotland, became a major international incident, provoking outrage in the British Parliament.

The secret papers go on to describe the British government's repeated requests for information about the whereabouts of Mrs Bloch, who was on her way to her son's wedding in New York, as well as President Amin's denials of any involvement in her killing.

The IDF launched a daring commado raid that succeeded in freeing the hostages except Bloch on July 4, 1976. Yet, the article seemingly lays the blame for her death at the hands of the Israelis? Uganda and the Palestinian terrorists behind the hijacking were responsible for Bloch's death, not Israel. The proximate cause of Bloch's death were the Palestinian terrorists who hijacked the plane and the Ugandans who didn't have a problem with any of the events as they unfolded. The author of the piece doesn't have a problem throwing in a few anti-Israel comments into an article just to spice things up, even though they're blatantly and facially false.

Hat Tip: Discarded Lies