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Wanted: Search for Dan Halutz |
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Friday, 25 May 2007 |
Notorious war criminal Dan Halutz [dossier] completed his course in Harvard
Business School's two-month Advanced Management Program (AMP) yesterday.
Halutz, former head of the Israeli military, orchestrated the indiscriminate
bombing of Lebanon last summer, killing up to 1,200 civilians. Major human
rights organizations condemned his policies as amounting to war crimes. It is
not clear if Halutz managed to wow faculty and students at HBS with his tips on
cluster bombing and how-to pep talks on strafing ambulances.
The Harvard-based Alliance for Justice in the Middle East (AJME) launched a
public safety campaign last week to alert the community to Halutz's presence.
AJME circulated mock WANTED posters for Halutz on campus and printed his
likeness on helium balloons to help boost awareness.
As Halutz is a "flight risk," AJME has put up WANTED notices to warn travelers
at Boston's Logan international airport and notified authorities there to keep
their eyes peeled for the suspect.
AJME's efforts this past week were covered by international media and its
website, http://harvardwarcriminals.blogspot.com, received over 12,000 unique
visits in the first ten days.
The Halutz campaign is part of a broader effort by AJME to end Harvard's pattern
of hiring and training known war criminals and human rights abusers, regardless
of nationality. AJME's research over the past 1.5 years has revealed at least
six individuals who had public records of personal or command responsibility for
specific war crimes and human rights abuses before coming to Harvard. AJME
welcomes any information about other Harvard-affiliated abusers who meet the
same criteria.
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