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Dan Burton: A man named Mohammed Rahim Mosleh, an American citizen, was picked up for questioning Wednesday at a cafe by…

On the recordOctober 11, 1995
A man named Mohammed Rahim Mosleh, an American citizen, was picked up for questioning Wednesday at a cafe by plain-clothesmen who identified themselves as agents of Jericho's preventive security police on the West Bank, now the new domicile of the Palestinian Liberation Organization. He was picked up. He was dressed only in his trousers when his body was returned today at 2:00 a.m. Now get this, my colleagues, his forehead was bruised blue, his lip was torn open, blood had flowed from one ear, and there were what appeared to be burn marks on his right foot, like cigarette burns, according to family members. Palestinian security officials speaking on conditions of anonymity, said Mosleh was overcome by the 98 degree heat in Jericho and had a heart attack. Get that, he had a heart attack with his head smashed in, his lip bleeding, his blood coming out of his ear and burn marks on his feet. A doctor at Jericho's hospital, where Mosleh was dead on arrival, refused to issue a death certificate. The certificate would normally include a cause of death.
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Dan Burton
Indiana

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Discussing the death of American citizen Mohammed Rahim Mosleh after being detained by Palestinian security forces.

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