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Okamoto was released in 1985 after 13 years in prison, as part of the Jibril Agreement, a prisoner exchange with Palestinian militant factions for captive Israeli soldiers. After his release from prison in Israel, Kōzō Okamoto moved to Libya, then Syria, and finally to Lebanon where he reunited with other members of the Japanese Red Army.
The Lod Airport massacre [1] [2] was a terrorist attack that occurred on 30 May 1972. Three members of the Japanese Red Army recruited by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – External Operations (PFLP-EO), [2] [3] attacked Lod Airport (now Ben Gurion International Airport) near Tel Aviv, killing 26 people and injuring 80 others. [4]
Kōzō Okamoto is the only survivor of the group of three JRA terrorists (alongside Tsuyoshi Okudaira and Yasuyuki Yasuda) attacking Lod airport in 1972, now called Ben Gurion International Airport. [9] [33] He was jailed in Israel, but in May 1985, Okamoto was set free in an exchange of prisoners between Israeli and Palestinian forces. [9]
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A helmeted policeman stands at the entrance of the French Embassy during the siege, 15 September 1974. The 1974 French Embassy attack in The Hague was an attack and siege on the French Embassy in The Hague in the Netherlands starting on Friday 13 September 1974.
At 10 p.m. on May 30, 1972, three JRA members – Okudaira, Kōzō Okamoto, and Yasuyuki Yasuda – arrived at Lod Airport in Israel aboard an Air France flight from Rome. [2] [3] [4] Dressed conservatively and carrying slim violin cases, they attracted little attention.
One terrorist was shot by another, while a second was killed by his own grenade. The third, Kōzō Okamoto, was jailed, but eventually released in a prisoner exchange in 1985. [106] Five children were killed, and 22 injured, in the derailing of a roller coaster, the "Big Dipper", at Battersea Park in London. [107] [108]
Kōzō Murashita (村下 孝蔵, 1953–1999), Japanese singer-songwriter; Kozo Nagayama (永山 耕三, born 1956), Japanese television and film director; Kôzô Nakamura (中村 康三), Japanese video game composer; Kozo Ohsone (大曽根 幸三, born 1933), Japanese engineer; Kōzō Okamoto (岡本 公三, born 1947), Japanese mass murderer