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On May 30, 1972, Mr. Okamoto was one of three Japanese Red Army members who pulled machine guns and grenades from bags coming off an Air France flight from Rome at Israel's international airport near Lod. In the ensuing carnage, 26 people were killed, including 16 Puerto Rican Roman Catholics on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, and 74 were injured. Two of the Japanese attackers were also killed. Full Story