Friday November 5 3:14 AM ET
Peres Wants Rabin Killing Investigation Reopened
By Jeffrey Heller
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's Shimon Peres called Friday for the reopening of the investigation into the 1995 assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, echoing demands by the late leader's family.
``I am concerned that there are people -- Rabin's family -- who believe there is still something to examine, so we must investigate,' said Peres, who took over as prime minister after Yigal Amir, an ultranationalist Jew, gunned down Rabin.
``There are things hanging in the air...and we must investigate again so that everyone is convinced matters were looked into properly,' Peres, now minister of regional cooperation in Ehud Barak's government, told Israel Radio.
Conspiracy buffs have long speculated the Shin Bet security service, in charge of protecting Rabin, was involved in the assassination, an allegation that found no support in the report of an official commission that investigated the killing.
They also said there were discrepancies in findings by a doctor who examined Rabin after he was shot and the pathologist who conducted his autopsy. The head of the inquiry board, former Chief Justice Meir Shamgar, said the findings were identical.
The Shamgar commission found no evidence of a conspiracy and a court subsequently sentenced Amir to life imprisonment. [...]
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