"One of the men who carried out a failed assassination attempt on then-West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer in order to sabotage the German-Israeli reparations agreement said yesterday that he does not know why Menachem Begin, who he said promoted the operation, and Begin's associates "kept their mouths shut" about the hit.... 

"On March 27, 1952, a bomb Sudit made was sent by mail to Adenauer. It exploded when a German sapper attempted to neutralize it, killing the sapper. The affair was hushed up through the years by Israel and Germany. However a journal Sudit wrote in 1994, the only testimony linking Begin to the affair was distributed among his friends. As reported in Haaretz yesterday, the journal came into the hands of a reporter for the German daily Frankfurter Allgemeine, Jorg Bremer, and parts of it were published Monday in the German paper."

This is just one more reference to former Prime Minister Menachem Begin's
rather sordid past as a hard-core terrorist. To read the complete article, go to: