September 1997, in an Amman street in broad daylight: five men purporting to be Canadian tourists accost a Palestinian and inject a mysterious chemical into his ear. Within 48 hours it should kill him and leave no trace. The perfect political assassination. Paul McGeough talks to Richard Walsh about his new book, Kill Khaled: Mossad's Failed Hit and the Rise of Hamas, an account of the attempted assassination of Palestinian Khalid Mishal, then head of Hamas’ political bureau in Jordan, and the scramble to save his life that involved the Israeli prime minister, the king of Jordan and the US president.
PAUL MCGEOUGH (LOCAL) PAUL McGEOUGH is the author of In Baghdad: A Reporter's War and Manhattan to Baghdad: Despatches From the Frontline in the War on Terror. Paul’s many domestic and international journalism awards attest to his position as Australia's most prominent foreign correspondent. He has twice been named Australian Journalist of the Year, and in 2002 his reporting from Afghanistan was acknowledged by the awarding of a Johns Hopkins University-based SAIS Novartis prize for excellence in international journalism. His latest book Kill Khalid is the incredible true story of the attempted assassination of Palestinian Khalid Mishal.
RICHARD WALSH (LOCAL) RICHARD WALSH was co-editor of OZ, and later founded the weekly newspaper that became Nation Review. From 1972-86 he was managing director and publisher at Angus & Robertson; from 1986-99 he headed Australian Consolidated Press. He is a director of the publicly listed HWW Ltd and Text Media Ltd and was previously a director of PBL and Cinema Plus. He has written for television and the theatre, contributed to many books and compiled four volumes, the most recent being Great Australian Eulogies.
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