Editing Lillehammer affair (section)

==Assassination==
On the evening of 21 July, a day after having misidentified Bouchikhi as Salameh, the Mossad agents carried out the assassination. Bouchikhi and his pregnant wife had gone to see a movie. After taking a bus back and getting off at a bus stop, they began slowly walking back home. As they were in sight of their home, a car with four Mossad agents pulled up beside them. While two stayed in the car to provide cover, the other two got out and shot Bouchikhi 13 times with a 22 caliber pistol,  his wife witnessing the shooting.<ref>[http://www.regjeringen.no/nb/dep/jd/dok/nouer/2000/nou-2000-6.html?id=142668 NOU 2000: 6. Lillehammer-saken. Omstendigheter rundt drapet på Ahmed Bouchikhi den 21. juli 1973 og sakens senere håndtering av norske myndigheter.] p. 28</ref> They then jumped back into the car, which immediately drove away at high speed. Local police were close by, but by the time police and rescue arrived, Bouchikhi was dead.<ref name=Haaretz/><ref name=Reeve/>{{page number|date=July 2020}}<ref name="Witness; The Lillehammer Hit">{{cite news|title=Witness; The Lillehammer Hit|url=http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/witness/witness_20130722-0855a.mp3|newspaper=[[BBC World Service]]|date=22 July 2013}}</ref>

The killing shocked the residents of Lillehammer, where there had not been a murder for 36 years. The Israelis learned that they had killed the wrong man after the story was publicized the following day. Nine members of the hit team, including the two actual killers, escaped and had left Norway by the day following the assassination.<ref name=Haaretz/><ref name="Witness; The Lillehammer Hit"/> Six other members of the team, four men and two women, were arrested before they could escape. Two agents were caught in a getaway car they were using again without having changed the license plates while trying to get to an airport the day after the assassination. Their interrogations led to the arrests of the remaining members of the cell.<ref name="Witness; The Lillehammer Hit"/> Incriminating documents and the keys to a network of [[safe house]]s were discovered.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/an-eye-for-an-eye-20-11-2001/| date=20 November 2001| title=An Eye For An Eye| publisher=[[CBS]]}}</ref>

While the defence counsel said their clients played only minor roles such as shadowing and passing on information, five of the six agents were found guilty on a variety of charges and convicted of complicity in the killing, receiving sentences ranging from one year to five and a half years<ref name="Witness; The Lillehammer Hit"/> but were released and returned to Israel in 1975. The Mossad later found [[Ali Hassan Salameh]] in [[Beirut]] and killed him on 22 January 1979 with a remote-controlled car bomb in an attack that also caused the deaths of eight other persons (including four of Salameh’s bodyguards) and injured 18 others.<ref name=time1979>{{cite news|title=MIDDLE EAST: Death of a Terrorist|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,946209,00.html?internalid=ACA|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070112225630/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,946209,00.html?internalid=ACA|url-status=dead|archive-date=12 January 2007|newspaper=Time|date=5 February 1979}}</ref>