Jury convicts Vermont man of attempted murder in shooting of three Palestinian students
A Vermont jury convicted Jason Eaton, 51, of attempted murder for the November 2023 shooting of three Palestinian college students in Burlington. Hisham Awartani was paralyzed from the waist down, and Tahseen Aliahmad and Kinnan Abdalhamid were wounded. Eaton's insanity defense, based on claims he acted on orders from the CIA and Mossad transmitted via FM radio, was rejected.
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Times of Israel · 2026-09-22 06:33 UTC
US jury convicts man who shot 3 Palestinians and later claimed Mossad guideance in insanity bid
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Most outlets ran near-identical AP copy; Al Jazeera offered only a brief summary. The only real split is whether to foreground the hate-crime angle, Times of Israel and Washington Times include it, CNN buries it, Al Jazeera omits it.
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“Jury convicts Vermont man of attempted murder in shooting of 3 Palestinian students - CNN”CNN CNN LEFT
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“Jury convicts Vermont man of attempted murder in shooting of 3 Palestinian students”WT Washington Times RIGHT
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“Attempted murder for the man who shot three Palestinians in Vermont” · Times of Israel, Reuters, Al Jazeera
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A Vermont jury convicted Jason Eaton of attempted murder for the November 2023 shooting of three Palestinian college students in Burlington.
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