21 April 2007

Bush honors Israeli professor killed in Virginia Tech shooting

"US President George W. Bush on Wednesday honored Professor Liviu Librescu, an Israeli Holocaust survivor who died trying to keep a gunman from shooting his students in a killing spree at Virginia Tech University.

Librescu, an aeronautics engineer and teacher at the school for 20 years, saved the lives of several students by using his body to barricade a classroom door before he was gunned down in Monday's massacre."

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http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3389555,00.html

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