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2019-09-22 Europe
Greek police arrest suspect in aircraft hijacking
How lovely it is that so many of the Middle East’s evil ones are bringing themselves in to be arrested.
[Jpost] Greek police have arrested a 65-year-old man suspected of an aircraft hijacking and kidnapping, crimes committed in 1985 and 1987, they said on Saturday.

Greek media said the man was thought to be involved in the 1985 hijacking of a Trans World Airlines (TWA) flight in which an American passenger was killed.

A Greek police official said the Lebanese suspect had disembarked from a cruise ship on the island of Mykonos on Sept. 19.

The source said that his name came up as being wanted by German authorities.

The 1987 crime was possibly related to his release in return for the freeing of two German citizens held hostage by his accomplices in Leb, the source said.

The suspect was being held in a high-security prison until German authorities identify him as the person wanted, the source added.

The TWA 847 flight from Cairo to San Diego with several en route stops was hijacked shortly after taking off from Athens in 1985. The hijackers demanded the release of Shi'ite Moslem prisoners from Israeli custody.

The passengers and crew endured a three-day intercontinental ordeal. Some passengers were beaten and a U.S. Navy diver who was on board the aircraft was killed. Dozens of passengers were held hostage over the following two weeks.
The Daily Mail has an image of the FBI Most Wanted poster for the gentleman in question, with photo, wherein he is named alternately as Mohammed Ali Hamadei, Ali Hamadi, and “Castro”, who appears to have been connected to the Shiite Amal militia, now a Lebanese political party connected to Hezbollah and still headed by Nabih Berri, speaker of Lebanon’s parliament since 1992 :
Greek media said the man had been arrested in Germany two years after the hijacking but was later exchanged with two Germans who were abducted in Beirut. He has remained a fugitive ever since.
The Times of Israel spells his name Mohammed Ali Hammadi, and has more background about the hijacking, adding:
Hammadi, along with fellow hijacker Hasan Izz-Al-Din and Ali Atwa, remains on the FBI’s list of most wanted terrorists under the name Mohammed Ali Hamadei. The FBI offered a reward of up to $5 million for information leading to his capture.
Posted by trailing wife 2019-09-22 00:00|| || Front Page|| [16 views ]  Top
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#1 I think their lives become infinitely more liveable when they're not on the run. Execute him this time, for God's sake.
Posted by Dron66046 2019-09-22 18:15||   2019-09-22 18:15|| Front Page Top

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