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| Greek police make arrest in 1985 hijacking of TWA Flight 847 |
| 2019-09-22 |
| ATHENS, Greece (AP) ‐ Greek police said Saturday they have arrested a suspect in the 1985 hijacking of a flight from Athens that became a multi-day ordeal and included the slaying of an American. Police said a 65-year-old suspect in the hijacking was arrested Thursday on the island of Mykonos in response to a warrant from Germany. Lt. Col. Theodoros Chronopoulos, a police spokesman, told The Associated Press that the hijacking case involved TWA Flight 847. The flight was commandeered by hijackers shortly after taking off from Athens on June 14, 1985. It originated in Cairo and had San Diego set as a final destination, with stops scheduled in Athens, Rome, Boston and Los Angeles. The hijackers shot and killed U.S. Navy diver Robert Stethem, 23, after beating him unconscious. They released the other 146 passengers and crew members on the plane during an ordeal that included stops in Beirut and Algiers. The last hostage was freed after 17 days. The suspect was in custody Saturday on the Greek island of Syros but was set to be transferred to the Korydallos high security prison in Athens for extradition proceedings, a police spokeswoman told The Associated Press. She said the suspect was a Lebanese citizen. The spokeswoman spoke on condition of anonymity because the case was ongoing. Police refused to release the suspect’s name. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #11 Also unlikely that a known terrorist would travel on a cruise ship to the EU under his own name. |
| Posted by: European Conservative 2019-09-22 18:55 |
| #10 Mohammed Ali Hamadi was born in 1964 (can't be 65 yo) and supposedly died in 2010. Also served 10years in Germany for murder and was sent to Lebanon after been freed. Not likely he'd be on a German warrant as reported. |
| Posted by: European Conservative 2019-09-22 18:52 |
| #9 Ref #8: Yes, a very unpleasant story of Italian betrayal (Carabinieri-JSOC standoff) that played out on the tarmac. I hope they somehow payed a terrible price for that piece of genius. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2019-09-22 18:49 |
| #8 #4 Leon Klinghoffer's murderers were captured by the USN, but the Italian government made us give them back. Ah, the 1980s. spit. |
| Posted by: The peanut gallery 2019-09-22 18:32 |
| #7 See the article below for more on the story, guys. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2019-09-22 18:04 |
| #6 Hamadei Saleh Mohammed Ali per one news report other reports have him as Mohammad Saleh his birthday and name is a match for a person wanter in a 1987 kidnapping in Germany. |
| Posted by: lord garth 2019-09-22 17:09 |
| #5 I think it was that incident after which the Israelis leveled the PLO offices in Tunis. I'm sure there are stories in blacked-out Sayeret files about Paleo fuckers from Syria to Jordan who got 'whacked' immediately after . |
| Posted by: Dron66046 2019-09-22 13:35 |
| #4 Have the Greek police ever arrested members of the Palestine Liberation Front who hijacked the Achille Lauro in 1985 and threw wheelchair bound Leon Klinghoffer overboard? Leon was a Jew you know. |
| Posted by: jpal 2019-09-22 11:28 |
| #3 Could be Atwa. |
| Posted by: Dron66046 2019-09-22 02:44 |
| #2 If he's 65, that rules out Hasan Izz-Al-Din and Ali Atwa. Both should be 50 or so. Hammadi was reported dead somewhere in the 'Stain by spooks. If he were alive he'd be around mid 50s too. The Greeks say it could be Hammadi though. |
| Posted by: Dron66046 2019-09-22 02:43 |
| #1 Police refused to release the suspect’s name. Peiter Bezuidenhout probably not a valid guess. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2019-09-22 01:33 |