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...outrages in Beirut followed what seemed a rare break in the long and painful campaign against international terrorism. That was the chance arrest in West Germany of Mohammed Ali Hamadei, 22, one of four alleged ringleaders in the TWA hijacking and suspects in the killing of Navy Diver Robert Stethem. Hamadei is thought to be one of the two gunmen who were actually aboard TWA Flight 847 when it was commandeered and who savagely beat and then shot the American sailor. Hamadei was detained at Frankfurt's international airport after officials discovered he was carrying a false passport and bottles...
...real news was still to come. A check of fingerprints supplied by the U.S. stunned West German officials. Declared West German Interior Minister Friedrich Zimmermann: "The man we captured is a big fish." Indeed he was: he was none other than Mohammed Ali Hamadei, 22, a Lebanese wanted in the U.S. for murder and air piracy in the TWA hijacking. Hamadei was allegedly one of the original two hijackers; his hooded face appeared all over the world as he and his fellow terrorists made demands from the hijacked plane. In Washington, Justice Department officials are asking that Hamadei be flown...
...demand for Hamadei could hit a legal snag. Under terms of a 1978 U.S.-West German extradition treaty, Bonn will not extradite suspects who would face the death penalty in an American court for the crime involved. Hamadei could be executed if he is convicted in the U.S. At week's end American and West German diplomats in Bonn were discussing other possible means of bringing Hamadei to the U.S. besides formal extradition. Said a State Department official: "It's just a question of working out procedures." A Justice Department spokesman refused to say whether the U.S. would waive...
...Hamadei was the second suspected terrorist to be arrested in Europe last week. In Italy, police at Milan airport seized another Lebanese man, Bachir Khodr, 26, who arrived from Beirut. Inspection of picture frames and chocolate Easter eggs in Khodr's luggage found them to be filled with 24 lbs. of plastic explosives. A portable radio that he carried contained 36 detonators. Authorities in Italy believe Khodr may be a member of a pro-Iranian terrorist group called Hizballah and could possibly have ties to Hamadei. Italian Interior Minister Oscar Scalfaro asserted that the "arrest in Frankfurt is linked with...