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...Oliver North. I do not feel betrayed. Lieut. Colonel North was involved in all our operations: the Achille Lauro, Libya. He has a fine record. He is a national hero. My only criticism is that I wasn't told everything...
...style and can-do effectiveness put him at the center of a series of strategic covert actions: he helped plan the mining of Nicaraguan harbors by CIA agents; his office was the nerve center for the invasion of Grenada; he masterminded the hijacking of the plane carrying the Achille Lauro terrorists; and he has been the principal adviser behind a private network designed to fund and arm the contras. "His role was to go right up to the limit of the law," says an Administration official familiar with North's activities. "He lost sight of the dividing line...
Since he joined the NSC in 1981, North has handled many highly sensitive missions. After the 1983 Beirut bombing that killed 241 U.S. Marines, North led the hunt for those responsible. The chief suspect, however, managed to escape. When terrorists seized the Achille Lauro cruise ship off the coast of Egypt last year, North arranged the midair interception of an EgyptAir jet carrying Abul Abbas, the mastermind of the hijacking, to safety in Tunisia. North helped plan the 1983 U.S. invasion of Grenada and last April's Libyan air raid. It was not surprising that North turned up in Cyprus...
...various terror groups have different versions of the end of days, but none include a Jewish state. The Achille Lauro hijackers, for example, issued a communique in Cyprus saying they had planned to land at "Ashdod harbor in occupied Palestine." Ashdod is not in the West Bank or Gaza. It is within pre-1967 Israel. If you consider Ashdod "occupied," every inch of Israel is occupied...
...ACHILLE LAURO. Four Palestinians, armed with Soviet-made submachine guns and hand grenades, in October 1985 seized the Mediterranean cruise liner with more than 400 passengers and crew aboard. The hijackers were persuaded to leave the ship voluntarily during negotiations involving the Egyptian government and Palestinian leaders. U.S. Navy pilots captured them after their surrender. One passenger, wheelchair-bound Leon Klinghoffer, 69, of Manhattan, was murdered in the attack...