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...total of six arrest warrants were issued. Italian authorities believe that they have identified another terrorist who purchased tickets on the Achille Lauro for himself and for the four hijackers being held in Spoleto. Yet another suspect was registered aboard the cruise liner as a Greek citizen, but left the ship prior to the hijacking, at the Egyptian port of Alexandria...
Roman police last week also arrested two other Arabs who arrived at the ( capital's Leonardo da Vinci Airport bearing suitcases, each carrying 7.7 lbs. of plastic explosive. The duo had Moroccan passports similar to those carried by the captured Achille Lauro hijackers. Said Rome Prosecutor Rosario Priore: "We suspect that all these Moroccan passports may be linked. Possibly they come from a single stock made available for terrorist actions...
...Abbas was involved in the hijacking. There was nothing beyond the Israeli assertion to show that the tape was genuine. A man identified as Abbas, but referring to himself by the nom de guerre Abu Khaled, could be heard talking of "our objective" to the hijackers aboard the Achille Lauro. The conversation, with much static in the background, was somewhat cryptic, but at least seemed to indicate that Abu Khaled knew the hijackers personally. Said he: "Listen to me well. First of all, the passengers should be treated very well. In addition, you must apologize to them and the ship...
...dramatic details of the Achille Lauro affair emerged last week, providing answers to, and fresh questions about, what really happened during the six-day crisis. From the returning passengers and crew came a vivid account of the horror aboard the Italian cruise ship. Marilyn Klinghoffer, 59, returning home to New York City, recalled the anxious hours she spent on an upper deck with machine guns pointed at her head. The hijackers, she recounted, "kept popping their guns and playing with grenades on their belts, like little kids." Falsely told by the terrorists that her husband was in the ship...
...that passage. The Middle East can be as wild as the Dakota Territory, and the law there as unreliable. Reagan might point out that he was just as fastidious as Teddy Roosevelt in the matter of due process. The American fighters intercepting the Egyptian airliner that carried the Achille Lauro terrorists did not blow the plane out of the air. The American soldiers on the ground who had been ordered to take custody of the terrorists did not start shooting when an Italian unit insisted on taking them instead. The prisoners were handed over, unharmed, to the Italians...