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...Staff writer Leon Neyfakh can be reached at neyfakh@fas.harvard.edu...
DIED. ABU ABBAS, 56, mastermind of the 1985 hijacking of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro; of natural causes; in U.S. custody in Baghdad. In 1976 he founded the Palestine Liberation Front, whose members seized the boat, fatally shot American Leon Klinghoffer and pushed him, in his wheelchair, into the Mediterranean. Abbas was captured by U.S. special forces in Baghdad last April, nearly two decades after being convicted in absentia by an Italian court...
DIED. ABU ABBAS, 56, Palestinian terrorist leader who masterminded the 1985 hijacking of the Achille Lauro cruise ship in the Mediterranean Sea, during which American Jewish tourist Leon Klinghoffer was shot and pushed overboard in his wheelchair; while in U.S. custody at a prison outside Baghdad. Abbas, whose real name was Mohammed Abbas, had lived in the Iraqi capital under government protection in recent years, but was captured by U.S. forces after the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime. Abbas?who learned his guerrilla tactics while fighting alongside the Viet Cong in the late 1960s?came to epitomize...
...track down Robert Mugabe's assets," said Royce, adding that he thought African governments, in particular South Africa's President Thabo Mbeki, were not sufficiently critical of Zimbabwe's human-rights record. And in South Africa two weeks ago the leader of the opposition Democratic Alliance Party, Tony Leon, asked the International Criminal Court to open an investigation into Mugabe's human-rights record. As of late last week Leon's office said the ICC had not responded. The morning after her first night of rape, three years ago, Debbie went to the camp commander to ask for medical help...
...Staff writer Leon Neyfakh can be reached at neyfakh@fas.harvard.edu...