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...from the effects of explosions and seven had been shot to death, including an American passenger, Scarlett Marie Rogenkamp, 38, of Oceanside, Calif. But no fewer than 44 had died from burns and smoke inhalation. Of the three to five terrorists on board, one or two survived. Experts in Malta debated whether the majority of deaths had been caused by the explosives detonated by the Egyptians in gaining entrance to the plane or by the grenades thrown by the hijackers when they realized that a rescue operation was under way. In truth, it hardly mattered, because the events of terrorism...
...from the ceiling, and Captain Galal began an emergency descent from 35,000 ft. to 14,000 ft. One of the terrorists ordered him to fly to Libya, but Galal convinced him that, with the plane damaged and fuel limited, it was unsafe to attempt to fly farther than Malta. At first the tower at Malta's Luqa International Airport refused to let the Egyptian airliner land, but authorities relented after Captain Galal told them that he was in imminent danger of crashing into the sea because he was nearly out of fuel. Even so, the runway lights were still...
...Valletta, recovering from gunshot wounds in the chest and abdomen, and could not be questioned. Although he was under heavy guard, Egyptian security officials feared he might be targeted for assassination by his mysterious mentors. In the meantime the Egyptians requested his extradition, a move that they expected Malta to honor...
...Egyptian assault on the Malta hijackers was the third indication in eight weeks that governments have decided that the best way to beat terrorism is to fight fire with fire. So far the results have been mixed. In the celebrated air interception of the four Palestinians who took over the Achille Lauro, U.S. anger and decisiveness yielded a spectacular victory without bloodshed. But in the Colombian government's Nov. 6 assault on M-19 terrorists holed up in the country's Palace of Justice, and again in Malta last week, the responses produced triumphs that could just as easily...
...Though governments did finally begin to fight back, their efforts illustrated the complexities and perils of antiterrorist action: the U.S. capture of the Achille Lauro hijackers strained relations with Egypt and Italy, while 60 passengers on the EgyptAir jet were dead after Egyptian commandos stormed the grounded plane in Malta. But in Argentina the elected civilian government of President Raśl Alfonsin sentenced to long prison terms five members of the former military junta who were convicted of practicing what might be called state terrorism: the kidnaping, torture and killing of innocent citizens...