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...said to be responsible for one of the bloodiest airplane hijackings of the 1980s was shocked last week to find himself in a Washington court. Omar Mohammed Ali Rezaq had been in a Ghanaian prison when authorities put him on a plane for Lagos, setting an elaborate police operation in motion. In a deal with the U.S., Nigeria refused to let him enter the country. U.S. agents who had slipped aboard the Nigeria-bound jetliner then had him arrested. Rezaq is said to be the sole survivor among the Palestinian hijackers who seized Egypt Air Flight 648 in 1985. After...
Malta's Prime Minister Carmelo Mifsud Bonnici, for his part, found himself in a dilemma over Cairo's request that his government extradite the sole surviving hijacker, a 22-year-old Palestinian who gave his name as Omar Mohammed Ali Rezaq, to Egypt. For Bonnici, going along with the Egyptians threatened Malta's close ties to Libya. He refused, arguing that the crimes involved had taken place on Maltese soil and that Egypt does not have an extradition treaty with Malta...
...Egyptians would dearly love to question the terrorist, who is a key link to what really happened aboard the hijacked plane. Rezaq, however, is likely to stand trial in Malta. For the moment he remained in St. Luke's Hospital under 24-hour guard by Maltese authorities...
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