Word: stethem
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...Reagan thought he heard Kohl tell him that West Germany would not extradite Mohammed Ali Hamadei to the U.S. for trial. Hamadei, arrested in Frankfurt in January, is suspected of the 1985 hijacking of a TWA jet and the murder of one of its passengers, U.S. Navy Diver Robert Stethem. Aides later ascertained that Kohl had actually said no decision had been made and coupled that with an assurance that if Hamadei is tried and convicted in West Germany, he will get a stiff prison sentence. That was not the rebuff Reagan thought it was, but neither was it what...
...terrorists' rampage was an airplane: TWA Flight 847, helplessly ferrying its 153 captives around the Mediterranean after being taken over by two Muslim Shi'ite extremists. The U.S. endured 17 days of prime-time humiliation before the last 39 American hijack victims were released. One American, Navy Diver Robert Stethem, was killed...
...state radio late last week was cryptic and vague, perhaps intentionally so: Beirut judicial authorities would prosecute three of the most wanted men in America, the hijackers of TWA Flight 847. The Lebanese identified the two Shi'ite Muslims who seized Flight 847 and murdered U.S. Navy Diver Robert Stethem as Ahmed Gharbiyeh and Ali Youness. The third man, Ali Atwa, failed to board the plane in Greece, but joined the other two hijackers in Algiers after the Athens government released him in exchange for Greek hostages on board the Boeing...
...Hizballah is certainly a menacing terrorist group with a known track record of brutal attacks all over the world. The organization's American victims in Lebanon range from Navy diver Robert Stethem - his murdered body was thrown out the window of a TWA airliner in a 1985 hijacking in Beirut - and CIA station chief William Buckley the same year, to 241 killed in a 1983 bombing of the U.S. Marine headquarters that led Ronald Reagan to withdraw U.S. forces from Lebanon. The group was also blamed for lethal 1990s bombings of Jewish targets in Argentina - showing that its deadly reach...