Italy – Hijacker of Cruise Ship Who Killed Jew in Wheelchair Released Early from Prison

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    Palestinian terrorists hijacked the cruise ship Achille LaurA, brutally killing helpless Leon Klinghoffer in his wheelchairPalermo, Italy – The leader of the Palestinian guerrillas who hijacked the Italian cruise liner Achille Lauro in 1985 and killed an American Jewish passenger has been released from prison early.

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    Youssef Magied al-Molqui was released from a Palermo prison and a judge had ordered him expelled from Italy.

    Al-Molqui, who is married to an Italian woman, served nearly 24 years of a 30-year sentence handed down by an Italian court after the hijacking. He was released early for good behavior.

    During the action, four Palestinians shot dead an American Jew, Leon Klinghoffer, who was in a wheelchair, and threw his body overboard. His corpse washed ashore several weeks later.

    Al-Molqui was held principally responsible for the murder and is believed to be the last of the four hijackers who was in prison.

    Klinghoffer’s killing was discovered after the hijackers allowed the ship to dock in Egypt and they initially managed to escape.

    Later, U.S. fighter jets intercepted an Egyptian plane on which the hijackers were trying to flee and forced it to land in Sicily, where the four hijackers were arrested.

    Relations between Italy and the United States nosedived at the time because Italy allowed Palestinian guerrilla leader Abu Abbas, who had masterminded the hijacking and who was aboard the Egyptian plane, to escape to then-Yugoslavia.

    In 1996, al-Molqui failed to return to prison after a 12-day leave. He was later arrested in Spain. At the time, the United States put a $2 million bounty on his head.


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    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    yemach shmom vzichrom

    Let all of those bad dooers suffer with terible pain forever

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    Maybe that’s a good thing. Maybe the Mosad can go after him now???

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    Oh, so we suppose this guy has been reformed? He now loves Jews and won’t go after more of us? Send the Mossad to strike pre-emtively as pikuei nefeshot. For sure he’s already plotting his next terrorist move. Maybe, G-d forbid, you’ll be next.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    Maybe they are waiting for him to kill a good Italian for them to do something!!!!

    Avrohom Abba
    Avrohom Abba
    14 years ago

    Excuse me. He murdered the man in the wheel chair and then he threw him with his wheelchair overboard. Leon Klinghoffer was on that boat because he was celebrating his 36th wedding anniversary with his wife. Many of us know what typically happens with all those terrorists Israel inexplicably releases from time to time. They join the first terrorist group they can find. Would you please stop all this law and order crap???!! This guy is going to show off how committed he is to the Moslem. He is not going to become a librarian or a chef.
    Would you feel the same way after someone took a member of your family chas veshalom and killed him and tossed his body into the sea? Gentlemen, they picked Mr. Klinghoffer only because he was Jewish. The boat was loaded with hundreds! They picked him on purpose!!
    24 years in prison means that for the past 24 years more Jews remained alive.

    dovy
    dovy
    14 years ago

    This is why terrorist murderers should recieve the death penalty immediately. (But please keep the incompetent mossad out of this, the only person they have successfully assasinated in recent history was Rabin)

    PMO
    PMO
    14 years ago

    Such hypocrites on this website. A woman pays to have her husband killed and everyone is passionately concerned about her not spending too much time in prison… but because this guy is a Muslim, you say “KILL HIM”. This crime happened outside our borders. He was tried and convicted under the law. He served his sentence under Italian law.

    However, if someone wants to kill him and is willing to do the time in prison for it…. more power to you! You’ll get a ‘thank you’ from me. 🙂