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Rome - Terrorist Involved in Achille Lauro Hijacking Dies

Published on:   Jun 22, 2009 at 01:48 PM
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Rome - A Palestinian man who helped plan the 1985 hijacking of the Achille Lauro cruise ship during which an American passenger was killed has died in an Italian jail.

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Lawyer Sandro Clementi said Khaled Hussein died of a heart attack early Monday in a jail in Benevento, near Naples. He was 73.

Clementi said Hussein was convicted in absentia by a Genoa court and sentenced to life in jail in 1987 for helping plan the attack. Clementi said Hussein did not take part in the hijacking but provided logistical support.

Hussein was arrested in Greece in 1991 and then extradited to Italy.

Four Palestinian militants hijacked the ship off the Egyptian coast, killing Leon Klinghoffer, an elderly Jewish man from New York who was shot and dumped in the sea in his wheelchair.


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 Jun 22, 2009 at 01:57 PM Anonymous Says:

Thats funny. It got warm today. I guess the fires of gehenim have some more fuel today.
Yemach shemo.

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 Jun 22, 2009 at 02:15 PM FrummieBoy Says:

I only hope that he suffered on the way out.

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 Jun 22, 2009 at 02:11 PM Anonymous Says:

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Anonymous Says:

Thats funny. It got warm today. I guess the fires of gehenim have some more fuel today.
Yemach shemo.

I could not have said it better myself, may all enemies of Klal Yisroal face the same fate, only sooner.

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 Jun 22, 2009 at 02:44 PM Chodesh Tov ! Says:

Chodesh Tov Yidden !!! Great news. I hope Leon is kicking this piece of garbage into the dung heap of gehenom for an eternity of shame. Rot in Hell Yimach Shmo !!!

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 Jun 22, 2009 at 02:48 PM Elections Have Consequences Says:

yemach sh'mo v'zichro!!

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 Jun 22, 2009 at 03:42 PM Anonymous Says:

maybe they let this terrorist go free...than claimed he died?

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 Jun 22, 2009 at 03:51 PM Anonymous Says:

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Anonymous Says:

maybe they let this terrorist go free...than claimed he died?

give me a break hes an old man their not smuggling him out of prison!

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 Jun 22, 2009 at 03:38 PM Anonymous Says:

It would be nice if the guards just stood there watching this piece of human excrement beg for his miserable life & did nothing, much as these terrorists did to Mr. Klinghoffer HY"D. That's justice.

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 Jun 22, 2009 at 07:38 PM charly Says:

#8.. the gaurds couldnt care less who he killed 25 years ago

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 Jun 22, 2009 at 11:44 PM PMO Says:

One could only hope that this piece of human filth died a slow, horrible, and extremely painful death. I hope he spends eternity constantly feeling every bit of pain he inflicted on others.

yemach sh'mo!

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