(AP/Washington Post) Mohammed Daraghmeh - Abul Abbas, the Palestinian mastermind of the 1985 hijacking of the Achille Lauro passenger ship - during which he threw an elderly wheelchair-bound Jewish American tourist, Leon Klinghoffer, overboard after shooting him - has died in U.S. custody in Iraq "of natural causes," U.S. officials said Tuesday.
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