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March 10, 2004       Share:    

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44650-2004Mar9.html

Achille Lauro Hijacker Abbas Dies

(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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