80's Terrorist Cruise Ship

The Costa cruise ship Costa Fascinosa was also in port at Tunis at the time of the attack.

80's terrorist cruise ship. News reports report that the bombings were committed by a Turkey-based Kurdish militant group identified in the New York Times as the Kurdistan Freedom Falcons or TAK. James Stavridis at a NATO meeting. Costa Cruises says it has suspended all calls at Tunis going forward.

In the last of these in 1994 the ship caught fire and sank in the Indian Ocean off. Fortunately reliable intelligence information alerted the cruise ships of a possible threat and they diverted their port call from Turkey to Cyprus. Awesome Ship Mariner of the Seas.

The Libyan people back then mostly Sunni Muslims were peaceful. 7 1985 off the coast of Egypt four gunmen hijacked the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro and demanded the release of Palestinian prisoners in Egypt Italy and elsewhere. The two cruise companies whose passengers found themselves in the middle of a terrorist drama in Tunis will likely weather this incident.

By Jim Walker on December 11 2016. These draconian measures instituted in the post-911 era only further decrease the amount of people who want to cruise and terrorize the public in the process. MS Achille Lauro was a cruise ship based in Naples Italy.

All-Inclusive Price Drinks included no extra fees. Built between 1939 and 1947 as MS Willem Ruys a passenger liner for the Rotterdamsche Lloyd she was hijacked by members of the Palestine Liberation Front in 1985. The hijacking of the Achille Lauro in 1985 resulted in death of one passenger.

That attack specifically targeted tourists and reports indicated that the attackers had waited for the buses to arrive from the ships. Cruise ships docking in the Eastern Mediterranean are at. Sinking a ship with a submersible parasitic device.