Italian Cruise Ship Hijacked

On October 7 1985 four men including mastermind Muhammad Zaidan aka Mohammed Abul al-Abbas from the Palestine Liberation Front PLF hijacked the Italian MS Achille Lauro liner off the coast of Egypt as she was sailing from Alexandria to Ashdod Israel.

Italian cruise ship hijacked. The Achille Lauro left Genoa Italy on October 3 for a 12-day cruise of the Mediterranean Sea. The gunmen are demanding the release of 50 Palestinian prisoners held in Israel. The well-armed men who belonged to the.

The Achille Lauro An Italian cruise ship sailing the Mediterranean hijacked on October 7 1985 by four heavily armed Palestinian terrorists. The Achille Lauro left Genoa Italy on October 3 for a 12-day cruise of the Mediterranean Sea. Klinghoffer was disabled and in a wheelchair the terrorists shot him in the chest and head and then forced two crew members to dump him and the wheelchair he was confined.

Gunmen hijack Italian cruise liner Palestinian militants have hijacked an Italian cruise liner the Achille Lauro in the Mediterranean and threatened to blow it up. Aboard were 748 passengers and several hundred crew. The Achille Lauro left Genoa Italy on October 3 for a 12-day cruise of the Mediterranean Sea.

They murdered Leon Klinghoffer an elderly wheelchair-bound American Jew and took some 320 crewmembers and 80 passengers hostage. The Achille Lauro was an Italian cruise liner from hell. In their hands lied the fate of several passengers many Americans included and among them Jewish-American businessman Leon Klinghoffer.

The Achille Lauro Hijacking These sons of bitches must be prosecuted. Twenty-five years ago today on October 7 1985 the Italian cruise ship the MS Achille Lauro was hijacked by four Palestinian militants associated with a faction of the Palestine Liberation Front. Klinghoffer age 69 was from New York City and was vacationing with his wife Marilyn and their friends when four heavily armed terrorists hijacked the Achille Lauro cruise ship after it left Port Said Egypt.

A group of armed Palestinians hijacked an Italian cruise ship with more than 400 people aboard--most of them crew members--off the Egyptian coast. They demanded the release of 50 Palestinians imprisoned in Israel and specifically threatened to kill the US. The four hijackers of the cruise liner Achille Lauro hijacked in turn by US F-14 fighters faced interrogation yesterday by an Italian magistrate while Washington and.