Editing Mohammed Ali Hammadi
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== TWA hijacking and capture == | == TWA hijacking and capture == | ||
In 1985 the terrorist group [[Hezbollah]], of which Hammadi was a member, planned to commit the [[TWA Flight 847 | In 1985 the terrorist group [[Hezbollah]], of which Hammadi was a member, planned to commit the [[Hijacking of TWA Flight 847]]. The goal was to force Israel into releasing 766 prisoners, mainly Lebanese, as well as the [[Kuwait Seventeen]], who were responsible for bombing a US embassy in Kuwait. Hammadi was identified as one of the two Lebanese terrorists who initially commandeered the plane when it left Athens, and may or may not have been the terrorist who threatened Captain John Testrake with a grenade to force air traffic control into letting the plane land in Beirut. He was also responsible for the shooting of passenger Robert Stethem as a method of scaring the staff at Beirut airport into refuelling the plane. Hammadi was later arrested in West Germany in 1987 for smuggling liquid explosives and charged with the murder of Robert Stethem. He was sentenced to life in prison, but only served nineteen years before being paroled. Β | ||
== Lebanon and possible death == | == Lebanon and possible death == | ||