Abu Abbas Caught in Iraq!

[yellowking]

This is the Achille Lauro terrorist who got away. Hot damn!

http://www.command-post.org/archives/005620.html

http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/04/15/sprj.irq.abbas.arrested/index.html

[Trigger]

BOOYAH!! woot

[hood]

I was positive that I read something about 6 months ago saying that there was a raid on an apartment in Baghdad and that Abbas went out shooting.. they killed him. I'm trying to find the article but it's pretty funny that he's turning up now.

[Duke]

This is HUGE for the Syrians, and not so good for hawks in the White House and Pentagon. This shows that the Syrians have tightened their border and are willing to take on the terrorists.
About ****ing time we got him. Why did the italians let him go anyway?? Not enough evidence? the dude came off the damn plane after highjacking a huge boat for christsake!!

[JiJoMacLE45]

It was Abu Nidal who died in Baghdad in August of an apparent gunshot wound, whether it was self inflicted or not has not been made public. He was suffering from terminal cancer at the time of his death.

[hood]

Ah ok. That makes sense now why none of the searches on cnn.com came up with anything. Nidal was suspected to be behind the Lockerbie bombing...

[yellowking]

Why did the italians let him go anyway?? Not enough evidence? the dude came off the damn plane after highjacking a huge boat for christsake!!
Hey, I was just reading about this from "Shadow Warriors" by Clancy, Stiner and Koltz:


Meanwhile, Ambassador Rabb had presented the Italian government with a request for the arrest of Abbas preparatory to his extradition. Craxi continued to stonewall. This request, he said, "did not, in the Justice Minister's opinion, stasfy the factual and substantive requirements laid down by Italian law.... This being so, there was no longer any legal basis...[for] detaining Abbas, since at the time he was on board an aircraft which enqoyed extraterritorial status."
The Egyptians claimed the plane he was on was on a diplomatic mission, and thus had diplomatic immunity (as did Abbas, as an official PLO representative), and they would "defend, if necessary, the inviolability of the plane with arms." Still, he left the plane a couple of times, it seems to me that if Italy had any sack they could have arrested him instead of facilitating his escape.

And, technically, Abbas didn't participate directly in the highjacking. Abbas hooked up with them when they docked the Achille Lauro at Cairo.