Palestinian guerrilla leader Abu Abbas who masterminded the hijacking of an Italian cruise ship in 1985 was captured by U.S. forces and is in U.S. custody in Baghdad, CNN reported on Tuesday.
Abbas, also known as Mohammed Abbas, is the leader of the Palestinian Liberation Front, which hijacked the Achille Lauro in the eastern Mediterranean, resulting in the death of a disabled elderly American man.
This guy is the reason you can never eradicate the death penalty. What was this guy doing in Iraq? He must have missed the bus to Syria. Isn't it nice that these people that terrorize Americans have one less nation to hide in?
UPDATE: Palestinian Authority Demands U.S. Free Abu Abbas
"We demand the United States release Abu Abbas. It has no right to imprison him," Palestinian cabinet minister Saeb Erekat told Reuters.
"The Palestinian-Israeli interim agreement signed on September 28, 1995 stated that members of the Palestine Liberation Organization must not be detained or tried for matters they committed before the Oslo peace accord of September 13, 1993," he said.
That says a lot of about these kinds of agreements. Instead of fostering peace, they've become a "get out of jail free" card. Since that agreement, the suicide bombers have increased, and terrorism hasn't waned. That paper was never meant to be more than a photo op for the 1996 Presidential election. If it were a treaty, then the President would have sent it to the Senate for ratification.
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