Daily Mail: Greek police arrest man accused of brutal killing of US Navy diver whose body was dumped on Beirut airport tarmac during 17-day hijacking of TWA flight 847 in 1985
* TWA Flight 847 was hijacked in Athens on June 14, 1985 by Hezbollah who demanded the release of 700 Shi'ite Muslims from Israeli custody
* The jet was held for 17 days and forced to fly across the Mediterranean between Beirut and Algiers
* Some passengers were threatened and some beaten
* US Navy diver Robert Stethem was shot by the terrorists in Beirut and his body was thrown onto the apron
* The suspect, Mohammed Ali Hamadi, was later captured and sentenced to life imprisonment in Germany
* Hamadi was imprisoned in 1987 in West Germany for 19 years, but was paroled in 2005
* Hammadi rejoined Hezbollah upon his release from German prison and in 2007, the FBI announced a new $5 million reward for information leading to his recapture
* He was re-arrested in by police in Mykonos, Greece on September 21, 2019 after getting off a cruise ship
* Hezbollah denies culpability in the hijacking, among its denials of numerous other attacks they are blamed for
A Lebanese man accused of involvement in the hijacking of a TWA plane and the murder of a US navy diver has been arrested in Greece, police said on Saturday.
The 65-year-old was spotted by policemen in the island of Mykonos and detained on Thursday, a statement said.
Greek authorities said there was a European arrest warrant issued by Germany for the hijacking as well as a kidnapping committed in 1987.
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WNU Editor: He was paroled in 2005 by Germany, even though Washington demanded that he be extradited to the U.S.. It looks like he went back to Hezbollah to plot more attacks, hence the re-arrest. My memories of this hijacking are still vivid. Not only the brutal killing of a U.S. Navy diver who was a passenger aboard the plane, but how Germany completely caved into the terrorist demands.
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