Report: U.S. drone kills Hizbollah terrorist who hijacked TWA Flight 847, killed Navy diver Robert Stethem
Posted on June 22, 2010 by creeping
via Lebanese Forces Official Website Hizbullah's Mohammad Ali Hamadeh Killed in U.S. Attack in Pakistan.
Lebanese citizen Mohammad Ali Hamadeh has been killed in Saturday's U.S. drone attack on al-Qaida hideout in Pakistan's North Waziristan, the German news agency DPA reported.
Citing intelligence sources in Pakistan, DPA said Hamadeh, a Hizbullah member, was killed along with a group of followers.
DPA has it that Hamadeh returned to Lebanon in December 2005 after being secretly released in Germany, where he was serving a life sentence for the 1985 hijacking of a TWA jetliner and killing of a U.S. navy diver.
It had said Hamadeh had been released from a German prison in 2005 on bail after spending nearly 19 years in prison.
DPA, citing intelligence information, said Hamadeh fought along Hizbullah before moving to North Waziristan where he joined "Islamic Jihad" which has links to al-Qaida.
A U.S. drone attack on Saturday destroyed an al-Qaida hideout in North Waziristan, killing 11 militants in the tribal redoubt on the Afghan border, security officials said.
Hat tip to a reader who left us a note of this news on a post we did two years ago, Muslims hijack TWA Flight 847, kill American 23 years ago today.
…on June 14,1985 two armed hijackers commandered TWA flight 847 in a 17 day seige. The Boeing 727 aircraft was originally destined to departure from Athens to Rome on this day,when the two weilding grenades and guns forced the pilot in making a avert change of course towards Beruit. I remember the incident as if was yesterday,because I had graduated from junior high that very day. 
Accordingly to witnesses aboard flight 847,the ordeal began within 20 minutes into the flight. There were 153 passengers aboard, including the two who identified themselves as members of Hezbollah. The aircraft was to be flown to Beruit at first. The hijackers became suspicious that there military personel on board. Passports from everyone was taken from everyone for identification. In the story from airline purser Uli Derickson,she helped collected all passports with other crew members. When she got to one passenger, Robert Stethem a U.S. Navy seabee diver,it was pretended that Uli collected his identification(a military card) for his own safety.
When Stethem's I.D. was not collected,one of the hijackers demanded to know why it wasn't given. Soon afterwards the I.D. was finally submitted. When the Boeing 727 was near its destination,there was a refusal by Beruit International Tower from allowing it to land. The gunmen then grabbed Stethem and another military officer(Clinton Suggs) out of their seats and pushed and shoved them towards the cockpit door. Both men were bounded with rope. One of the gunmen pulled off a armrest off one of the chairs and began to lower it on Sugg's head beating him,then on Stethem. When Uli Derickson pleaded the savage to stop"Good. American pig must suffer!" the hate spilled out from his mouth. When the aircraft was permitted to land,the beatings stopped.
Benjamin Zimmerman,the flight engineer,testified in Mohammed Hummadi's trial of the beatings of both servicemen. "We could hear the groans and moans and the screams and the panting and the uneven breathing. And we knew these guys were getting beat up pretty badly…"
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