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PLF: Abbas assassinated
al-Reuters. Hat tip LGF. EFL.
Followers of Mohammed Abbas, the Palestinian mastermind of the Achille Lauro cruise ship hijacking in 1985, blamed the United States and Israel on Wednesday for his death in U.S. custody in Iraq.
| I confess! I dunnit! I shot him and threw him off the roof of the calaboose into the pool! |
Captured by American forces in Iraq nearly a year ago, the U.S. military in Baghdad confirmed the death of Abbas, 56. One U.S. official said the burly former guerrilla died of a heart attack Tuesday.
| Yep. Overfed, underexercised. There went the old arteries, chock full of butter and lard, grease, traces of turpentine... |
"We hold the Americans responsible for his death, for his assassination," said Omar Shebli, number two to Abbas in the Palestine Liberation Front (PLF).
"You canât say my lips fell off because I said âwe hold.â"
"They put him to die slowly in a prison cell, deprived of his freedom. His detention was illegal and his conditions in jail were bad," Shebli told Reuters in the Gaza Strip.
Right before his harp broke a string
| Yar! We kep' 'im in a dank, smelly dungeon! There wuz rats scamperin' acrosst 'im ever' night! An' we only did it cuz we're mean! |
He also accused Israelâs Mossad intelligence agency of helping U.S. forces "torture" Abbas, saying that Abbas had sent word to supporters that: "Mossad officers, Jewish officers, participated in the interrogation."
| Oh, heavens! Not Jewish officers! Oh, Ethel! My pills! |
Abbas, also known as "Abu Abbas," planned the hijacking of the Italian cruise liner Achille Lauro in October 1985 during which a wheel-chair bound American Jew, 69-year-old Leon Klinghoffer, was killed and thrown into the sea.
| That was Abu's contribution to the world. His Mom used to sit on the front porch of the old folks' home, telling her envious friends what a dangerous fellow her boy was. Until he shot her, anyway... |
Abbas, who was not aboard the ship during an operation that embarrassed Yasser Arafatâs Palestine Liberation and Jew Extermination Organization spent most of the past 17 years in Iraq, eluding capture by the United States and Italy. Italy freed Abbas after U.S. warplanes forced his jet to land in Sicily following the hijack, although it later sentenced him -- when he had already left -- to life in jail.
| Boy, that did a lot of good, didn't it? Kinda points out the contrast between treating terrorism is a matter for the cops and the courts on the one hand, and as a matter for the Marines on the other. |
Posted by: Steve from Relto 2004-03-10 |
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