Italian Cruise Ship Hijacked

The four hijackers of the cruise liner Achille Lauro hijacked in turn by US F-14 fighters faced interrogation yesterday by an Italian magistrate while Washington and.

Italian cruise ship hijacked. The ships hijacking was premature and not the plan of the terrorists on board. The three incidents provide the dovish Obama with. 7 1985 by four Palestinian militants associated with a faction of the Palestine Liberation Front PLF.

On October 7 1985 four men including mastermind Muhammad Zaidan aka Mohammed Abul al-Abbas from the Palestine Liberation Front PLF hijacked the Italian MS Achille Lauro liner off the coast of Egypt as she was sailing from Alexandria to Ashdod Israel. On October 7th 1985 the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro was hijacked by four members of the Palestine Liberation Front off the coast of Alexandria Egypt. Twenty-five years ago today on October 7 1985 the Italian cruise ship the MS Achille Lauro was hijacked by four Palestinian militants associated with a faction of the Palestine Liberation Front.

The Italian cruise ship was hijacked in 1985 by four terrorists members of the Front for the Liberation of Palestine. Achille Lauro hijacking hijacking of the Italian cruise ship the MS Achille Lauro on Oct. The hijackers took the more than 400 passengers and crew members hostage and demanded.

Klinghoffer was disabled and in a wheelchair the terrorists shot him in the chest and head and then forced two crew members to dump him and the wheelchair he was confined. On 7 October 1985 four Palestinian terrorists hijacked the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro as it was sailing from Alexandria Egypt to Ashdod Israel. The gunmen are demanding the release of 50 Palestinian prisoners held in Israel.

In October 1985 what was the name of the Italian cruise ship hijacked by Palestinian terrorists. They murdered Leon Klinghoffer an elderly wheelchair-bound American Jew and took some 320 crewmembers and 80 passengers hostage. Named after the chairman of the company that came to own her the ship her keel was laid in 1939 suffered an onboard explosion in.

Achille Lauro Show Answer. The Achille Lauro left Genoa Italy on October 3 for a 12-day cruise of the Mediterranean Sea. Four Palestinian terrorists board the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro shortly after it left Alexandria Egypt in order to hijack the luxury liner.