1985 The Cruise Ship Achille Lauro

Achille Lauro hijacking hijacking of the Italian cruise ship the MS Achille Lauro on Oct.

1985 the cruise ship achille lauro. As such only 97 remained onboard. On 3 October 1985 the Achille Lauro left Genoa Italy for a 12-day cruise in the Mediterranean Sea with 748 passengers. MS Achille Lauro the Infamous October Cruise in 1985.

Death of Klinghoffer. Gunmen hijack Italian cruise liner Palestinian militants have hijacked an Italian cruise liner the Achille Lauro in the Mediterranean and threatened to blow it up. They were to rendezvous with the ship hours later at Port Said.

1985 October 07 Palestinian terrorists hijack an Italian cruise ship Four Palestinian terrorists board the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro shortly after it left Alexandria Egypt in order to. In October 1985 four Palestinian terrorists hijacked the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro in the Mediterranean. The Achille Lauro Hijacking These sons of bitches must be prosecuted 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.

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak persuaded the hijackers to surrender but not before they shot to death a wheelchair-bound Jewish passenger from the United States named Leon. Four Palestinian terrorists stormed into the ships dining room shooting their. The hijackers took the more than 400 passengers and crew members hostage and demanded the.

The MS Achille Lauro caught on fire and sank 125 miles off the coast of Somalia while I was working on board as a crew member. The Achille Lauro left Genoa Italy on October 3 for a 12-day cruise of the Mediterranean Sea. Built between 1939 and 1947 as MS Willem Ruys a passenger liner for the Rotterdamsche Lloyd she was hijacked by members of the Palestine Liberation Front in 1985.

The Palestinian guerrilla leader who masterminded the 1985 hijacking of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro in which a disabled American tourist. In October 1985 four members of the Palestine Liberation Front took control of the liner off Egypt as she was sailing from Alexandria to Port Said. A 69 year old Jewish American man in a wheelchair Leon Klinghoffer was murdered by the hijackers and thrown overboard.