80's Terrorist Cruise Ship

Cruise ships docking in the Eastern Mediterranean are at.

80's terrorist cruise ship. News reports report that the bombings were committed by a Turkey-based Kurdish militant group identified in the New York Times as the Kurdistan Freedom Falcons or TAK. Achille Lauro hijacking. 7 1985 off the coast of Egypt four gunmen hijacked the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro and demanded the release of Palestinian prisoners in Egypt Italy and elsewhere.

Sinking a ship using a boat-borne IED. James Stavridis at a NATO meeting. 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.

AP PhotoSalah Ben Mohamed. When I was a kid my family lived in Tripoli Libya starting in 1965 until the 80s. The Costa cruise ship Costa Fascinosa was also in port at Tunis at the time of the attack.

The hijacking of the Achille Lauro in 1985 resulted in death of one passenger. The security implementations regarding cruise ships are relatively worthless in that they submit travel itineraries and fingerprints to Homeland Security but do nothing in the way of preventing state-sponsored terrorism. James Stavridis thinks one of the most lucrative targets that terrorists could potentially attack is cruise ships with little in the way of.

Many perceptions of maritime terrorism risks do not align with the reality of threats and vulnerabilities. After the 911 terrorist attacks al-Qaida had plans to attack the most famous of cruise ships the Queen Mary 2 as she transited the Mediterranean. All-Inclusive Price Drinks included no extra fees.

And cruise ships by auditing the soundness of vessel and facility secu-rity practices by improving security measures at ports for passengers and luggage and by implementing rigorous procedures for document-ing crew and staff. In the last of these in 1994 the ship caught fire and sank in the Indian Ocean off. As noted above in 2005 an al Qaedalinked militant Luai Sakra was implicated in a strike of this sort against Israeli cruise ships carrying tourists to Turkey.