AFM – Limpet Mines removed from Palestine Liberation Organization yacht ANGEL – 21.08.1987
After the Lebanon War the Israeli government was rather confident to secure the last strategic peace with the northern neighbour. To the Israeli Navy, Hezbollah at first was no enemy. The terrorists acted only in Lebanon and ashore of which they had no boats at their disposal and no move to carry out terror attacks […]
Hijacking – ACHILLE LAURO on 7th October 1985
34 Years Ago – on Monday 7th October 1985 the Italian passenger liner ACHILLE LAURO was hijacked by four men representing the Palestine Liberation Front off the coast of Egypt, while on passage from Alexandria to Ashdod, Israel. A 69 year old Jewish American man in a wheelchair, Leon Klinghoffer, was murdered by the hijackers and thrown overboard. The […]
32 Years Ago ACHILLE LAURO was hijacked. On 7th October,1985 four men representing the Palestine Liberation Front (PLF) hijacked the Italian cruise liner ACHILLE LAURO off the coast of Egypt, as she was sailing from Alexandria, Egypt to Ashdod, Israel. The hijacking was organized by Muhammad Zaidan (a.k.a Muhammad Abu Abbas), leader of the PLF. A 69-year-old Jewish American […]
