CNN: Greek police arrest 1985 TWA aircraft hijacking suspect
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CNN: Greek police arrest 1985 TWA aircraft hijacking suspect
They got him! He has been captured by Greek police today. He was on terrorist suspect who hijacking TWA FLT#847 from ATH to Rome, Italy.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/22/europ...KQEWUaJ06TGWIM
So now, he will extradition back to Germany. Greek police are cooperating with German authorities. Long overdue!!
https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/22/europ...KQEWUaJ06TGWIM
So now, he will extradition back to Germany. Greek police are cooperating with German authorities. Long overdue!!
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They got him! He has been captured by Greek police today. He was on terrorist suspect who hijacking TWA FLT#847 from ATH to Rome, Italy.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/22/europ...KQEWUaJ06TGWIM
So now, he will extradition back to Germany. Greek police are cooperating with German authorities. Long overdue!!
https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/22/europ...KQEWUaJ06TGWIM
So now, he will extradition back to Germany. Greek police are cooperating with German authorities. Long overdue!!
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They got him! He has been captured by Greek police today. He was on terrorist suspect who hijacking TWA FLT#847 from ATH to Rome, Italy.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/22/europ...KQEWUaJ06TGWIM
So now, he will extradition back to Germany. Greek police are cooperating with German authorities. Long overdue!!
https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/22/europ...KQEWUaJ06TGWIM
So now, he will extradition back to Germany. Greek police are cooperating with German authorities. Long overdue!!
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Always considered it a blessing that our flight was not the one high jacked; we were passengers on TWA 847 from Athens to Rome within the same week. Very perplexed that it took 3 decades, but relieved that this person was caught and will face consequences for this act of terror.
https://news.yahoo.com/lebanese-man-...113123313.html
A lesson in presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty in a court of law open to the public?
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The person has been released:
https://news.yahoo.com/lebanese-man-...113123313.html
A lesson in presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty in a court of law open to the public?
https://news.yahoo.com/lebanese-man-...113123313.html
A lesson in presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty in a court of law open to the public?
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Earlier this year, for reasons that had nothing to do with names, I was flagged down by Schengen border authorities in the Netherlands as a wanted criminal from Latvia all that despite my having no more in common with the wanted Latvian criminal than I have with US President Trump. I quickly talked my way out of it at AMS, but Im curious to see how many more times I will have to do so. Its really less of a vacation when a traveler is unfairly treated as a wanted criminal, and the longer and more frequently a person is unfairly treated as a criminal, the less of a vacation that trip and future trips may be. Assuming that this now-freed Lebanese journalist is innocent of the crimes he was alleged to have committed more than three decades ago, he probably should wonder if his problems while traveling are far from over and he ends up being unfairly treated as a wanted criminal.
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