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	BORR Terrorism News: U.S., Italy Consult Over Abu Abbas Extradition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Abbas, seen in this 1996 file photo, was convicted in absentia in Italy in 1986 and sentenced to life in prison for planning the 1985 hijacking of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro.
		Abbas was convicted in absentia in Italy in 1986 and sentenced to life in prison for planning the 1985 hijacking of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro.
		Abbas, who was not on board the ship during the attack, later renounced violence and had lived mainly in Baghdad for the last 17 years.
	www.borrull.org /e/noticia.php?id=16679 (489 words)

	CNN.com - U.S. captures mastermind of Achille Lauro hijacking - Apr. 16, 2003
		Abu Abbas, the Palestinian terrorist who masterminded the 1985 hijacking of the cruise ship Achille Lauro, was arrested by U.S. forces outside Baghdad.
		Abu Abbas, a convicted Palestinian terrorist who masterminded the 1985 hijacking of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro on which a wheelchair-bound American was killed, was captured by U.S. Special Forces in the outskirts of Baghdad, U.S. Central Command said Tuesday.
		Abbas was a member of the Palestinian National Congress and occasionally traveled to the Palestinian territories, though his movements there were restricted.
	www.cnn.com /2003/WORLD/meast/04/15/sprj.irq.abbas.arrested (853 words)

	Achille Lauro Mastermind Abu Abbas Captured in Iraq (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Abbas, also known as Mohammed Abbas, was sentenced in absentia in Italy to life in prison for planning the hijacking of the Italian cruise ship in the eastern Mediterranean.
		Abbas, who is now in his mid-50s, has spent much of the last 17 years in Iraq.
		The Israeli Supreme Court declared Abbas immune from prosecution in Israel over the Achille Lauro in 1999 after he was allowed to return to Gaza by an Israeli Security Committee which had concluded that he had renounced violence.
	www.rense.com /general37/UScapturesAbuAbbas.htm (697 words)

	Mansur (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Certainly Abu Nasr Mansur worked on many topics as a result of requests from al-Biruni and a total of twenty-five works are known to have been written by him.
		Abu Nasr Mansur's main achievements are his commentry on the Spherics of Menelaus, his role in the development of trigonometry from Ptolemy's calculation with chords towards the trigonometric functions used today, and his development of a set of tables which give easy numerical solutions to typical problems of spherical astronomy.
		Abu Nasr Mansur's reworking of the Spherics of Menelaus is particularly important since the Greek original of Menelaus work has been lost, although there are several Arabic versions.
	www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /~history/Mathematicians/Mansur.html (1191 words)

	Townhall.com :: Columns :: Welcome, Abu Abbas (and you're under arrest) by Paul Greenberg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The outfit Abu Abbas heads -- the Palestine Liberation Front -- has been officially designated a terrorist organization by the State Department, and a life sentence is waiting for him in Italy, where the authorities requested his extradition as soon as he was caught in Baghdad last week.
		Abu Abbas, aka Abul Abbas, is one of the smellier fish caught in the gigantic net thrown over Iraq by the United States Army, Marines, special ops, CIA, FBI and associated We Never Forget teams.
		Abbas himself was the middle-man in transferring $25,000 apiece to any family who'd contribute a suicide bomber to the cause.
	www.townhall.com /columnists/paulgreenberg/pg20030424.shtml (825 words)

	The Palestinian Liberation Front- Headed by Abu al-Abbas as a tool of
		Abu al-Abbas, one of the perpetrators who was on the flight, was detained and then released by the Italian authorities.
		Bassam al-Ashqar (Abu Mustafa), who is repeatedly cited as involved in the direction from Iraq of PLF terrorists, is known to have been a member of the terrorist squad that hijacked the Achille Lauro.
		Hisham Abu Raya, according to captured documents, is one of the PLF leaders in the West Bank, currently residing in Ramallah.
	www.globalsecurity.org /security/library/report/2002/plf.htm (3190 words)

	Palestinian Abu Abbas in U.S. Custody in Iraq
		Abbas, also known as Mohammed Abbas, is the leader of the Palestine Liberation Front, which hijacked the Achille Lauro in the eastern Mediterranean, resulting in the death of a disabled elderly American man, Leon Klinghoffer.
		Abu Abbas as described in this article, and Abu Nidal whose death in Baghdad in 2002 where he had gone for asylum was ruled a suicide (with four bullets in his head).
		Abbas was convicted by an Italian court in absentia for plotting the hijacking and sentenced to life in prison.
	www.papillonsartpalace.com /palabuestin.htm (3007 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Middle East \| Abbas: Palestinian throwback
		Abu Abbas was a throwback to an earlier generation of Palestinian fighters, who carried out spectacular acts of hijacking around the world to draw attention to their cause.
		Abu Abbas was from a time when the West Bank and Gaza were wholly under Israeli control and Palestinians could not carry out attacks inside Israel very easily.
		Abu Abbas made an apology of sorts later, saying that the shooting had been a "mistake".
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/middle_east/2952879.stm (620 words)

	USATODAY.com - Terror fugitive Abu Abbas caught in Baghdad (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Abu Abbas, the leader of a Palestinian terror group that hijacked a cruise ship in the Mediterranean Sea in 1985 and killed an American passenger, has been captured by U.S. military forces in Baghdad.
		Abu Abbas is seen during a press conference in Gaza City Monday April 22, 1996 after years in exile.
		Abbas, who is alleged by U.S. officials to have plotted the hijacking of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro, had been living in a Baghdad suburb under the protection of Saddam Hussein.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2003-04-15-abbas-captured_x.htm (612 words)

	CNN.com - Italy wants mastermind of Achille Lauro hijacking - Apr. 16, 2003
		Lisa and Ilsa Klinghoffer talk to CNN's Paula Zahn about the arrest of Abu Abbas, the mastermind behind the 1985 cruise ship hijacking in which their father was killed.
		Abbas has been sentenced to five life terms in absentia in Italy on 1986, and was also wanted by the United States.
		Abbas is general director of the Palestinian Liberation Front, one of multiple offshoots of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
	www.cnn.com /2003/WORLD/meast/04/16/sprj.irq.abbas.arrested (884 words)

	Senator Clinton Urges Defense Department to Deliver Achille Lauro Hijacking Mastermind Abu Abbas to U.S. For Prosecution (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Abbas was responsible for planning the 1985 hijacking of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro which resulted in the horrific murder of U.S. citizen and New York resident Leon Klinghoffer.
		Abbas was recently captured by U.S. forces when he attempted to leave Iraq for Syria and is currently being held prisoner by U.S. forces in Iraq.
		Since Abu Abbas is responsible for the murder of a U.S. citizen, he is subject to U.S. indictment and prosecution.
	clinton.senate.gov /~clinton/news/2003/2003428523.html (424 words)

	ITALY SEEKS EXTRADITION AFTER ABU ABBAS SEIZED IN BAGHDAD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Abu Abbas, the nomme du guerre of Mohammed Abbas, led a faction of the Palestine Liberation Front, an Iraqi-sponsored terrorist splinter group, which the US listed as evidence of Saddam Hussein’s involvement in global terror.
		Abbas had eluded arrest since the Italian cruise liner, Achille Lauro, was hijacked as it sailed from Egypt to Israel in October 1985.
		Abbas also is accused of organizing the gang of terrorists that attempted to launch a killing spree against Israelis on Tel Aviv beaches in 1990.
	www.icej.org /cgi-local/view.cgi?type=headline&artid=2003/04/16/554865616 (333 words)

	Encyclopedia: Abu Abbas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Muhammad Zaidan (also known as Abu Abbas and Muhammad Abbas) (December 10, 1948 â“ March 8, 2004) was a Palestinian terrorist.
		The founder and leader of a paramilitary terrorist group the Palestine Liberation Front, his notoriety in the West is mostly due to the murder of Leon Klinghoffer, an elderly, wheelchair-bound Jewish-American, who was shot dead and thrown overboard, during the 1985 hijacking of the Italian cruise ship the Achille Lauro, which Zaidan planned and instigated.
		Italy (whose government had previously let Abu Abbas leave the country without being arrested) sentenced Zaidan in absentia to five terms of life imprisonment for his role in the Achille Lauro hijacking, and he was also wanted in the United States for crimes including terrorism, piracy, and murder.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Abu-Abbas (1853 words)

	Mahmoud Abbas [Abu Mazen]
		Along with Yasser Arafat, Abbas was one of the primary founders of Fatah, which has held the majority of representatives in the Palestine Liberation Organization since its formation in 1964.
		Abbas was selected to be the Secretary General of the PLO Executive Committee in 1996, and in 1998, Arafat reportedly told US president Bill Clinton that his successor would be Mahmoud Abbas.
		Abbas received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Law from the University of Damascus, and a Ph.D in History from the Oriental College of Moscow in the early 1980s, he is also the father of two sons.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/palestine/mahmoud_abbas.htm (632 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Middle East \| Fugitive hijacker 'held in Baghdad'
		Abbas eluded capture at the time but was convicted in absentia by a court in Italy for masterminding the attack.
		Abbas and the group he led, a faction of the Palestine Liberation Front (PLF), have been based in Iraq for the past 17 years.
		Abu Abbas, also known as Mohammed Abbas, had been mentioned by President George W Bush as an example of the kind of figure given refuge by the former regime of Saddam Hussein.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/middle_east/2951615.stm (464 words)

	Mahmoud Abu Abbas captured in Baghdad
		Mahmoud Zidan Abu el Abbas, the mastermind of the Achille Lauro hijacking, was arrested on the outskirts of Baghdad by U.S. Special Forces late Monday night.
		Abu Abbas, the secretary-general of the Palestinian Liberation Front (PLF), is responsible for the 1985 hijacking of an Italian cruise ship, the Achille Lauro, during which 500 passengers were taken hostage.
		In 1999, the Israeli Supreme Court declared Abbas immune from prosecution in Israel over the Achille Lauro, after he was allowed to return to Gaza by a Security Committee which had concluded that he had renounced violence.
	www.ict.org.il /spotlight/det.cfm?id=886 (847 words)

	US to hand over Abu Abbas
		Abbas, who masterminded the hijacking of the Italian cruise ship "Achille Lauro" off the coast of Egypt in 1985, died on Monday in US custody in Iraq.
		Abbas, who was not on the ship at the time, apologised for the killing of Klinghoffer in 1996, when Israel permitted him to visit the Gaza Strip as part of an amnesty deal.
		Abbas was a member of the Palestinian National Council, a group former US President Bill Clinton addressed in 1998 as part of an American effort to advance the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.
	www.news24.com /News24/AnanziArticle/0,,2-10-1462_1497755,00.html (418 words)

	U.S. says Abu Abbas not immune under 1995 deal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Abu Abbas, also known as Mohammed Abbas, masterminded the 1985 hijacking of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro in the Mediterranean in which a disabled elderly American Jewish passenger, Leon Klinghoffer, was shot and thrown overboard.
		Abu Abbas was sentenced in absentia in Italy to life in prison for planning the hijacking.
		Abbas, who is being sheltered in Arafat's Palestinian Authority territory, has admitted that he masterminded the 1985 hijacking in which his agents murdered Leon Klinghoffer, an elderly, wheelchair-bound American tourist aboard the Achille Lauro.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/894467/posts (1208 words)

	Keep custody
		U.S. Special Forces' capture of Palestinian terrorist Abu Abbas in Baghdad shows the United States is making good on its pledge to hunt down terrorists as long as it takes.
		Abbas, now 55, masterminded the 1985 Achille Lauro hijacking in which Palestinian Liberation Front (PLF) killers shot 69-year-old U.S. tourist Leon Klinghoffer in the head, then shoved him in his wheelchair overboard into the Mediterranean.
		The Palestinian Authority, with stunning hypocrisy, is demanding Abbas be freed on grounds a 1995 Oslo Accords interim deal between the PA and Israel, and signed by then-President Clinton, granted amnesty for violent acts committed before 1993.
	www.enquirer.com /editions/2003/04/17/editorial_abbas17lang.html (416 words)

	Townhall.com :: Columns :: The death of Abu Abbas -- and hope in the Middle East by Paul Greenberg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		For Abu Abbas had moved steadily up in the terrorist ranks over the years, becoming chief of his own faction, the Palestinian Liberation Front.
		Abu Abbas, among others, was granted amnesty and returned to Gaza.
		When arrested by American special forces, Abu Abbas was found with several Lebanese and Yemeni passports and a small arsenal of weapons, including rocket-propelled grenades.
	www.townhall.com /columnists/paulgreenberg/pg20040322.shtml (770 words)

	[Deathwatch] Abu Abbas, Achille Lauro hijacker, 55 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		When Abbas was captured, the Palestinian Authority demanded his release, saying the United States had pledged not to prosecute him as part of a blanket promise not to press charges against Palestinians who acted against Israel before interim peace accords were signed in the 1990s.
		Abbas, 55, was a member of the PLO's executive committee, but left in 1991.
		At that time, Israeli attorney general Elyakim Rubinstein said Abu Abbas did not pose a threat to Israeli security, and that it would be unreasonable to prosecute him for acts committed before 1993.
	slick.org /pipermail/deathwatch/2004-March/000659.html (393 words)

	Should Israel Try Abu Abbas? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Abu Abbas, a PLO Executive Council member and head of the Palestine Liberation Front (PLF), is wanted in the United States for the hijacking of Americans on the Achille Lauro cruise liner and the murder of the wheelchair-bound Jewish American citizen Leon Klinghoffer in 1985.
		Abbas was permitted to move to and live in Gaza in 1998, after he claimed to "support" the Oslo Process.
		Darshan-Leitner is representing a civil suit in the Jerusalem District Court against Abu Abbas and the PLO on behalf of survivors of the Achille Lauro hijacking.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/896056/posts (1150 words)

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