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  Achille Lauro - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Achille Lauro was a passenger liner, most remembered for its 1985 hijacking.
In 1964, she was sold to the Lauro Line and renamed the Achille Lauro (after the former mayor of Naples, Achille Lauro).
The Achille Lauro was destroyed by fire on November 30, 1994, and sank as a result of the fire three days later on December 2.
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 Achille Lauro   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The suit was when the PLO paid an undisclosed sum Klinghoffer's daughters which was used to fund Leon and Marilyn Klinghoffer Memorial Foundation of Anti-Defamation League which works to combat terrorism through legal political and educational means.
The ship continued in service; she was in 1987 when the Lauro Line became On November 30 1994 she caught fire off the coast Somalia.
The Achille Lauro Hijacking: Lessons in the Politics and Prejudice of Terrorism
www.freeglossary.com /MS_Achille_Lauro   (643 words)

  
 Achille
In 1964, she was sold to the Lauro Line and renamed the Achille Lauro...
Achille Talon is a comic book and the name of the main character, created by Michel...
Achille Lauro continued in service until 1994 when she caught fire and sank en...
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 List of ocean liners - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Note that ships with multiple names may be listed here under each name.
MS Axel Johnson (1969), renamed Costa Marina 1990
This page was last modified 21:25, 21 July 2006.
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 Bibliography of Books
Gallucci, Margaret A. with Mary M. Gallucci and Carole C. Gallucci., trans.
McManamon, John M. Funeral oratory and the cultural ideals of Italian humanism.
The Lucca Codex: Codice Mancini, Lucca, Archivio di Stato, MS 184; Perugia, Biblioteca comunale Augusta, MS 3065.
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 Prosecute Abu Abbas
It was a murder of unimaginable cruelty, crueler even than the murder of Leon Klinghoffer, the American tourist who was shot on the Achille Lauro and dumped overboard in his wheelchair.
So he engineered the hijacking of the Achille Lauro off the coast of Egypt and demanded the release of 50 Arab terrorists from Israeli jails.
It had already convicted him of the Achille Lauro hijacking in absentia in 1986.
www.aish.com /jewishissues/middleeast/Prosecute_Abu_Abbas.asp   (1767 words)

  
 Willem Ruys - Achille Lauro   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Having completed a successful career with Royal Rotterdam Lloyd, she received an interesting rebuild to become the Italian liner Achille Lauro.
For those who sailed on the Achille Lauro, will also be delighted seeing her again, that stylish modern, delightful cruise ship
In January 1965, she was officially handed over and renamed Achille Lauro.
www.ssmaritime.com /willemruys.htm   (1029 words)

  
 Keyword   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
AP Photo Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro, 1985 On October 7, 1985 four heavily armed terrorists representing the Palestine Liberation Front (PLF) hijacked the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro, with some 100 mostly elderly passengers on board, in Egyptian waters.
Abbas's group also was responsible for the attack in 1985 on the cruise ship Achille Lauro and the killing of a US citizen.
Known for its seizing of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro and murder of a Jewish American passenger, the PLF is one of several terrorist organizations that maintain offices in Baghdad, according to...
www.freerepublic.com /focus/keyword?k=plf   (2957 words)

  
 The Islamist Threat To Civilization by Amit Ghate -- Capitalism Magazine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The film, which was written by Islamic dissident Ms.
And although the evidence showed connections with the Egyptian terrorist group, Takfir wal-Hijra, no attempts were made by the Dutch to root them out of Egypt (with or without Egyptian help).
Ms Ali, brave as she is, is no longer in hiding, but her life is clearly at risk, and she must be accompanied by bodyguards 24 hours a day.
www.capmag.com /article.asp?ID=3829   (5058 words)

  
 The Source with Paul Anderson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
She was drawn into feminist activism in the late 1980's to contribute to the ongoing effort to ensure safe and legal abortion for all women.
Bruce was elected president of the Los Angeles chapter of NOW at the age of 27.
He was involved in planning the rescue of medical students on the island of Grenada, and played a major role in the daring capture of the hijackers of the cruise ship Achille Lauro.
www.thesource.org /guests.php   (2879 words)

  
 Angelina Lauro / MS Oranje   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
All photographs on this page have been lifted from a Flotta Lauro brochure, issued in the mid sixties when she was still a two class liner.
Flotta Lauro stated in this brochure “A masterpiece of modern interior design.” She certainly was, both her interiors and exterior!
Although she retained her original funnel markings, she was marketed by Costa Lines who later chartered her outright and gave her the traditional Costa funnel, yellow with a large blue C for Costa.
www.ssmaritime.com /oranje3.htm   (380 words)

  
 NY Sports Day - How 9/11 Happened, by Ms. Coulter
In 1979, President Jimmy Carter allowed the Shah of Iran to be deposed by a mob of Islamic fanatics.
In 1985, an Italian cruise ship, the Achille Lauro, was seized and a 69-year-old American was shot and thrown overboard by Muslim extremists.
Despite of numerous warnings, most impotantly from the hart/rudman commission, he did not take terrorism seriously, He and his team "missed the boat"...there is no better evidence of this than the fact that ms rice was about to give a speech on that tragic day explaining how missle defense was the number one defense priority.
www.nysportsday.com /themofo/showthread.php?t=9178   (2178 words)

  
 1980s - tScholars.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
In 1985, A radical PLO offshoot called Palestine Liberation Front hijacks the Achille Lauro and shoots the wheelchair-bound Leon Klinghoffer, throwing him overboard.
As a carry-over from the 1970s, more and more women take to calling themselves "Ms.
No-Fault divorce laws pave the way for increased divorce rate, as depicted in the movie, Irreconcilable Differences.
www.tscholars.com /encyclopedia/1980s   (2605 words)

  
 Hey, Rat Out That Source! - Newsweek National News - MSNBC.com
NORTH WAS TALKING about the 1985 apprehension of Arab terrorists who had tossed an elderly Jewish man in a wheelchair, Leon Klinghoffer, over the side of the cruise ship Achille Lauro.
The already famous Marine colonel was accusing members of Congress of being untrustworthy because they revealed the military details of that capture.
Now Hillary Clinton favors one and John Ashcroft—who as a senator in 1997 felt that Attorney General Janet Reno could not even be trusted to investigate the narrow question of which desk Al Gore made fund-raising telephone calls from—insists that his Justice Department will conduct a full and fair probe.
msnbc.msn.com /id/3129924   (908 words)

  
 USA for Africa: Relive 1985-1986   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Mikhail Gorbachev becomes leader of Soviet Union and initiates glasnost and Perestroika, a broad program of reform and liberalization.
Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro is highjacked in the Mediterranean
Coca-Cola attempts to change its 99-year-old forumla in an effort to attract younger drinkers.
www.usaforafrica.org /relive/index.htm   (297 words)

  
 John Derbyshire on National Review Online
He was the 69-year-old disabled vacationer rewarding himself for a lifetime of hard work with a cruise on the liner Achille Lauro in 1985 when a gang of Palestinian terrorists decided to "send a message." They hijacked the ship and, in a moment of playfulness, shot Klinghoffer in his wheelchair as his wife looked on.
The mastermind terrorist behind that bold operation on the Achille Lauro was Abu Abbas, a particularly nasty piece of work, even by Palestinian standards.
He is, at any rate, a man of consequence and power, prospering in his wickedness.
www.nationalreview.com /derbyshire/derbyshire051502.asp   (2352 words)

  
 Everything about Francis Drake   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
A similarly-named poem was written by the late Victorian poetess Norah M. Holland.
The perpetrators of these acts could be described as pirates (for instance, the French for plane hijacker is pirate de l'air), but in English are usually termed hijackers or terrorists.
An example is the hijacking of the Italian civilian passenger ship, the Achille Lauro.
wikimiki.org /en/Francis+Drake   (11370 words)

  
 CRG -- Getting used to the idea of double standards: The underlying maxim is "we will punish the crimes of our enemies ...
Yet on July 14th he was allowed to leave Dubai on a private jet and there were no Navy fighters waiting to force him down.
In 1985 Oliver North ­ the only member of the Reagan-Bush years who doesn't appear to have a hand in the current war - sent the Navy and commandos after terrorists on the cruise ship Achille Lauro.
In his 1991 autobiography "Under Fire," while describing terrorist Abu Abbas, North wrote, "I used to wonder: how many dead Americans will it take before we do something?" One could look at the number of Americans Osama bin Laden is alleged to have killed before September 11 and ask the same question.
globalresearch.ca /articles/RUP112A.html   (2451 words)

  
 jaybaz [MS] WebLog : Bush supports Amnesty International
It's one thing to be just on your site but it's pathetic that it shows up on their website.
If Bush would have never had been in office, then MS would more then likely have been cut into pieces during the anti-trust lawsuits.
Let this be said to the gentleman who mentioned "America, in short, has become a criminal nation, and it must be stopped"...take your ideologically points and put them in the context of a well formed argument.
blogs.msdn.com /jaybaz_MS/archive/2004/11/06/253369.aspx   (11509 words)

  
 Mike's America
The other man was released as part of a May 1985 prisoner exchange - 1,150 Arab terrorists for three Israeli prisoners-of-war held in Lebanon - but Kuntar was not included in the deal.
Several months later, the PLF seized the Achille Lauro, an Italian cruise ship, demanding that Israel release Kuntar, along with other Palestinian prisoners.
McKinney hasn't made many friends since then, especially in her district as she was a no show for two televised debates with her rivals.
mikesamerica.blogspot.com   (8815 words)

  
 radiofre
While providing capital to conduct the CIA’s "secret" war in Laos, this traffic resulted in an epidemic of heroin addiction among GI’s stationed in Vietnam and, ultimately, added to the flow of the drug into the United States itself.
The program documents the involvement of elements of U.S. intelligence with Monzer Al-Kassar; with the Gander, Newfoundland crash of December 1985; the Achille Lauro hi-jacking; the formation and installation of fundamentalist forces in Iran as well as their takeover of the U.S. Embassy; and other key events in the terrorism of the 1970s and 80s.
Of particular interest is the landmark research of Farah Mansoor, a member of the Iranian resistance whose historic research on the rise of the Khomeini regime documents the decisive role of the United States in developing Islamic fundamentalist forces in that country as the anti-communist successors to the Shah's government.
www.spitfirelist.com /rfa.html   (12251 words)

  
 conservative-insurgent.blog-city.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
At the end of Black September, Great Britain releases Ms.
After 17 days in captivity, the hostages are transported to Damascus, Syria, and released.
Four heavily armed Palestinian terrorists from the Popular Liberation Front hijack the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro, carrying more than 400 passengers and crew, off Egypt.
www.conservative-insurgent.blog-city.com   (5550 words)

  
 July 1 Events in History
July 1, 1966 80th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: M Santana beats D Ralston (64 11-9 64)
July 1, 1862 Battle of Holly Spring, MS July 1, 1862 Internal Revenue Law imposes 1st federal taxes on inheritance, tobacco and on incomes over $600 (progressive rate)
July 1, 1861 1st public schoolhouse opens at Washington and Mason St, SF July 1, 1861 War Department decrees the KA and Tennessee are to be canvassed for volunteers
www.brainyhistory.com /days/july_1.html   (3353 words)

  
 PoliBlog
Intriguing: Achille Lauro Mastermind Abu Abbas Captured in Iraq
Similarly, a high percentage of friendly fire deaths out of a relatively small number of overall deaths, means nothing.
It is as if in the face of overwhelming success in the campaign, she had to find something negative to say.
poliblogblog.blogspot.com   (10082 words)

  
 Being American in T.O.: War on Terror Archives   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
It shouldn't need to be said that the destruction of Hezbollah would at long last achieve justice for the 241 U.S. servicemen who died in 1983 when the Marine Barracks in Beirut was bombed.
Those who think that was a long time ago and we should forget about it may not have noticed the roar accompanying the 2003 capture of the Abu Abbas who planned the assault on the Achille Lauro and the murder of one man - Leon Klinghoffer - because we.don't.forget.
A paper trail shows that more than $1 million has been funneled from Bakr M. Bin Laden on behalf of the Saudi Bin Laden Group to The Carter Center.
debbyestratigacos.mu.nu /archives/cat_war_on_terror.html   (13472 words)

  
 Old Patriot's Pen
We're planning a wedding for my youngest daughter on July 3rd, I've been doing some drainage mapping for a friend of mine, and we've started taking care of a couple of year-old boys, children of friends of my daughter's who got pregnant before they finished high school, and are now trying to catch up.
Add to that my daily bout with sciatica, mid-back pain, neck pain, headaches, and just plain grouchies, plus my wife's continued problems with MS, and it fills the day!
Things are just as hectic today, but most of what has to be done has been taken care of already.
oldpatriot.blogspot.com   (10161 words)

  
 Raging Grannies Arrested At Recruiting Center : AZ IMC
Then in August 1985 a Volkswagen loaded with explosives is driven into the main gate of the US Air Force Base at Rhein-Main, 22 are killed and the snooze alarm is buzzing louder and louder as US interests are continually attacked.
Fifty-nine days later in 1985 a cruise ship, the Achille Lauro is hijacked and we watched as an American in a wheelchair is singled out of the passenger list and executed.
The terrorists then shift their tactics to bombing civilian airliners when they bomb TWA Flight 840 in April of 1986 that killed 4 and the most tragic bombing, Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988, killing 259.
arizona.indymedia.org /news/2005/07/28573_comment.php   (12039 words)

  
 NEMO Guestbook
I lost some marionettes in a fire at sea on the Achille Lauro and that was pretty terrible - but to lose a theatre and whole cast of puppets - all that work, all that creativity!
Signed: Chelsea M. 4:59 PM EDT - Wed, Oct 22, 1997
I saw your production of "Tosca" this evening and was extremely impressed.
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