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	Robert Stethem - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Robert Stethem was born in Waterbury, Connecticut, but grew up in Waldorf, Maryland.
		Stethem was posthumously awarded the Purple Heart and Bronze Star.
		He was tried and convicted of Stethem's murder in Germany and was sentenced to life imprisonment.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Robert_Stethem (342 words)

	Subject (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The year was 1985 and Robert was a 23 year old Navy enlisted man, a diver, who was returning to his home in Charles County from an assignment in the Middle East when commercial jetliner TWA 847 was hijacked in Athens, Greece by terrorists (Shi’ites with the Hizballah group).
		Throughout the ordeal, Robert Stethem did not yield, and instead encouraged his fellow passengers to endure by his example.
		Robert graduated in 1980 from Thomas Stone High School and also attended classes at the vocational tech center.
	www.us2000.org /mark/012302.htm (225 words)

	The Flagship
		Stethem’s father, Richard Stethem, was invited on board the guided-missile destroyer Stethem Dec. 6 to join the crew and observe tactical Tomahawk missile testing.
		Stethem was only 23 years old when he was beaten, tortured and murdered by Hizbollah Shiite terrorists June 15, 1985.
		Stethem is the 13th ship of the Arleigh Burke-class of Aegis guided-missile destroyers, and was christened July 16, 1994, by Patricia Stethem, mother of the ship’s namesake.
	www.flagshipnews.com /archives_2003/dec182003_12.shtml (619 words)

	The American Thinker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Robert Dean Stethem was singled out, beaten beyond recognition and tortured in order to make him scream into a transmitter (so that the tower would send a fuel truck).
		As bad as Robert was beaten, he had the courage and strength to comfort and console her.
		While Robert was being dragged to the door, he knew that all he had to do in order to live was to cry into that transmitter, but he wouldn’t do it.
	americanthinker.com /comments.php?comments_id=4133 (728 words)

	DDG 63 Stethem
		Stethem and her two small boats patrolled the seas in the vicinity of the crash for twenty hours while engaged in recovery efforts, for which she was awarded the U.S. Coast Guard Meritorious Unit Commendation Medal.
		Stethem sailed to the Arabian Gulf for her maiden overseas deployment in May and reported for duties in Bahrain on July 3.
		The thunderbolts signify the firepower of USS STETHEM.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/agency/navy/ddg-63.htm (1657 words)

	Encyclopedia: Robert Stethem
		German authorities deny the release is connected to the hostage case of Susanne Osthoff, a German citizen who was taken hostage in northern Iraq in November 2005 and released on December 18.
		Mohammed Ali Hammadi aka Mohammed Ali Hamadi, is a man of Lebanese origin and a member of the Hezbollah group that is accused of being involved in the 1985 hijacking of TWA Flight 847 and the subsequent murder of American Navy diver Robert Stethem.
		Robert was on his way home after a tour of duty with the US Navy in the Middle East.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Robert-Stethem (1132 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Stethem is named in honor of Petty Officer Second Class Robert Dean Stethem (1961-1985), posthumously awarded the Purple Heart and a Bronze Star for heroism exhibited when he and other passengers and crew of Trans World Airlines flight 847 were taken hostage by terrorists at Athens, Greece on June 14, 1985.
		Stethem is 505 feet in length, has a beam of 66 feet and displaces approximately 8,600 tons fully loaded.
		Stethem was posthumously awarded the Purple Heart in 1985 and Bronze Star in 1986 for his heroism and bravery during the terrorist hijacking.
	www.chinfo.navy.mil /navpalib/ships/destroyers/stethem/commissi.txt (633 words)

	Robert Stethem (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Robert Stethem (November 17, 1961 - June 15, 1985) was a United States Navy diver and steelworker second class.
		Robert Stethem was born in Waterbury, Connecticut,but grew up in Waldorf, Maryland.
		He was returning from an assignment in Nea Makri, Greece aboard TWA Flight 847 when it was hijacked by members of the Lebanese terrorist organization Hizbullah.They demanded the release of 435 Lebanese and Palestinian prisoners held by Israel.
	www.therfcc.org /robert-stethem-289306.html (257 words)

	Robert Stethem (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Robert Stethem was a United States Navy diver and steelworker second class.
		Stethem was single out by the hijackers due to his being a member of the US military.
		Stethem was posthumously awarded the Purple Heart and Bronze Star and was buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
	portaljuice.com /robert_stethem.html (172 words)

	THE USS STETHEM PROUD FAMILIES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Robert Dean Stethem was ``a proud kid,'' his dad said, from a proud Navy family.
		Robert died in June 1985, repeatedly, brutally beaten, then shot, then dropped to die to the tarmac at Beirut airport by Lebanese hijackers of TWA flight 847.
		Robert, returning with fellow Navy divers to the States from an assignment in Athens when the plane was hijacked to Lebanon, was the only passenger murdered.
	scholar.lib.vt.edu /VA-news/VA-Pilot/issues/1995/vp951026/10260001.htm (339 words)

	CNN - Warship named for peacetime hero - Oct. 22, 1995 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Stethem, a former Navy Seabee, was killed in June 1985 during the hijacking of a TWA jet in Lebanon.
		Stethem, a passenger on the flight, was singled out by the terrorists because of his military status.
		His father, Robert Stethem, said the ceremony was "an honor for us and an honor for him, but for Rob, it would have been almost embarrassing because he would have really been humbled by it." (113K AIFF sound or 113K WAV sound)
	edition.cnn.com /US/9510/destroyer (390 words)

	STETHEM'S HISTORY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		USS STETHEM (DDG 63) is the first U.S. Navy warship named to honor the life and service of Steelworker Second Class (DV) Robert Dean Stethem, USN (1961-1985).
		Petty Officer Stethem’s mother, Patricia, was a Storekeeper before leaving the Navy to raise a family.
		Petty Officer Stethem’s brother Patrick was a Steelworker Second Class before leaving active duty and his other brother, Kenneth, served in the U.S. Navy for twenty years retiring as a Chief Boatswain’s Mate and Navy SEAL.
	www.stethem.navy.mil /stethem.asp (246 words)

	Robert Dean Stethem, SW2, United States Navy
		The hijackers killed Stethem in cold blood and dumped his body on an airport runway in Beirut, because he was an American serviceman, according to 10News.
		Robert Stethem's family was never satisfied that hijacker Mohammed Ali Hamadi received a life sentence in Germany for the 1985 murder of the Navy diver from Maryland on a TWA airplane.
		His release has left the Stethems angry and dealt a potential blow to their hope that he would someday be brought before a U.S. court for Robert Stethem's murder.
	www.arlingtoncemetery.com /rdstethe.htm (3500 words)

	FrontPage magazine.com :: TWA 847, 20 Years Later by Debbie Schlussel
		Stethem was so badly beaten that he could only be identified from fingerprints.
		This is the group that murdered Robert Stethem and hundreds of U.S. Marines and civilians, and this cretin, Hamad, wants to celebrate that.
		Unlike them, Robert Stethem was an American hero, who refused to denounce the United States while being tortured to death by Hezbollah murderers.
	www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=18473 (916 words)

	Stars & Stripes
		Petty Officer 2nd Class Robert Stethem, a steelworker and diver, was killed 20 years ago this month during the hijacking of a commercial airline in Lebanon.
		The Stethem is the first ship for Ensign Bristol Hartlage, who said Friday: “I have duty right now, but I’m so excited to go out in Japan.” First on her list, she said, is to figure out the train system and then use it to visit a friend here.
		The USS Stethem, the latest ship to be home-ported at Yokosuka Naval Base in Japan, was named for Petty Officer 2nd Class Robert Stethem, a steelworker and Navy diver killed 20 years ago on June 15, 1985, this month by hijackers in Lebanon.
	www.stripes.com /article.asp?section=104&article=29834 (836 words)

	AEI - Short Publications (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Ken is a former U.S. special-forces operator and the brother of Robert Dean Stethem, the Navy diver who was brutally tortured and murdered by Hezbollah 20 years ago.
		Robert's murderer was just released by the German government (and fled to Lebanon) in an apparent exchange for a German hostage in Iraq.
		That is why Ken Stethem, on behalf of the rest of his family (including his and Robert's parents), has written this powerful letter.
	www.aei.org /publications/filter.all,pubID.23654/pub_detail.asp (812 words)

	Amy Ridenour's National Center Blog: The Fight Goes On
		The murdered sailor, Robert Stethem, was only 22 when he was killed -- singled out by terrorists because he served in the U.S. military.
		...Robert Stethem was an American hero, who refused to denounce the United States while being tortured to death by Hezbollah murderers.
		Robert Stethem's parents both served in the Navy; his father for 26 years.
	www.nationalcenter.org /2005/12/fight-goes-on.html (509 words)

	A Collection of Thoughts: Remembering TWA Flight 847 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		One of the two, 23 year old Robert D. Stethem, an underwater steelworker, was brutally beaten beyond recognition and tortured over a prolonged period of time.
		Robert Dean Stethem was posthumously awarded the Purple Heart and Bronze Star.
		The motto of the USS Stethem DDG-63 is, "Steadfast and Courageous".
	www.jenmartinez.com /mt/archives/000982.php (1992 words)

	Times Community Newspapers - Local News - 12/27/2005 - Murdered sailor's family calls for justice
		Patricia Stethem, Robert's mother, christened the USS Stethem (DDG 63), a guided missile destroyer, on July 16, 1994, in her son;s name.
		Hamadi spent 19 years in prison for brutalizing and then shooting Robert Dean Stethem, 23, a Navy diver who happened to be on TWA Flight 847 from Athens to Rome in June 1985, when Hezbollah terrorists hijacked the plane and forced it to land at Beirut.
		Robert was one of five Navy men on board.
	www.timescommunity.com /site/tab1.cfm?newsid=15825895&BRD=2553&PAG=461&dept_id=506035&rfi=6 (745 words)

	Robert Dean Stethem, SW2, United States Navy
		The ceremony was aboard the destroyer "Robert D.
		Stethem's parents, who are also U.S. Navy veterans, also attended the ceremony.
		The USS Stethem is now under the command David Melin, replacing commander Craig Faller.
	www.arlingtoncemetery.net /rdstethe.htm (3500 words)

	Twenty years later, Stethems seek justice - Nightly News with Brian Williams - MSNBC.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Robert Stethem in an undated photo provided by his family.
		Stethem, too, was severely beaten, then shot and killed — his body shoved out of the plane to the tarmac below.
		Tuesday, Richard and Patricia Stethem visited their son's gravesite, resolving to keep pushing until his killers are behind bars.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/6448213/did/8219264 (526 words)

	NewsFromRussia.Com Release of 1985 TWA hijacker leaves victim's family bitter
		Robert Stethem's family was never satisfied with hijacker Mohammed Ali Hamadi's life sentence in Germany for the 1985 murder of the Navy diver on a TWA airplane.
		His release has left the Stethems bitter, and dealt a blow to their hope that he would someday be brought before a U.S. court.
		Stethem, 23, was singled out because he was an American serviceman.
	newsfromrussia.com /world/2005/12/21/70209.html (2506 words)

	Presidential Speech & letters: Robert Dean Stethem & TWA 847
		Robert Dean Stethem may become like all television news, soon forgotten.
		One reason Stethem was chosen to die was because he represented us, you and me. He wore our uniform.
		They said that when he was in high school (and he was only 23 when he died), Robert Stethem was the all-American type, a football star, so handsome he even got stares.
	www.terrorism-victims.org /patriotism/letters/cannot-forget.html (668 words)

	Cold Fury - Comments on A sorry history, a stark lesson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Stethem was tortured and murdered by terrorists during the hijacking of TWA Flight 847 on June 14, 1985.
		Stethem displayed unwavering courage in the face of his attackers by refusing to cry out or beg for mercy, sacrificing his life for the other hostages on the aircraft.
		At the conclusion of the speech, Stethem was honored with a 21-gun salute while Intelligence Specialist 1st Class (SW) Joseph Williams and Electronics Technician 1st Class (SW) Travis O’Neil tossed a wreath into the ship’s wake to the playing of Taps.
	coldfury.com /index.php/?comments_popup=6243 (1355 words)

	Townhall.com :: An open letter to Germany's chancellor by Diana West Jan 16, 2006 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Stethem is one of our American heroes, a courageous young Navy diver who became an early casualty of the war on Islamic terror.
		In 1985, at age 23, he was beaten to an unrecognizable pulp by Hammadi and his gang, shot through the head and dumped onto a Beirut runway during the Hezbollah hijacking of TWA Flight 847.
		Such a pattern never marked Robert Stethem, as his brother's letter reminded the president: "You have truly said that 'We are in a fight for our principles, and our responsibility is to live by them,'" Kenneth Stethem wrote.
	townhall.com /print/print_story.php?sid=182461&loc=/opinion/columns/dianawest/2006/01/16/182461.html (716 words)

	Robert Stethem - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Robert Stethem - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		SW-2 (Diver), United States Navy Robert Stethem (November 17, 1961 – June 15, 1985) was a United States Navy diver and steelworker second class.
		Robert Stethem, See also, External links, 1961 births, 1985 deaths, U.S. Navy sailors, Recipients of the Purple Heart medal and People from Maryland.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Robert_Stethem (375 words)

	ScienceDaily: Robert stethem (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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	Mudville Gazette (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In May of 1989 Hammadi was found guilty of air piracy and the murder of Robert Stethem.
		Robert Stethem exhibited unfathomable courage and unwavering patriotism during his last hours.
		Katherine Stethem is married to Patrick Stethem, Robert’s brother.
	www.mudvillegazette.com /archives/004048.html (1723 words)

	FrontPage magazine.com :: Germany Releases U.S. Patriot's Hezbollah Murderer by Debbie Schlussel
		(Stethem's other three murderers--Imad Fayez Mugniyeh, Hasan Izz-Al-Din, Ali Atwa--remain free, and are believed to be in Lebanon, Iran, or Syria.) Hamadi was carrying explosives that were the same kind use in previous terrorist attacks.
		Robert Stethem must be looking down from Heaven and trying to make sense of what is happening here on mortal earth.
		Around the same age, Murphy, Roberts, Moskowitz et al are patriotic only to themselves and their aggressive ambitions--and each continues to be promoted.
	www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=20610 (870 words)

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