Italian Cruise Ship Hijacked

The Achille Lauro Hijacking These sons of bitches must be prosecuted.

Italian cruise ship hijacked. As part of its Learn from the past series SAFETY4SEA remembers the hijacking of the cruise ship Achille Lauro in 1985 by four heavily armed Palestinian militants who posed as passengers resulting to the brutal murder of one passenger. They murdered Leon Klinghoffer an elderly wheelchair-bound American Jew and took some 320 crewmembers and 80 passengers hostage. Klinghoffer age 69 was from New York City and was vacationing with his wife Marilyn and their friends when four heavily armed terrorists hijacked the Achille Lauro cruise ship after it left Port Said Egypt.

The well-armed men who belonged to the. Klinghoffer was disabled and in a wheelchair the terrorists shot him in the chest and head and then forced two crew members to dump him and the wheelchair he was confined. 7 1985 by four Palestinian militants associated with a faction of the Palestine Liberation Front PLF.

The story of the hijacking of the Itallian liner Achille Lauro by four militants of the Palestine Liberation Front in 1985 who demanded the release of several Palestinians incarcerated in Israeli prisons. And British passengers if their demands were not met. In their hands lied the fate of several passengers many Americans included and among them Jewish-American businessman Leon Klinghoffer.

TV Trivia Movie Trivia Science Trivia Disney Trivia The Office Trivia. In 1985 the Italian cruise ship MS Achille Lauro was hijacked by armed terrorists representing the Palestine Liberation Front PLF off the coast of Egypt as the ship made its way to Port Said at the mouth of the Suez Canal. A group of armed Palestinians hijacked an Italian cruise ship with more than 400 people aboard--most of them crew members--off the Egyptian coast.

This past week saw authorities issue travel warnings about terrorist threats in Europe. The Achille Lauro An Italian cruise ship sailing the Mediterranean hijacked on October 7 1985 by four heavily armed Palestinian terrorists. The Italian cruise ship was hijacked in 1985 by four terrorists members of the Front for the Liberation of Palestine.

Aboard were 748 passengers and several hundred crew. The Achille Lauro left Genoa Italy on October 3 for a 12-day cruise of the Mediterranean Sea. The hijackers changed the route of.