The World - News from March 30, 1987
West Germany hopes to win the freedom of two German hostages in Lebanon by prosecuting, sentencing and then expelling two Lebanese brothers jailed in Frankfurt, the Bild newspaper reported. This would involve the denial of a U.S. extradition request for Mohammed Ali Hamadi, wanted in the 1985 hijacking of a TWA airliner. Atty. Gen. Kurt Rebmann told a secret meeting of Chancellor Helmut Kohl’s hostage crisis staff last week that charges already have been drawn up against Hamadi’s brother, Ali Abbas Hamadi, Bild said. There was no immediate official comment on the report.
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