The World - News from Aug. 25, 1987
A videotape released by a Muslim extremist group featured one of its two West German hostages praising the Bonn government for its decision to “not extradite Mohammed Ali Hamadi.” In the videotape, delivered to a Western news agency in mostly Muslim West Beirut, Alfred Schmidt, 46, read a three-page statement. A group called Strugglers for Freedom has claimed responsibility for the abduction of Schmidt and Rudolf Cordes, 53, last January. They are believed to have been seized by relatives of Hamadi, who is being held in West Germany in connection with the hijacking of a TWA jet in June, 1985.
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