The World - News from July 14, 1988
Lebanese-born Mohammed Ali Hamadi told the West German court trying him on air piracy and murder charges that he had twice smuggled explosives into the country but denied he belonged to the radical Muslim guerrilla group Hezbollah (Party of God). In his first statement to the Frankfurt court, Hamadi also accused German investigators of psychological torture. West Germany, which rejected down an extradition request by the United States, is trying Hamadi for the 1985 hijacking of a TWA jet in which Navy diver Robert D. Stethem was killed.
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