The World - News from July 20, 1988
Mohammed Ali Hamadi, a Lebanese charged in the 1985 hijacking of a TWA jetliner to Beirut, denounced Israel and the United States and said he would no longer take part in his trial in Frankfurt, West Germany. Referring to the United States as Israel’s greatest ally, Hamadi said Israel had “killed tens of thousands of my Lebanese countrymen and destroyed hundreds of homes.” Hamadi is charged with murder and air piracy in the June, 1985, hijacking in which 39 Americans were held captive for 17 days. Navy diver Robert D. Stethem was killed by the hijackers during the incident.
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