The World - News from July 29, 1988

Mohammed Ali Hamadi, a Lebanese accused of air piracy and murder, told his brother he helped hijack a U.S. airliner, a witness testified at Hamadi’s trial in Frankfurt, West Germany. Lebanese Ghazi Yazbeck said that Abbas Hamadi, who is serving a 13-year prison term for kidnaping two West Germans in Beirut in 1987, told friends in the West German town where he lived a few weeks after the hijacking that Mohammed Hamadi “had something to do with the hijacking.” Mohammed Hamadi is accused of taking part in the hijacking of a TWA flight from Athens to Beirut in June, 1985, during which U.S. Navy diver Robert D. Stethem was slain and 39 people were held hostage for 17 days.