The World - News from Nov. 2, 1988
One of three Palestinians who hijacked an Egyptian airliner in 1985 admitted that he killed two passengers, an American woman and an Israeli woman. Lebanese-born defendant Omar Mohammed Ali Rezaq, 25, pleaded guilty to seven of nine charges when his trial opened in the Mediterranean island nation of Malta. Rezaq was one of the Palestinians who hijacked the Boeing 737 in November, 1985, to Malta. Fifty-eight people, including the other gunmen, died when Egyptian troops stormed the plane and ended the hijacking. Rezaq pleaded guilty to killing Scarlett Marie Rogenkamp, of Oceanside, Calif., and Nitzan Mendelson, an Israeli.
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