The World - News from Nov. 22, 1988
The defense lawyer for Mohammed Ali Hamadi told a court in Frankfurt, West Germany, that his client is not fit to be tried on hijacking and murder charges because he suffered brain damage from the blast of a bazooka shell in 1981, during Lebanon’s civil warfare. Lawyer Burkhard Steck requested a psychiatric examination for the Lebanese Shia Muslim and said it would show that Hamadi could not be held accountable for his acts. The court made no immediate ruling on the motion. Hamadi has admitted helping hijack a TWA airliner to Beirut on June 14, 1985, but has blamed the murder of a passenger, U.S. Navy diver Robert D. Stethem, on his accomplice.
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