Convicted Terrorist Is Freed, Deported

A Palestinian who won early release after being convicted for blowing up an American jumbo jet in 1982 was deported to Tunisia. Police sources said Mohammed Rashid, 46, left Athens for Tunisia via Cairo. Rashid was released after serving only 8 1/2 years of a 15-year sentence because of good behavior. The United States, which called Rashid one of the most wanted terrorists in the Middle East, criticized his release. He received an 18-year sentence in 1992 for planting a bomb on a Pan American Airways jetliner that killed one person and injured 15 others. His sentence was reduced a year later.