Hijacker of Iberian Jetliner Gets 20-Year Prison Term
<i> Associated Press</i>
MIAMI —
A man who brandished a pair of scissors and a fake bomb in hijacking a Cuba-bound plane to Miami last year was sentenced Monday to 20 years in prison.
Sadd’o Mohammed Ibrahim Intissar, 28, testified during his April 25 trial that he fled a Palestinian shantytown because of poverty. He was convicted in U.S. District Court of hijacking an Iberia Airlines jumbo jetliner that was en route from Madrid to Havana on July 26, 1996. He forced the plane to Miami. None of the 286 people aboard was injured.
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