Hijacker Sought Release of Sept. 11 Suspect
From Times Wire Reports
A Lebanese gunman demanding the release of a Sept. 11 suspect in U.S. custody hijacked a bus in Bremen, Germany, taking 16 hostages and leading police on a highway chase. No one was injured in the ordeal, which ended when police stormed the bus and captured the 17-year-old hijacker, who had a pistol that fires blanks and claimed to have explosives, police said.
The hijacker demanded the release of four prisoners, including Ramzi Binalshibh, one of the Hamburg-based Sept. 11 suspects, a prosecutor said.
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