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The body was shipped out of Baghdad. That's where Abu Abbas, aka Abul Abbas, né Muhammad Abbas, had been apprehended by American forces last April. By then this man of many names had accumulated a rap sheet going back 30 years, beginning with the time he personally wiped out a family in Nahariya, Israel. (Only the mother lived to tell the tale.) Now he is said to have died of a heart attack while in custody, the first sign that he ever had a heart. Naturally he will be given a hero's burial by the Palestine Authority. For Abu Abbas...

Saddam Hussein supplied financial support, training and shelter for an array of deadly terrorist organizations right up until the onset of the Iraq war a year ago, including such notorious groups as Hamas, Ansar al-Islam, the Palestinian Liberation Front, the Abu Nidal Organization and the Arab Liberation Front, according to a comprehensive report released by the Hudson Institute. Titled "Saddam's Philanthropy of Terror," the report details the role played by terrorists supported by Saddam's regime in an array of infamous acts that killed hundreds American citizens both inside and outside the U.S. before and after the Sept. 11 attacks -...

The Palestinian Authority said it had received US agreement to hand over the body of Mohammed Abbas, the mastermind of the 1985 Achille Lauro cruise ship hijacking, for burial in Palestinian territory. However Palestinian Minister of Telecommunications and Technology Azzam al-Ahmad said Israel had yet to approve such a burial for Abbas, 56, who died in US custody in Iraq on Tuesday. Abbas was captured by American forces in Iraq nearly a year ago. "The American side in Baghdad agreed to give us the body of Mohammed Abbas to be buried in the Palestinian territories," Mr al-Ahmad said. "The Red...

One less terrorist Oliver North (archive) March 12, 2004 WASHINGTON, D.C. -- It started on my 42nd birthday -- Monday, Oct. 7, 1985. No sooner had I arrived at my office in the White House that morning, than the senior watch officer in the Situation Room called. No hard intelligence was available yet, but something was amiss in the Mediterranean. What we did know was that it was an Italian cruise ship, the Achille Lauro, and it was about 30 miles from Port Said, Egypt where four Palestinian terrorists had embarked carrying grenades, guns and ammunition. Years before Sept. 11,...

US 'assassinated' Abu Abbas: Palestinian group The Palestinian Liberation Front (PLF) has accused the United of the "assassination" of its leader Abu Abbas, who the Pentagon said had died of natural causes in US custody. "We hold the US administration responsible for the assassination of Abu Abbas, the Arab Palestinian national leader," Nazem Yussef, PLF representative in Lebanon, told AFP. "They had stopped giving him medicines for 10 days at the detention centre in Iraq, and he had been suffering from heart problems and blood pressure," Mr Yussef said. A Pentagon spokesman said Tuesday that Abu Abbas, the Palestinian who...

Perhaps, somewhere in hell, Palestinian terrorist Abu Abbas has started to shovel coal into a giant fire for the next...forever. While the world will hardly miss the former secretary general of the Palestine Liberation Front, news of his death may have made Saddam Hussein weep. Born in 1948, Abbas died in American custody in Iraq Tuesday, apparently of natural causes. According to a news release from the Coalition Joint Task Force in the Iraqi capitol, "U.S. forces have held Abbas since he was captured in Baghdad on April 14, 2003." His path into American hands illustrates why Operation Iraqi Freedom...

WAR ON TERROR Achille Lauro mastermind dies in custodyPalestinian Abu Abbas sheltered by Saddam until capture by U.S. Posted: March 9, 20044:15 p.m. Eastern © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com The Palestinian mastermind of the 1985 Achille Lauro cruise ship hijacking in Italy, Mohammad Abbas, has died in U.S. custody in Iraq of natural causes. An official close to Palestinian President Yasser Arafat told Reuters the death of Abbas, known as Abu Abbas, was "related to his deteriorating health situation." Abu Abbas The Palestine Liberation Front leader, believed to be in his early 60s, had been in U.S. custody since April when U.S. troops near...

(IsraelNN.com) Muhmad Abbas, known as “Abu Abbas”, who masterminded the Achilles Laura terror attack in 1985, died a natural death in an Iraqi jail yesterday, while in American custody. The arch terrorist stood at the helm of the Palestine Liberation Front.

Filed at 4:25 p.m. ET RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) -- Mohammed Abul Abbas, head of a Palestinian splinter group and mastermind of the 1985 hijacking of the Achille Lauro passenger ship in which an American tourist was killed, has died in U.S. custody in Iraq, Palestinian and U.S. officials said Tuesday. The ship was commandeered by Abbas' small Palestine Liberation Front. Palestinian militants threw an elderly wheelchair-bound Jewish American tourist, Leon Klinghoffer, overboard. Abbas was captured in Iraq in April by U.S. forces. Late Tuesday, officials in Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's office, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that Abbas...

Abu Abbas, mastermind of 1985 Achille Lauro hijacking, dies of natural causes in U.S. custody in Iraq, says source

For years, Abu Abbas was one of the world's most wanted terrorists, the mastermind of the hijacking of an Italian cruise ship in which an American in a wheelchair was shoved overboard. Now, no one seems to want Mr. Abbas, leader of a faction of the Palestine Liberation Front, who was captured by American Special Forces here in April and is in American custody. The Americans would like the Italian government, which convicted him in absentia and sentenced him to life in prison in 1986, to take him and put him in jail. But the Italians have made no move...

TODAY: Security Council to vote on resolution seeking assurances of leader’s safetyUNITED NATIONS - Facing a U.S. veto threat, the U.N. Security Council set a vote for Tuesday on a resolution, backed by Arab nations, demanding that Israel not harm or deport Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. THE COUNCIL'S decision Monday night to go to a vote on a resolution drafted by the Palestinian envoy to the United Nations, Nasser al-Kidwa, capped a day of harsh debate in which more than 40 governments took the floor to condemn a decision by the Israeli security Cabinet to get rid of Arafat through...

New York Sen. Hillary Clinton is urging Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and Attorney General John Ashcroft to prosecute Palestinian terrorist Abu Abbas, the notorious mastermind of the 1985 Achille Lauro hijacking who was given a defacto exemption from prosecution by her husband because of the Oslo Peace accords. "I am writing to urge that you coordinate with Attorney General John Ashcroft to bring Abbas to the United States for prosecution as soon as possible in New York," Clinton told Rumsfeld, in a letter posted this week to her Web site. "Since Abu Abbas is responsible for the murder of...

Rangers return to Savannah 1st Battalion helped rescue Jessica Lynch and captured terrorists. By Noelle Phillips phillips@savannahnow.com 912-652-0366 It's never too late or too early to welcome soldiers home from a war. So, hundreds of people, mostly women and children, screamed, whistled and waved flags at Hunter Army Airfield's air terminal Monday morning. It was 1 a.m., and it sounded like a high school pep rally. A commercial airplane carrying nearly 250 troops from 1st Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment landed at 12:55 a.m. First, though, the Rangers had to turn in forms to U.S. Customs agents. Then, they lined up...

<p>AST WEEK in Baghdad, US special operation forces apprehended Abu Abbas, a convicted Palestinian terrorist who masterminded the 1985 hijacking of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro. During the hijacking, a wheelchair-bound US citizen, Leon Klinghoffer, was murdered. The status of Abbas's captivity is now in limbo. Because Abbas is no longer a significant terrorist player and because his presence in a US court could complicate the important role of the United States in the Palestinian crisis, we should release Abu Abbas to the Italians, where he faces a lifetime in jail.</p>

HUMAN RIGHTS organisations expressed increasing concern yesterday over the treatment of the captured Iraqis on the American “deck-of-cards” list of most-wanted regime members. Their intervention came after the detention of three more senior officials on Wednesday, including the former chief of military intelligence and the former head of the country’s military air defences. Their arrests brought the total to 11, but the Bush Administration is refusing to disclose where or in what conditions they are being held. The whereabouts of Abu Abbas, the Palestinian behind the 1985 hijacking of the cruise liner Achille Lauro, who was arrested by US special...

Abulabas isn't the name of a French soup; he's a bloody-minded terrorist chieftain with a record that goes back at least 30 years. He started it by personally wiping out a whole family in Nahariya, Israel. (Only the mother survived to bear witness.) The outfit Abu Abbas heads -- the Palestine Liberation Front -- has been officially designated a terrorist organization by the State Department, and a life sentence is waiting for him in Italy, where the authorities requested his extradition as soon as he was caught in Baghdad last week. His rap sheet is as long as your two...

Bill Clinton is known for many things. He's known for using his powerful office to take advantage of women. He's known for doing everything in his power to undermine national security. He's known for putting his own legacy ahead of America's best interests. He's known for abusing the civil rights of Americans to further his own narrow political ambitions. He's known for ignoring and even covering up the growing threat of Islamo-terrorism during his administration. He's known demanding that America's one real ally in the Middle East bend over backward to make concessions to her enemies, while demanding nothing in...

The capture in Baghdad of Palestinian arch-terrorist Abu Abbas reportedly came as a total surprise to him. He apparently believed he was still safe in the Iraqi capital, even after the disappearance of his patron, Saddam Hussein. Abu Abbas first made headlines in 1985 when he hijacked the Italian Achile Lauro cruise ship, from whose deck he had shot and thrown overboard an elderly, wheelchair-bound American doctor, Leon Klinghoffer. The victim's only crime was being Jewish. This always made it difficult for PLO apologists to explain how the cold-blooded murder of a helpless old man could possibly mesh with a...

<p>September 24, 2002 -- JERUSALEM - Three members of a Palestinian terror cell who trained in Iraq's military camps have been arrested as they tried to make their way back into Israel, officials said yesterday.</p> <p>Israeli media reported that officials were flying to Washington to personally brief the CIA on the arrests, which took place as the United States readied its forces for battle with Baghdad.</p>