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  • Lebanese hijacker sent home after serving 17 years in Swiss prison

    10/17/2004 1:19:12 PM PDT · by knighthawk · 12 replies · 408+ views
    myTELUS ^ | October 17 2004
    BERN, Switzerland (AP) - A Lebanese hijacker who served 17 years in a Swiss prison for killing a passenger and seriously wounding a flight attendant in 1987 has been released and deported to Lebanon, officials said Sunday. Hussein Hariri agreed to immediate deportation and was sent to Beirut on a chartered plane Tuesday with two other Lebanese who had been living in Switzerland illegally, said Dominique Boillat, spokesman for the Federal Refugee Office, confirming a report in the weekly Le Matin Dimanche. Hariri was sentenced to life in prison after he commandeered an Air Afrique DC-10 flying from Brazzaville, Republic...