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March 19, 2013       Share:    

Source: http://bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2013/03/16/airline-bomber-set-released-from-prison/2xO3Hx6IWZWRmD5BehdjhK/story.html

Palestinian Airline Bomber to Be Released from U.S. Prison

(AP-Boston Globe) Eric Tucker - Mohammed Rashed slipped a bomb beneath the jetliner seat cushion, set the timer, and disembarked with his wife and child when the plane landed in Tokyo. The device exploded as Pan Am Flight 830 continued on to Honolulu, killing a Japanese teenager in a 1982 attack. Now, credited for his cooperation against associates, Rashed will be released from a federal prison in Colorado within days, after more than two decades in custody. His 2002 guilty plea stipulated that Rashed, a Jordanian-born Palestinian from Bethlehem, would be deported to a country of his choice upon his release.

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