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May 23, 2003       Share:    

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2740-2003May17.html

The World Should Know What He Did to My Family

(Washington Post) Smadar Haran Kaiser - Abu Abbas, the former head of a Palestinian terrorist group who was captured in Iraq on April 15, is infamous for masterminding the 1985 hijacking of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro. But there are probably few who remember why Abbas's terrorists held the ship and its 400-plus passengers hostage for two days. It was to gain the release of a Lebanese terrorist named Samir Kuntar, who is locked up in an Israeli prison for life. I know Kuntar's name well because, almost a quarter of a century ago, Kuntar murdered my family.

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