[ BBC News] Ibrahim Fatayer Abdelatif, 43, one of the hijackers of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro in 1985, has been set free after spending more than two decades in jail in Italy. In the attack, one of the hijackers shot and killed U.S. tourist Leon Klinghoffer - a 69-year-old who was in a wheelchair - before throwing him overboard.
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