(VOA)- U.S. special forces in Iraq have captured Palestinian terrorist leader Abu Abbas - the mastermind of the 1985 hijacking of the Italian cruise ship Achilli Lauro, during which a wheelchair-bound American passenger, Leon Klinghoffer, was shot dead and thrown into the sea. An Italian court sentenced Abbas to five life prison terms in absentia for the hijacking. Abbas is believed to have lived most of the past 17 years in Iraq.
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