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Suspect in 1985 hijacking of TWA Flight 847 arrested,

Greek police say
By Robert Gearty | Fox News

A man wanted in the 1985 hijacking of a Trans World Airlines (TWA) plane in which a U.S. Navy
diver was killed during the harrowing 17-day ordeal was arrested by Greek police.

Police said Saturday the suspect, a 65-year-old Lebanese man, was arrested on the island of
Mykonos two days ago. His name came up as the subject of a German arrest warrant when he
disembarked from a cruise ship, police said, according to Reuters.

Police did not release the suspect's name, but several Greek media outlets named him as
Mohammed Ali Hammadi.

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TWA Flight 847 from Athens to Rome was hijacked shortly after takeoff on June 14, 1985. The
hijackers tortured and killed 23-year-old Robert Stethem when they found out he served in the
U.S. Navy. His body was tossed from the plane onto the tarmac in Beirut.
TWA pilot John Testrake answered journalists' questions with a gun pointed near his head during a tense 17-day standoff that
began whe Lebanese hijackers diverted a Trans World Airlines Boeing jet carrying 153 passengers and crew.  (NABIL
ISMAIL/AFP/Getty Images)

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The hijackers released the other 146 passengers and crew members in stages, the last after a
17-day ordeal that included three stops in Beirut and two in Algiers

Hammadi was arrested in Frankfurt in 1987 and convicted in Germany for the plane hijacking
and Stethem's slaying. Hammadi, an alleged Hezbollah member, received life in prison as a
sentence but was paroled in 2005 and returned to Lebanon. He is also a suspect in a 1987
abduction, according to the Greek police.

Germany resisted pressure to extradite him to the United States after Hezbollah abducted two
German citizens in Beirut and threatened to kill them.

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Hammadi, along with fellow hijacker Hasan Izz-Al-Din and Ali Atwa, remains on the FBI's list of
most-wanted terrorists under the name Mohammed Ali Hamadei. The FBI offered a reward of up
to $5 million for information leading to his capture.

The suspect was in custody Saturday on the Greek island of Syros but was set to be transferred
to the Korydallos high-security prison in Athens for extradition proceedings, a police
spokeswoman told The Associated Press.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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