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THE ACHILLE LAURO HIJACKING & FALLOUT | October 10, 1985
Sigonella, Sicily
High above the Mediterranean Sea, the men aboard an Egyptian passenger jet believed they were escaping.
They were headed toward Tunisia. They expected freedom.
Instead, four U.S. Navy F-14 Tomcats appeared around the aircraft.
"Follow us. Change course. Land in Sicily."
Aboard the jet were four Palestinian gunmen who had hijacked the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro three days earlier. During the hostage crisis, they murdered 69-year-old American passenger Leon Klinghoffer, a retired businessman who used a wheelchair…
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