1985 The Cruise Ship Achille Lauro

The Achille Lauro traveled to the Syrian port of Tartus where the terrorists demanded negotiations on October 8.

1985 the cruise ship achille lauro. 34 Years Ago on Monday 7th October 1985 the Italian passenger liner ACHILLE LAURO was hijacked by four men representing the Palestine Liberation Front off the coast of Egypt while on passage from Alexandria to Ashdod Israel. 10 1985 after Egyptian authorities stopped it from sailing to the Israeli port of Ashdod. MS Achille Lauro was a cruise ship based in Naples Italy.

Gunmen hijack Italian cruise liner Palestinian militants have hijacked an Italian cruise liner the Achille Lauro in the Mediterranean and threatened to blow it up. On October 7 1985 four members of one of the PLOs factions the Palestine Liberation Front PLF hijacked the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro and demanded the release of Palestinian prisoners held in Israel. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak persuaded the hijackers to surrender but not before they shot to death a wheelchair-bound Jewish passenger from the United States named Leon.

They were to rendezvous with the ship hours later at Port Said. Built between 1939 and 1947 as MS Willem Ruys a passenger liner for the Rotterdamsche Lloyd she was hijacked by members of the Palestine Liberation Front in 1985. The Palestinian guerrilla leader who masterminded the 1985 hijacking of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro in which a disabled American tourist.

Four Palestinian terrorists stormed into the ships dining room shooting their. A 69 year old Jewish American man in a wheelchair Leon Klinghoffer was murdered by the hijackers and thrown overboard. The hijackers took the more than 400 passengers and crew members hostage and demanded the.

In October 1985 four Palestinian terrorists hijacked the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro in the Mediterranean. October 8 1985 Cruise Ship Murders Leon Klinghoffer 69 Terror Attack Achille Lauro Passenger October 8 1985 Time of Death 130 Leon Klinghoffer 69 from New Jersey born September 24 1916 was on a cruise aboard Star Lauros Achille Lauro on October 7 1985 with his wife Marilyn when the vessel was seized by terrorists at sea near Egypt. Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro leaves Port Said harbor on Oct.

On October 7 1985 the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro was commandeered by four individuals identifying themselves as members of the Palestine Liberation Front PLF a breakaway faction of the Palestinian Liberation Organization PLO The hijacking occurred as the Achille Lauro drew close to Port Said Egypt on a short excur-. On 7 th October at Alexandria 651 of the passengers from the Achille Lauro left for a bus tour of the pyramids leaving 97 onboard. Aboard were 748 passengers and several hundred crew.