While
declining to comment on whether the United States would consider
kidnapping Hammadi, McCormack cited an example where U.S. Special
Forces captured a militant leader in Iraq. ... Germany, which does not have the death penalty, rejected an early U.S. request for his extradition on the grounds that he could have faced capital punishment in America. ... At his trial, Hammadi confessed to helping stage the 17-day hijacking to help win the release of 700 Lebanese detainees held by Israel, but he denied any role in killing Stethem. But according to witnesses, Hammadi and an accomplice took the 23-year-old to the cockpit and beat him. Then they shot him and threw his body out of the Boeing 727 plane. |
(Hat-tip LGF)
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