The World - News from July 1, 1987
A terrorist squad may be headed to West Germany to launch attacks aimed at intimidating authorities into freeing hijacking suspect Mohammed Ali Hamadi, Stern magazine reported. The Hamburg magazine reported that a six-man team of Shia Muslim extremists led by Harb Nasser, a reputed car-bomb expert, recently left Lebanon. Hamadi, a Lebanese, was arrested Jan. 13 at Frankfurt airport. The United States had sought his extradition to face charges of air piracy and murder in connection with the 1985 hijacking of a TWA jetliner to Beirut, but Bonn rejected the request last month and said Hamadi will be tried in West Germany.
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