Arafat chiede un inchiseta sulla strana morte di Abu Abbas

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Palestinian groups blame US for death of hijack mastermind Abu Abbas
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BAGHDAD (AFP) - Palestinian groups pointed the finger at US forces after Abu Abbas, mastermind of the 1985 hijacking of the Achille Lauro cruise ship when a wheelchair-bound American was killed, died in their custody in Iraq (news - web sites).


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The Palestine Liberation Organisation called for an inquiry while Abbas's own small radical Palestinian Liberation Front accused the US military of killing him by depriving him of medication.


Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat (news - web sites) for his part called Abbas, who died on Monday in a US military jail in Iraq and whose real name was Mohammed Abbas, a "combattant martyr."


"We demand an international inquiry to determine the exact causes of death," Mohamed Sobhi, the PLO representative in Iraq, told AFP.


"We will not be satisfied with American explanations that Abu Abbas died of natural causes," he said.


A US military official in Baghdad said there was nothing unusual about Abbas's death. "We are going to have an autopsy performed ... They brought in a naval officer to carry out the autopsy. I believe he had a medical condition."


But at the home of Reem Nimr, Abbas's widow, in Beirut, a PLF spokesman said: "We hold the US administration responsible for the assassination of Abu Abbas, the Arab Palestinian national leader."


Nazem Yussef, PLF politburo member and representative in Lebanon, told AFP that "they had stopped giving him medicines for 10 days at the detention center in Iraq, and he had been suffering from heart problems and blood pressure."


Abbas's group gained particular notoriety when, during the hijacking of the Italian liner in the Mediterranean, wheelchair-bound Jewish American passenger Leon Klinghoffer, 69, was dumped into the sea.


US forces took Abbas into custody in Iraq on April 14 after ousting Iraqi president Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) and his arrest was hailed by the Pentagon (news - web sites) and White House as proof of Saddam's links with "international terrorism".


"Initial reports indicate he died of natural causes", Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said.


"Medical efforts to revive him were unsuccessful and (an) autopsy will be performed," he added.


"Most people suspect it was a heart attack," a defence official said, speaking on condition of anonymity. "It's likely the cause of death would have been cardiac failure given his medical history."


A US military official in Baghdad told reporters that Abbas was being "held somewhere in Baghdad" but then changed his statement to "somewhere in Iraq."


Many of the top members of Saddam Hussein's ousted regime are being detained at Baghdad international airport.


The US official said he was not aware of any plans for repatriating the body.


Asked about the place of burial, Yussef said: "Details will be known after the meeting we have arranged for this morning with the International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) in Lebanon.





"Abu Abbas will be buried in his homeland Palestine, but if as usual the Israelis make problems, the second choice is the Palestinian refugee camp of Yarmuk in Syria because he was born there," he said.

Yussef said Abbas's widow was "very tired and cannot speak."

Abbas was sentenced in absentia in Italy to five life terms for his role in the hijacking of the Achille Lauro.

After his capture by the Americans, the Palestinian leadership argued he should have been freed under a 1995 immunity accord between the Palestinians and the Israeli government, but US officials said he was not covered by the agreement.

Klinghoffer's daughters Ilsa and Lisa said in a statement in New York that they had been denied justice by Abbas's death, adding, "The one consolation for us is that Abu Abbas died in captivity, not as a free man."

The Klinghoffer family had spent 18 years seeking his capture and eventual extradition to the United States to stand trial.

"Abu Abbas was a vicious terrorist who was responsible for countless deaths of innocent people -- men, women and children -- throughout the Middle East," the family statement said.

Abbas had long lived in exile in Baghdad.

But under the 1995 peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians he was allowed to return to the Palestinian territories after renouncing calls for the destruction of Israel.

He resettled in the Gaza Strip (news - web sites) in the late 1990s, but with the start of the Palestinian uprising in late 2000, Abbas returned to Baghdad.

Saddam sponsored Abbas along with other Palestinian militants, including Abu Nidal, who died in Baghdad in 2002, as he sought to intervene in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

Apart from the spectacular hijacking of the cruise ship, the PLF, a splinter group of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command (PFLP-GC), carried out a number of high-profile and unorthodox raids against Israel.

They including an attack from the sea on a hotel in Tel Aviv in 1990, which prompted the United States to suspend ties with the PLO, the use of hang-gliders and even a balloon.

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Palestinian groups blame US for death of hijack mastermind Abu Abbas
30 minutes ago Add Mideast - AFP to My Yahoo!



BAGHDAD (AFP) - Palestinian groups pointed the finger at US forces after Abu Abbas, mastermind of the 1985 hijacking of the Achille Lauro cruise ship when a wheelchair-bound American was killed, died in their custody in Iraq (news - web sites).


AFP/File Photo


Reuters
Slideshow: Mideast Conflict




The Palestine Liberation Organisation called for an inquiry while Abbas's own small radical Palestinian Liberation Front accused the US military of killing him by depriving him of medication.


Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat (news - web sites) for his part called Abbas, who died on Monday in a US military jail in Iraq and whose real name was Mohammed Abbas, a "combattant martyr."


"We demand an international inquiry to determine the exact causes of death," Mohamed Sobhi, the PLO representative in Iraq, told AFP.


"We will not be satisfied with American explanations that Abu Abbas died of natural causes," he said.


A US military official in Baghdad said there was nothing unusual about Abbas's death. "We are going to have an autopsy performed ... They brought in a naval officer to carry out the autopsy. I believe he had a medical condition."


But at the home of Reem Nimr, Abbas's widow, in Beirut, a PLF spokesman said: "We hold the US administration responsible for the assassination of Abu Abbas, the Arab Palestinian national leader."


Nazem Yussef, PLF politburo member and representative in Lebanon, told AFP that "they had stopped giving him medicines for 10 days at the detention center in Iraq, and he had been suffering from heart problems and blood pressure."


Abbas's group gained particular notoriety when, during the hijacking of the Italian liner in the Mediterranean, wheelchair-bound Jewish American passenger Leon Klinghoffer, 69, was dumped into the sea.


US forces took Abbas into custody in Iraq on April 14 after ousting Iraqi president Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) and his arrest was hailed by the Pentagon (news - web sites) and White House as proof of Saddam's links with "international terrorism".


"Initial reports indicate he died of natural causes", Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said.


"Medical efforts to revive him were unsuccessful and (an) autopsy will be performed," he added.


"Most people suspect it was a heart attack," a defence official said, speaking on condition of anonymity. "It's likely the cause of death would have been cardiac failure given his medical history."


A US military official in Baghdad told reporters that Abbas was being "held somewhere in Baghdad" but then changed his statement to "somewhere in Iraq."


Many of the top members of Saddam Hussein's ousted regime are being detained at Baghdad international airport.


The US official said he was not aware of any plans for repatriating the body.


Asked about the place of burial, Yussef said: "Details will be known after the meeting we have arranged for this morning with the International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) in Lebanon.





"Abu Abbas will be buried in his homeland Palestine, but if as usual the Israelis make problems, the second choice is the Palestinian refugee camp of Yarmuk in Syria because he was born there," he said.

Yussef said Abbas's widow was "very tired and cannot speak."

Abbas was sentenced in absentia in Italy to five life terms for his role in the hijacking of the Achille Lauro.

After his capture by the Americans, the Palestinian leadership argued he should have been freed under a 1995 immunity accord between the Palestinians and the Israeli government, but US officials said he was not covered by the agreement.

Klinghoffer's daughters Ilsa and Lisa said in a statement in New York that they had been denied justice by Abbas's death, adding, "The one consolation for us is that Abu Abbas died in captivity, not as a free man."

The Klinghoffer family had spent 18 years seeking his capture and eventual extradition to the United States to stand trial.

"Abu Abbas was a vicious terrorist who was responsible for countless deaths of innocent people -- men, women and children -- throughout the Middle East," the family statement said.

Abbas had long lived in exile in Baghdad.

But under the 1995 peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians he was allowed to return to the Palestinian territories after renouncing calls for the destruction of Israel.

He resettled in the Gaza Strip (news - web sites) in the late 1990s, but with the start of the Palestinian uprising in late 2000, Abbas returned to Baghdad.

Saddam sponsored Abbas along with other Palestinian militants, including Abu Nidal, who died in Baghdad in 2002, as he sought to intervene in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

Apart from the spectacular hijacking of the cruise ship, the PLF, a splinter group of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command (PFLP-GC), carried out a number of high-profile and unorthodox raids against Israel.

They including an attack from the sea on a hotel in Tel Aviv in 1990, which prompted the United States to suspend ties with the PLO, the use of hang-gliders and even a balloon.

Un omicidio preannunciato: la firma è indubitabile....ieri sui tg nazionali i giornalisti hanno parlato di "morte naturale"....
Forse volevano dire che per loro era naturale che morisse....evviva l'italia, neo-colonia israeliana!!