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  • Greek police release man wrongfully detained over 1985 TWA hijacking.

    09/29/2019 11:19:38 AM PDT · by L.A.Justice · 4 replies
    New York Post ^ | 9/25/19 | Jorge Fitz-Gibbon
    A Lebanese journalist detained on suspicion he participated in the 1985 hijacking of TWA Flight 847 is back home in Beirut after authorities determined they had the wrong man.
  • Heroic Navy diver drowned after refusing to leave his fellow sailor..(shortened)

    08/04/2014 5:16:19 PM PDT · by Protect the Bill of Rights · 21 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | 4 August 2014 | Alex Greig
    A Navy diver died at the bottom of a Maryland pond last year after refusing to leave his trapped fellow sailor to drown alone. Petty Officer 2nd Class Ryan Harris, 23, and Petty Officer 1st Class James Reyher, 28, were sent to dive in the Aberdeen Proving Ground on February 26 2013, but their lifeless bodies were pulled to the surface just 31 minutes after they started the dive. No one knew what had befallen the pair until an investigation, completed last year but only recently released, pieced together the final 31 minutes of the young men's lives.
  • Uneasy dreams and monstrous vermin [funny]

    01/23/2006 8:53:52 PM PST · by 68skylark · 3 replies · 569+ views
    The Belmont Club | January 21, 2005 | Wretchard
    Here are two items on different topics related by their common absurdity.Reuters is reporting that some of the ransom money paid for the German government for the release of Susan Osthoff (the archaeologist who was kidnapped by Iraqi militants and later released in exchange for Mohammad Ali Hammadi, the man who killed Navy diver Robert Stethem in a hijacked TWA flight) was found on her effects. (Hat tip: Davids Medienkritik) BERLIN (Reuters) - Part of the ransom money alleged to have been paid by the German government to win the freedom of Iraq hostage Susanne Osthoff last month was found...
  • US Vows To Track Down Hijacker Freed Early

    12/22/2005 6:41:54 PM PST · by blam · 26 replies · 1,156+ views
    The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 12-23-2005 | Anton La Guardia
    US vows to track down hijacker freed early By Anton La Guardia, Diplomatic Editor (Filed: 23/12/2005) The United States has vowed to track down and bring to trial a Lebanese hijacker who has been secretly released after serving 19 years in a German prison for seizing an airliner in 1985 and killing a US navy diver. The Bush administration said it had asked Germany not to release Mohammed Ali Hamadi, who was jailed for life for his role in the hijacking of TWA's Flight 847 from Athens to Rome and the shooting of one of the passengers, Robert Stethem. Despite...
  • Navy Diver helped save partner, but investigation finds officers made errors

    02/28/2003 11:25:36 AM PST · by pabianice · 11 replies · 436+ views
    Navy Times ^ | 2/28/03 | Maxwell
    <p>It’s the kind of pride that comes wrapped in hard heartache, watching a boy go off to become a man. Matthew Draughon left his parents’ house that summer of 1998, following a Navy path already worn by his father and again by his older brother. This younger son wanted to catch the ocean, too. He wanted the best underwater training the world offers. He wanted to be a Navy diver.</p>