On this day in 1985, noble peace-loving freedom fighters of the PLO hijacked the cruise liner Achille Lauro. They then demonstrated how tough and resolute they were by shooting a wheelchair-bound senior citizen.
For some reason, not one of the hijackers ended up decorating a yardarm.
However, we did end up capturing Abu Abbas in 2003 and he died (of natural causes, damn the luck) in US custody in 2004.
ReplyDeleteI was stationed in Greece back in the mid-late 80's. Once, we were driving through Piraeus and there she was - the Achille Lauro.
ReplyDeleteI mentioned it to the van full of fellow soldiers. None of them knew what I was talking about. =(
That's sad. :(
ReplyDeleteHow could they not? I mean, by the time the story was ended there were F-14s and SEALs and a near shootout with the Carabinieri...
We have failed in our citizenshippery if we have not hunted-down and hung pirates.
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