U.S. Forces May Hand Over Abul Abbas Body

[Herschel]

.S. forces in Iraq have agreed to hand over the body of Palestinian guerrilla leader Abul Abbas for burial in the West Bank, a Palestinian Cabinet minister said Saturday.


Abbas, whose given name was Mohammed Abbas, died Monday in U.S. custody in Iraq, where he was captured last April. He was known for leading the 1985 hijacking of the Achille Lauro passenger ship in which a wheelchair-bound Jewish American tourist, Leon Klinghoffer, was killed and thrown overboard.


Palestinian Communications Minister Azzam Ahmed said Palestinian officials had spoken to the Americans "about transporting his body to Ramallah to be buried there, and they said they don't mind."

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It would seem placing his body in a wheelchair and throwing it into the sea would be more appropriate.

[wuushew]

1. That is not exactly and eye for an eye

Abbas was not on the ship and therefore not directly responsible for Klinghoffer's death.

It would be like strapping Osama to an airliner and crashing him into a building even though he himself was not a highjacker.

[Herschel]

2. Interesting

"It would be like strapping Osama to an airliner and crashing him into a building even though he himself was not a highjacker."

I will support this as well.