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While celebrating his 36th wedding anniversary with his wife, on the Italian luxury cruise ship Achille Lauro, the vessel was hijacked by members of the Palestine Liberation Front (PLF).
Because he was Jewish and American, Leon Klinghoffer—who was 69 years old and used a wheelchair after suffering a debilitating stroke—was singled out, shot in the head, and thrown overboard along with his wheelchair.
Remember his name.
Never forget the evils perpetrated by the Palestinians.
Read more about Leon Klinghoffer and the hijacking of the Achille Lauro in the post below.
ALT The shooting of Leon Klinghoffer aboard the Achille Lauro cruise ship which was hijacked by Palestinian terrorists.
Four armed hijackers executed a 69-year-old disabled American in a wheelchair and threw him overboard into the Mediterranean—only for US Navy fighter jets to ambush their getaway airliner in pitch-black airspace, forcing it down onto a NATO runway for an armed standoff between American commandos and Italian carabinieri.
The reason might surprise you.
On October 7, 1985, the Italian luxury cruise liner MS Achille Lauro was cruising off the coast of Alexandria, Egypt, carrying hundreds of international holidaymakers.
While the majority of passengers had disembarked for a shore excursion to Cairo, four heavily armed militants from the Palestine Liberation Front (PLF), led by 23-year-old Youssef Majed al-Molqi, seized the vessel.
Their original plan had been to stay undercover until the ship docked in Ashdod, Israel, to launch a suicide raid on military installations. But when a cabin steward caught them cleaning assault rifles in their state room, they panicked, commandeered the bridge, and held over 400 remaining passengers and crew hostage.
They redirected the cruise liner toward Tartus, Syria, demanding the immediate release of 50 Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails.
When the Syrian government refused to allow the ship to enter port, the hijackers decided to execute a hostage to prove their resolve:
They singled out Leon Klinghoffer, a 69-year-old Jewish-American retired appliance manufacturer from New York who had suffered two severe strokes and was confined to a wheelchair.
Forced onto the open deck, Klinghoffer was shot once in the forehead and once in the chest.
The hijackers then forced two ship crew members at gunpoint to dump Klinghoffer's body and his wheelchair into the open sea.
Fearing international retaliation, PLF leader Muhammad Zaidan (known as Abu Abbas) established radio contact with the ship, ordering the hijackers to steer back toward Port Said, Egypt.
In Cairo, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak arranged a controversial diplomatic compromise:
In exchange for releasing the cruise ship and the remaining hostages unharmed, the hijackers were granted safe passage out of Egypt aboard a commercial EgyptAir Boeing 737 bound for Tunis, alongside Abu Abbas.
President Mubarak publicly claimed the hijackers had already left the country, but US intelligence knew the plane had not yet taken off from Al Maza military airbase.
When President Ronald Reagan learned of Klinghoffer's murder, he issued an immediate directive: intercept the airliner.
On the night of October 10, four F-14 Tomcat fighter jets from the USS Saratoga (Carrier Air Wing 17), supported by an E-2C Hawkeye radar plane, roared off the catapults into the dark Mediterranean sky:
Without using radio transmissions or radar illumination, the F-14s crept up on the EgyptAir flight in complete blackout mode at 34,000 feet south of Crete.
Switching on running lights and drawing within inches of the airliner’s wingtips, the American fighter pilots rocked their wings and radioed the Egyptian pilot directly on emergency frequencies: "Divert your heading to Sigonella, or face interception."
Flanked on both wings by armed Tomcats, the airliner had no choice but to follow the escorts down to Naval Air Station Sigonella in Sicily.
The crisis, however, didn't end on the tarmac. It triggered a near-shooting standoff between two NATO allies:
As soon as the airliner touched down at midnight, US Navy SEAL Team Six operators surrounded the plane in tactical gear.
Within minutes, fifty Italian Carabinieri and military police surrounded the Navy SEALs with submachine guns, drawing down on the Americans.
Italian Prime Minister Bettino Craxi insisted that because the aircraft had landed on sovereign Italian soil and the hijacking occurred on an Italian-flagged ship, Italy retained absolute legal jurisdiction.
(Read more below...)
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🚨Este es el momento en el que la presidenta no electa de la UE, Von der Leyen, advierte ABIERTAMENTE que si Italia vota de forma equivocada, la sancionarán... como Hungría y Polonia👇
¿Es o no es la UE una Tiranía capitaneada por la Von der Leyen?
⚠️EL GOLPE DE ESTADO EN POLONIA ES CAPITANEADO POR LA POR ESTA TIPARRACA ⚠️🔥
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Scottish Member of Parliament Irshad Ahmed complains about pubs having ALCOHOL and not being suitable for ‘Religious Minorities.’
“Pubs are not spaces designed for families, young teenagers or religious minorities like mine. We need these shared spaces too!”
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There were five slave trades. You were taught about only one. 🏴🇬🇧
One. The Atlantic. Twelve million Africans shipped to the Americas. Britain banned it in 1807, then hunted it for sixty years.
Two. The Barbary trade. A million Europeans taken to North Africa. Britain bombarded Algiers in 1816.
Three. The Saharan trade. A thousand years of caravans north across the desert. Britain had its northern end banned. Tripoli, 1857.
Four. The East African trade. Twenty thousand people a year through one customs house. Britain forced the market shut. 5 June 1873.
Five. The Ottoman trade. Raiders sold Eastern Europeans south for three hundred years. Britain made the Sultan ban it in 1854.
It cost sixty years and two thousand sailors. Nobody else fought all five. 🙏🇬🇧
It isn't over. Mauritania only made it a crime in 2007. Fifty million people are in slavery today.
Someone has to remember who started the fight. ⚓🇬🇧💪
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Sparkbrook, Birmingham.
Talk about importing the third world and becoming the third world.
#CelebrityTraitors this is slightly in a bad taste. Decapitation usually favoured by jihadists!
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🚨 LONG TERM PROJECT PAYS OFF!
ILLEGAL MIGRANT BOAT LAUNCH FILMED FROM BELGIUM!
An incredibly tough and challenging project that finally paid off and after reports of weapons also carried some risk
Full, unedited 8-minute video.
At around 3am this morning, I filmed a migrant boat launching from a Belgian beach, just across the French border, heading towards the UK.
Belgian authorities were present and appeared to watch as the boat departed.
I’ve spent months documenting crossings from France, but this is the first time I’ve captured a launch from Belgium.
As far as I’m aware, this could be the first time such a launch has been caught on camera.
I’m sharing the full footage so people can see exactly what happened and draw their own conclusions.
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🚨NEW: Footage from the Commons shows Nigel Farage and MP Caroline Voaden making their way down from their benches together to secure a place in the procession of MPs to the King's speech
The Lib Dems allege Farage "shoved her out the way" and "sent her flying"
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🚨The UK just secretly flew 24,000 Afghans into the country and made it illegal for the press to even cover the story. Now, it turns out all of them get free housing and welfare for "the rest of their lives" without ever having to work.
Doomed country.
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🚨POLICE DONT WANT YOU TO SEE THIS
Birmingham yesterday
Fatal stabbing of white man by a Muslim
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The post they keep taking down - Even though it is already public knowledge.
Second time of posting, first time the tweet mysterious disappeared - how could that happen.
Nigel Farage's home was fire bombed. The MET Police dismissed the incident as a robbery attempt. Failed to fully investigate. Does anyone believe MET Chief Constable was not involved in that decision?
It has now been admitted by the MET Police that video existed of the suspect trying to force the door, and that they found a failed IED, an incineration device, inside the vestibule, that had failed to fully deploy.
We now know the same suspect appeared in court charged with fire bombing of Farage's home as has been charged with the murder of Anne Widdecombe.
It appears the MET Police failure to investigate, to downgrade a fire bombing to a robbery, could have resulted in an avoidable murder taking place. The murder of Anne Widdecombe might have been avoidable.
The MET have referred themselves to the IOC. This is a huge scandal brewing for the MET and Rowley. This is second time posting, this is all on the public record but mysteriously the tweet disappears.
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"UK announces further tariff suspensions on food, drink and fuel"
Not a big deal in the wider scheme of things but also, of course, not possible if the UK were still in the EU, or even just a customs union... 👇
gov.uk/government/news/every…
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Good morning @EdwardJDavey
This colourful chap is One Of Yours.
Who is vetting Your People?
🚨 LIB DEM COUNCILLOR CHARGED WITH THREATS TO KILL
Tim Caswell, 66.. a Bedford Borough councillor and speaker of the council has been charged with:
🚨 Making threats to kill.
🚨 Possessing an offensive weapon.
🚨 Threatening to damage or destroy property.
Armed police responded to the incident in Bedford.
Caswell has pleaded not guilty to all three charges, but has been remanded in custody.
Remind me not to get vetting advice from the Lib Dems. 🥴
