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March 23, 2004
Abul Abbas buried in Syria

JERUSALEM POST: Abul Abbas buried in Syria

More than 3,000 mourners gathered in Yarmouk refugee camp Tuesday for the burial of Palestinian militant Abul Abbas, mastermind of the 1985 hijacking of the Achille Lauro passenger ship.

Shops closed and women wept openly as a hearse bearing Abbas' body, draped in a Palestinian flag, made its way slowly through the narrow streets of the camp, on the outskirts of Damascus, to the Martyrs' Cemetery.

Abbas, 56, whose given name was Mohammed Abbas, died March 10 in U.S. custody in Iraq, where he was captured last April. U.S. officials said he died of natural causes but his faction, the Palestine Liberation Front, accused the United States of assassinating him.

Israel refused to allow his burial in the West Bank, and his body was flown to Syria earlier Tuesday by the International Committee of the Red Cross. Abbas was born in the Yarmouk camp in 1948.

Posted by Laurence Simon at March 23, 2004 02:16 PM | TrackBack
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May his hell be filled with wheelchairs and drowning.

Posted by: Ronin at March 23, 2004 02:36 PM

Not that I care about how this SOB met his end, but did we release an autopsy report to back up the stated cause of death?

Posted by: kh at March 23, 2004 02:44 PM

Why was his body released so that the other side could make a spectacle of it?

Posted by: Ray at March 23, 2004 02:54 PM

autopsy stated heart attack.

Posted by: ScottAK at March 23, 2004 05:07 PM

probably induced by lead poisoning

Posted by: billhedrick at March 23, 2004 05:10 PM

Did they wrap any portion of his body in pigskin? I wonder what the women were crying for?

Posted by: Helen at March 23, 2004 10:51 PM

Wasted an old guy in a wheel-chair. That's almost as heroic as strapping bombs on unknowing 10 year olds. The BBC still refers to these people as "freedom fighters". Unbelievable.

Posted by: silvertrain22 at March 24, 2004 03:17 PM

Somewhere on the other side, where justice rules, Leon Klinghoffer is playing croquet with Abul's skull.

Posted by: torpedo_eight at March 24, 2004 11:01 PM

Hey, Abul, hot enough for ya?

Posted by: Mona B. at March 25, 2004 03:59 PM

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