Italy to seek extradition of Abul Abbas

Italy will seek the extradition of Abul Abbas, the Palestinian terror leader captured by US commandos in a raid near Baghdad last night, the justice minister said today.

Italy to seek extradition of Abul Abbas
Wed, 16 Apr, 2003 - 17:16

Italy will seek the extradition of Abul Abbas, the Palestinian terror leader captured by US commandos in a raid near Baghdad last night, the justice minister said today.

Abbas’s Palestinian Liberation Front killed an American on the hijacked Italian cruise liner Achille Lauro in 1985.

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