US wants to try Lebanese hijacker

The US said today it wants Lebanon to turn over a man convicted in the 1985 hijacking of a TWA jetliner who was recently released from a German prison.

The US wants to prosecute Mohammed Ali Hamadi in the killing of a US Navy diver, Robert Dean Stethem, during the hijacking. Hamadi, who had been serving a life sentence in Germany, had been paroled.