Leon Klinghoffer Terrorist Murder 1985

Leon Klinghoffer murdered by terrorists, who found relative safety in Italy.
One of the hijackers, Youssef Magied Molqi, was eventually released on a 12 day pass for good behavior. See this page here for an interesting development in 1996:
http://www.usa-anti-communist.com/ard...

On October 7, 1985, four hijackers from the Palestine Liberation Front (PLF) took control of the Achille Lauro off Egypt as it was sailing from Alexandria to Port Said, Egypt.
Holding the passengers and crew hostage, they ordered the captain to sail to Tartus, Syria, and demanded the release of 50 Palestinians then in Israeli prisons, including the Lebanese prisoner Samir Kuntar.
The next day, after being refused permission by the Syrian government to dock at Tartus, the hijackers singled out Klinghoffer, a Jew and US citizen, for execution, shooting him in the forehead and chest as he sat in his wheelchair.
They then forced the ship's barber and a waiter to throw his body and wheelchair overboard.
Marilyn Klinghoffer, who did not witness the shooting, was told by the hijackers that he had been moved to the infirmary. She only learned the truth after the hijackers left the ship at Port Said. PLO Foreign Secretary Farouq Qaddumi said that perhaps the terminally ill Marilyn Klinghoffer had killed her husband for insurance.