Life and Unexplained Death
When 55-year-old Mohamed Aboul Abbas died mysteriously in a US prison camp in Iraq on Tuesday, nobody bothered to call his family.
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...in his last letter to his family, written just seven weeks ago and shown to The Independent in Baghdad yesterday, the Palestinian militant wrote that, "I am in good form and in good health", adding that he hoped to be freed soon. So what happened to Mohamed Aboul Abbas?
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Although a prominent colleague of Yasser Arafat for more than three decades, the world will forever link his name with the hijacking of the Achille Lauro cruise ship in 1985, when members of his small "Palestine Liberation Front" commandeered the vessel in the Mediterranean and, in a cruel killing that was to cause international outrage, shot dead Leon Klinghoffer, an elderly American Jew in a wheelchair, and tipped his corpse into the sea.
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One photo shows Aboul Abbas with Abu Jihad, Mr Arafat's deputy, shortly before his murder by Israelis in Tunis. Abu Jihad might have proved to be Mr Arafat's rightful successor...
Robert Fisk/lndependent-UK/Common Dreams Mar.11.04
Ashura
