1985 The Cruise Ship Achille Lauro

Half of her passengers had left the ship for an excursion overland to Port Said when the terrorists seized her.

1985 the cruise ship achille lauro. The gunmen are demanding. The Achille Lauro left Genoa Italy on October 3 for a 12-day cruise of the Mediterranean Sea. Achille Lauro hijacking hijacking of the Italian cruise ship the MS Achille Lauro on Oct.

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak persuaded the hijackers to surrender but not before they shot to death a wheelchair-bound Jewish passenger from the United States named Leon. The Achille Lauro traveled to the Syrian port of Tartus where the terrorists demanded negotiations on October 8. MS Achille Lauro was a cruise ship based in Naples Italy.

In October 1985 four Palestinian terrorists hijacked the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro in the Mediterranean. The hijackers took the more than 400 passengers and crew members hostage and demanded the. MS Achille Lauro the Infamous October Cruise in 1985.

As such only 97 remained onboard. Aboard were 748 passengers and several hundred crew. The Palestinian guerrilla leader who masterminded the 1985 hijacking of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro in which a disabled American tourist.

Death of Klinghoffer. 7 1985 by four Palestinian militants associated with a faction of the Palestine Liberation Front PLF. Naples Alexandria Port Said Ashdod Limassol Rhodes Piraeus Capri and then back to Genoa.

Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro leaves Port Said harbor on Oct. On 7 th October at Alexandria 651 of the passengers from the Achille Lauro left for a bus tour of the pyramids leaving 97 onboard. 10 1985 after Egyptian authorities stopped it from sailing to the Israeli port of Ashdod.