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Germany Releases 1985 Hezbollah Hijacker Mohammed Ali Hamadi –
Ignoring Washington’s Extradition Request

Germany has quietly released a jailed Hezbollah member wanted by the US for killing an American Navy diver. The timing — just days after the freeing of a German hostage in Iraq — has raised uncomfortable questions.

Apparently ignoring Washington’s extradition request for Mohammed Ali Hamadi, German authorities have secretly released the Lebanese Hezbollah member who was serving a life sentence in the country for the hijacking of a TWA jet and for the murder of a US navy diver.

TWA flight 847 from Athens to Rome was hijacked to Beirut, where the hijackers shot US Navy diver Robert Dean Stethem, 23, of Waldorf, Maryland, and dumped his body on the tarmac.


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German prosecutors confirmed the release of Mohammed Ali Hamadi, now in his late 30s, to the Associated Press and said he was flown back to Lebanon last week.

The German Foreign Ministry however has denied any link between the Hamadi and Osthoff releases. “There is no connection between these two cases,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Martin Jäger told Reuters.

But a Lebanese source told Reuters that a senior German intelligence officer visited Damascus early this month but did not disclose the purpose of the trip. Syria is a key backer of Hezbollah and Hamadi’s brother, Abdul-Hadi, was a senior security official of the group.

Hamadi’s release may anger Washington

Meanwhile, the release could anger Washington as US prosecutors had indicted him for Stethem’s murder and requested extradition if he was released.  

The U.S. embassy in Berlin had no immediate comment. Diplomats said privately that it could further complicate touchy relations between the two allies that had warmed considerably since a dispute over the Iraq war.

U.S. State Dep’t Washington DC

Uli Derickson, Brave Flight Attendant

She testified in West Germany at the trial of Mohammed Ali Hamadi, one of the hijackers who was convicted of murdering Stethem. He received a life sentence.

She also served as a consultant for the NBC-TV movie, “The Taking of Flight 847: The Uli Derickson Story.” Actress Lindsay Wagner played Derickson.

“Treason doth never prosper: what’s the reason?
For if it prosper, none dare call it treason.”

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