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Last update - 22:26 07/07/2008 Italy to expel Palestinian who took part in Achille Lauro cruise hijacking By The Associated Press Tags: Leon Klinghoffer, PFLP  Italian authorities have ordered a Palestinian man expelled after he served his sentence for taking part in the 1985 hijacking of the Achille Lauro cruise ship, which resulted in the murder of an American citizen. The 43-year-old Ibrahim Fatayer Abdelatif was freed Monday from a temporary holding center for illegal immigrants in Rome, his lawyer said. Lawyer Francesco Romeo said authorities have ordered Abdelatif to leave Italy within 15 days. Romeo said a request for political asylum had been turned down, but he plans to appeal the expulsion order because his client has nowhere to go. Advertisement Abdelatif was born in a refugee camp in Lebanon but is not a citizen of that country and Beirut will not let him back in, he said. Abdelatif was given a 25-year sentence for being a member of the four-man team that took over the Italian cruise ship off the Egyptian coast. During the hijacking an elderly, wheelchair-bound American from New York, Leon Klinghoffer, was shot and pushed overboard. Romeo said his client's sentence was reduced for good behavior. Before ending up in the holding center in April he spent 20 years in prison and three on parole working for a Catholic charity in the central Italian city of Perugia, the lawyer told The Associated Press by telephone. Others convicted in Italy for the hijacking include Youssef Magied al-Molqi, who was sentenced to 30 years for shooting Klinghoffer, and Khaled Husain Abdullrahim, who was given life in prison. The hijacking was organized by the militant Palestinian Liberation Front in part to demand the freedom of Samir Kantar, the convicted gunman now at the center of a prisoner swap between Israel and Hezbollah. Related articles: Klinghoffer daughters recall personal tragedy at commemoration of terror victims outside Israel Don't destroy terrorists' homes Fear of calling a terrorist a terrorist Every man a terror group Bookmark to del.icio.us   Prisoner exchange Israel signs swap deal, begins exhuming bodies of Hezbollah guerillas. Provocative questions Gaydamak tells TAU student to 'shut up and go to hell' over Angola question.   1.   He can join Samir Kuntar in Lebanon`s hero neighborhood 22:29  |  Binyamin Dissen 07/07/08   2.   it`s in style now to release murderers, rapists, thieves 22:47  |  Nach 07/07/08   3.   Israel should do the same with its own terrorists 23:06  |  David G 07/07/08   4.   Deterrence 23:08  |  Jane 07/07/08   5.   # 1 nach 23:44  |  Axel 07/07/08   6.   re #2 `it`s in style now...` 23:46  |  Colin Wright 07/07/08   7.   Bunch of goons!!!! 23:53  |  Lynn 07/07/08   8.   send him to gitmo 00:14  |  vik 08/07/08   9.   Look at it this way... 00:28  |  Ralph G 08/07/08   10.   # 8 vik 02:00  |  Axel 08/07/08   11.   5 Axel, still adhering to the good old 1933-45 years? 02:07  |  I 08/07/08   12.   There is a cell in Israel waiting for him 03:37  |  Baruch Gold 08/07/08   13.   His sentence should have been execution 03:56  |  Gina 08/07/08   14.   These are the best news of the day 05:06  |  Genuine Tosefta 08/07/08   15.   my response 05:27  |  vik 08/07/08   16.   A Solution 05:51  |  Jeremy 08/07/08   17.   # 15 vik 12:59  |  Axel 08/07/08

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