One of the bonuses of the Iraq campaign was the capture of Abu Abbas in Baghdad, where he was living courtesy of Saddam Hussein.(The Week)(Brief Article)

* One of the bonuses of the Iraq campaign was the capture of Abu Abbas in Baghdad, where he was living courtesy of Saddam Hussein. A Palestinian, he left his particular mark on history in 1985 as the leader of a team that hijacked a cruise liner, the Achille Lauro, in the Mediterranean. One of the passengers was Leon Klinghoffer, an elderly and disabled American. His fate was to be shot in front of his wife and thrown overboard in his wheelchair. He had been singled out because he was a Jew. To that point, perhaps no single act of terrorist cruelty had so revolted the watching world. Abbas and his gunmen fled the ship, and caught an ...