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Article: Iran tie to hijacking told // Terrorist boarded in Mashhad: passengers
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- April 14, 1988
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Evidence of Iranian involvement in the ongoing Kuwaiti jet
hijacking episode surfaced Wednesday with reports from freed
passengers that one of the terrorists boarded in Iran, where fresh
weapons were supplied, and that their speech and patterns bore
Iranian overtones.
Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat charged
flatly that Iran "is directly behind" the hijacking.
The Boeing 747 spent 80 hours on the ground in Mashhad, in
northeastern Iran, after it was commandeered on a flight from
Bangkok, Thailand, early April 5 with 112 passengers and crew
members.
Wednesday night, the plane remained at Houari Boumedienne
Airport in the Algerian capital of Algiers, where ...