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Article: WEST GERMAN IS KIDNAPPED IN LEBANON

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January 19, 1987
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BONN - A West German businessman was kidnapped in Beirut, the Foreign Ministry said yesterday. Two newspapers said the kidnappers apparently hope to trade him for a Lebanese wanted in the United States, who is in jail as a terrorist in West Germany.

West German authorities said it was too early to say if Saturday's abduction of Rudolf Cordes, 53, was linked to the arrest Tuesday at Frankfurt Airport of Mohammed Ali Hamadi.

Hamadi, 22, who was carrying a fluid used to make explosives, was later identified as a suspect in the 1985 hijacking of a TWA airliner to Beirut.

Police in Beirut said yesterday they could not confirm that a West German had been kidnapped. The West German ...

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