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Ship Hijacker
On Parole
New York (JTA) — The
daughters of Leon Kl-
inghoffer are enraged at an
Italian court's decision this
week to grant conditional
parole to one of the Palestin-
ians implicated in the hi-
jacking of the Italian cruise
liner Achille Lauro.
Mr. Klinghoffer, an elderly
Jewish man confined to a
wheelchair, was shot and
thrown overboard by ter-
rorists during the October
1985 hijacking. His body
washed up on the shore of
Syria and was turned over to
the United States.
At a meeting of the B'nai
B'rith Anti-Defamation
League held here, Mr. Kl-
inghoffer's daughters, Lisa
and Esa, issued a statement
strongly criticizing the deci-
sion by a court in Genoa to
grant conditional liberty to
Bassam al-Ashker, now 23.
Mr. Ashker, who was 17 at
the time of the crime, was
identified after the hijacking
by Mr. Klinghoffer's late
widow, Marilyn, and
sentenced by a juvenile court
in December 1986 to serve
16 years and three months
in prison.
As a result of the parole,
he is to live with the prison
chaplain in a nearby
Catholic sanctuary and is to
work at the Genoa office of
the Red Cross, the Italian
news agency ANSA re-
ported.
Magid al-Mulqi, the Pales-
tinian who shot Klinghoffer
and ordered his body
dumped overboard, was
given a 30-year prison
sentence. However, neither
he nor any other defendants
were convicted of murder.
The Klinghoffer daughters
were angered upon learning
of Mr. Ashker's conditional
liberty. Noting that he had
served just one-third of his
sentence, they said his
release is a "miscarriage of
justice," even given the con-
ditions under which he has
been granted parole.
"Community service may
be appropriate for such a
terrorist while in prison, but
it is no substitute for
prison," they said in the
statement. Mr. Ashker is the
third Achille Lauro hijacker
to be granted a pardon by
Italy this year. In January,
two of the terrorists serving
prison sentences for their
part in the hijacking were
released.
The Klinghoffer daughters
and ADL National Director
Abraham Foxman sent a
letter to Italian Prime Min-
ister Giulio Andreotti.
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