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Failed Hijack
Suggests PLO
Rome (JTA) — Italian au-
thorities are investigating
the failed hijack Sept. 19 of
an Alitalia flight to Tunis.
Although it appears to
have been the work of a
lovelorn Tunisian immi-
grant upset by losing his job
in Italy, the authorities are
not fully convinced there
might not have been a polit-
ical motive.
One source of suspicion
was the presence on the air-
craft of Nemer Hammad, the
Palestine Liberation Organ-
ization's representative in
Italy.
The authorities also
suspect that the admitted hi-
jacker, Hedi Ben Hassan
Bouchnak, might have
pretended to be mentally
unhinged to cover his real
motives when it became
clear the hijack attempt
would fail.
Arrested in Tunis, Mr.
Bouchnak said he tried to
seize the plane with 137
people aboard for revenge
because "Italy treated me
badly."
Italian news reports said
Mr. Bouchnak was depress-
ed by financial difficulties
after he lost his job and by
problems with his fiancee,
who stayed in Tunis when he
moved to Italy.
Reports said that Mr.
Bouchnak claimed to have a
pistol and a bomb when he
briefly took over the plane in
flight.
In fact, he had neither,
which was a source of relief
to officials of Rome's
Fiumicino Airport.
Fiumicino was the scene of
one of the worst terrorist
acts of the decade when, in
1985, Palestinian gunmen
killed or wounded dozens of
people in the terminal. Since
then, the airport has been
regularly patrolled by a
force of some 600 uniformed
and plainclothes security
men assisted by trained
dogs.
Airport director Mario
Luzzati told the newspaper
La Repubblica that it would
be "practically impossible"
for anyone to board a plane
carrying arms or explosives.
Had Mr. Bouchnak suc-
ceeded, heads would have
rolled among the airport
brass.
In 1922 a joint resolution
was unanimously adopted by
both Houses of Congress and
signed by President Warren
G. Harding, favoring the es-
tablishment of a Jewish Na-
ti onal Homeland in
Palestine.
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