Palestinians call for the release of Abu Abbas, captured by U.S. forces in Baghdad, saying he was given amnesty under the 1993 Oslo peace accord. But Italy hints it may seek the extradition of Abbas, ...

There has been a lot of encouraging news out of the war in Iraq, but it is going to be hard to top the arrest of the Palestinian Arab terrorist known as Abu Abbas. He is the mastermind of the ...

April 15 -- Abu Abbas, the mastermind of the 1985 hijacking of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro, has been captured by U.S. troops in Baghdad, U.S. officials said today. The Achille Lauro ...

U.S. officials say Abu Abbas, the mastermind of the Achille Lauro cruise ship hijacking, has died while in U.S. custody in Iraq. Abbas, also known as Mohammed Abbas, is believed to have suffered a ...

WASHINGTON -- U.S. forces in Baghdad yesterday captured the leader of a Palestinian terrorist group responsible for the 1985 attack on an Italian cruise ship, the Achille Lauro, in which an American ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Mahmoud "Abu Mazen" Abbas is a President for the Palestinian Authority with 74 videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 1993 Statement as an Official for ...