15 May Arab Organization Airline bomber to be freed from US prison

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Airline bomber to be freed from US prison

Posted: 17 March 2013 0737 hrs

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_world/view/1260502/1/.html

 

 

 

WASHINGTON: A Jordanian-born Palestinian man convicted of the 1982 bombing

of a Pan Am flight traveling to Hawaii from Japan is set to be released from

US federal prison Wednesday.

 

Mohammed Rashed has been sitting behind bars for more than two decades after

leaving a bomb under a jetliner seat that exploded on Pan Am Flight 830 from

Tokyo to Honolulu on August 11, 1982, killing a Japanese teenager and

injuring at least 15 others.

 

Justice Department spokesman Dean Boyd noted that Rashed, 63, has served

about 23 years in prison, including time served in Greek and US jails, over

the bomb plot.

 

The Federal Bureau of Prisons, which published his release date, said he is

currently held at the Federal Correctional Institution, McKean, a

medium-security jail in western Pennsylvania.

 

The explosives expert was part of 15 May, an Iraq-based pro-Palestinian

group that targeted US and Israeli interests in the 1980s, and he received

leniency in his Pan Am sentence for cooperating with international

authorities as an informant.

 

His release could deny the government a key witness should authorities

capture Abu Ibrahim (Hussayn Muhammad al-Umari), a Palestinian man believed

to have masterminded the attack and who is now on the FBI's most wanted

list.

 

Last year, Australian police reopened inquiries into the 1982 bombing of the

Israeli consulate in Sydney and a Jewish club, after finding links to

Rashed.

 

No one was killed but two people were injured in the attacks on the

consulate and the Jewish Hakoah sports club in Bondi on December 23, 1982 --

crimes that have gone unsolved for almost 30 years.

 

Sydney police have long suspected that 15 May, named for the first day of

the first Arab-Israeli war in 1948, was linked to the Hakoah club and

consulate bombings.

 

- AFP/jc

 

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