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Abu al-Abbas was one of Yasser Arafat s top generals. His name is forever linked to an operation in 1985 that sparked an international the hijacking of an Italian cruise liner named the Achille Lauro and the death of Leon Klinghoffer, an elderly American tourist. This memoir by the wife of Abu al-Abbas recalls an era of Palestinian resistance, the hard realities of a cause that faced impossible odds, and the irony that the death of a single man should outweigh all arguments of right and wrong. From a preview of Curse of the Achille Abu al-Abbas told his wife . . . that his intention was to carry out an honorable operation against the Israeli Army . . . . I wanted them to reach not to fight the passengers on board (the Achille Lauro). (Abu al-Abbas) was to be haunted by the crime for the rest of his life. And when he died mysteriously in US custody in a Baghdad prison camp after America s 2003 invasion, all the world remembered of Al-Abbas was a crippled man called Leon Klinghoffer. No-one cared how an apparently healthy man would die in American hands. - Robert Fisk, The Independent

Author

Reem al-Nimer

Publisher

Cune Press, LLC

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9781614570783

Subjects

Social Science, History, Biography