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Collection: Counterterrorism and Narcotics, Office of, NSC: Records Folder Title: Terrorism: Individuals: Hammadei, Mohammed [Muhammad Hammadi] (9) Box: RAC Box 8 To see more digitized collections visit: https://reaganlibrary.gov/archives/digital-library To see all Ronald Reagan Presidential Library inventories visit: https://reaganlibrary.gov/document-collection Contact a reference archivist at: [email protected] Citation Guidelines: https://reaganlibrary.gov/citing National Archives Catalogue: https://catalog.archives.gov/ WITHDRAWAL SHEET Ronald Reagan Library Collection Name COUNTERTERRORISM AND NARCOTICS, NSC: Withdrawer RECORDS SMF 5/19/2010 File Folder TERRORISM: INDIVIDUALS: HAMMADEI, MOHAMMED FOIA [MUHAMMAD HAMMADI] MCNAMARA, NSC STAFF (9) F97-082/4 () ' 11 '"' Box Number ~fi.,.D ~ vo1· '(1 WILLS 19 ID Doc Type Document Description No of Doc Date Restrictions Pages 91627 CABLE BELGRADE 06289 2 6/28/1988 B 1 91628 REPORT RE HAMMADEI TRIAL 1 7/6/1988 Bl B3 91629 CABLE 071231Z OCT 88 4 10/7/1988 Bl B3 The above documents were not referred for declassification review at time of processing Freedom of Information Act· [5 U.S.C. 552(b)] B·1 National security classified information [(b)(1) of the FOIA] B·2 Release would disclose Internal personnel rules and practices of an agency [(b)(2) of the FOIA] B·3 Release would violate a Federal statute [(b)(3) of the FOIA] B-4 Release would disclose trade secrets or confidential or financial Information [(b)(4) of the FOIA] B-6 Release would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy [(b)(6) of the FOIA] B·7 Release would disclose Information compiled for law enforcement purposes [(b)(7) of the FOIA] B-8 Release would disclose information concerning the regulation of financial institutions [(b)(B) of the FOIA] B·9 Release would disclose geological or geophysical information concerning wells [(b)(9) of the FOIA] C. Closed in accordance with restrictions contained in donor's deed of gift. WITHDRAWAL SHEET Ronald Reagan Library Collection Name Withdrawer COUNTERTERRORJSM AND NARCOTICS, NSC: RECORDS SMF 5/19/2010 File Folder FOIA TERRORISM: INDIVIDUALS: HAMMADEI, MOHAMMED F97-082/4 [MUHAMMAD HAMMAD!] MCNAMARA, NSC STAFF (9) WILLS Box Number 92270 19 ID Document Type No of Doc Date Restric- Document Description pages tions 91627 CABLE 2 6/28/1988 Bl BELGRADE 06289 The above documents were not referred for declassification review at time of processing Freedom of Information Act - (5 U.S.C. 552(b)] B-1 National security classified information [(b)(1) of the FOIA) B-2 Release would disclose Internal personnel rules and practices of an agency [(b)(2) of the FOIA] B-3 Release would violate a Federal statute [(b)(3) of the FOIA] B-4 Release would disclose trade secrets or confidential or financial information [(b)(4) of the FOIA) B-6 Release would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy [(b)(6) of the FOIA] B-7 Release would disclose information compiled for law enforcement purposes [(b)(7) of the FOIA] B-8 Release would disclose Information concerning the regulation of financial institutions [(b)(8) of the FOIA] B-9 Release would disclose geological or geophysical information concerning wells [(b)(9) of the FOIA] C. Closed in accordance with restrictions contained in donor's deed of gift. THE WASHINGTON POST -- July.: · ~' ~· ~~ ... · TWA Hii~cking Trial !Jegins f ------· -- - . ;- ~ ~ iri West German.Court 1 complained of a headache. He ap­ peared relaxed and even scornful of H~mmadi Refuses to Enter Plea to Charges the proceedings, yawning repeat­ edly and fingering a string of dark­ jet hijacking, which he is accused of colored worry beads. He wore a By Robert J. McCartney helping to stage, the hijackers de­ light blue shirt and blue jeans, and Washington P061 Foreign Service manded release of more than 700 was clean-shaven with medium­ FRANKFURT, July 5-A West ".Lebanese Shiites detained by Israel. length hair. German state prosecutor accused Richard and Patricia Stethem, The defense challenged the se­ Lebanese Mohammed Ali Hammadi parents of murdered Navy diver lection of Hammadi's German-Ara· of murder, air hijacking and other Robert Dean Stethem of Waldorf, bic interpreter on grounds that he crimes at the opening of his trial Md., represented themselves, their was biased, and said that one of the today, and the parents of a slain ·three surviving children and six three· substitute court members U.S. Navy diver confronted the de­ U.S. hijacking victims who were lacked sufficient experience for. the fendant in court as coplaintiffs with held 17 days after the diversion of job. the prosecution. their TWA Athens-tO-Rome flight. The five-member court', which · Hammadi formally declined to The two hijackers wielded two pronounces the verdict, is made up enter a plea responding to the hand grenades and a pistol in seiz­ of three judges and two lay jurors. charges. He gave his name and re- · ing the Boeing 727 and shot Ste­ The substitutes observe proceed-. buffed · presiding judge Heiner them in the head while holding him ings in case they later are called as Mueckenberger's request that he in the plane's doorway, the prose­ replacements. · identify his birthplace and provide cution charged. They dumped him Presiding judge Mueckenberger other biographical information. was generally conciliatory toward The trial, which is expected to on the tarmac of Beirut's interna­ the.defense's repeated calls for re­ last into next year, opened in a new, tional airport, where he subse­ top-security courtroom., Six large quently died, it said. cesses. At one· point, however, he panes of bulletproof glass separated The prosecution identified Ham­ ordered the court stenographer to the official participants from a gal­ madi's accomplice as H. Izzaldine of record that defense attorney Mi­ lery of 100 journalists and specta- Lebanon, who is still at large. The chael Senz was aggressively inter-' tors. .hijackers are believed to have killed rupting the session . Authorities took no extra precau­ Stethem to pressure airport author­ The prosecution said that the tions despite the U.S.-Iranian con­ ities to refuel ~he plane. hijackers beat Stethem and other frontation, because, as court The American . coplaintiffs, who passengers in 16 cases of physical spokesman Falk Thomas said , "You are able to participate in court pro-· maltreatment using a dangerous can. t go over 100 percent." · ceedings under West German law, weapon. Hammadi, a Shiite Moslem has want "just punishment".. for the · The U.S. coplain.tiffs' lawyer, been linked to the pro-Iranian 'Leb­ gui~ty rather' than "blind revenge," Hamm, asserted that the trial is anese Shiite militia group Hezbollah their West German lawyer, Rainer • taking place "in the wrong country," or Party of God. In the 1985 TWA Hanun, told the court. ·· 1 n1s cauuu~ because West Germany a year ago be any help for their son or brother, . refused a U.S. request to extradite but they hope that it will spare oth­ Hammadi to Washington for trial. er families the same suffering " In doing so, the Bonn govern­ Hamm said. ' ment bowed in part to pressure The Stethems did not speak to from the Lebanese kidnapers of the media in the courtroom and West German bu!)inessman Rudolf Hamm said that they preferred not Cordes, He was grabbed in Beirut to do so at this time. They were the four days after Hammadi's arrest at only ones of the 11 coplaintiffs to the Frankfurt airport · 18 months appear here, he said. ago~ and his abductors warned Bonn Prosecutor Achim Thiel read a against extraditing Hammadi. half-hour summary of charges at a Hamm asked the court to assure court of West Germany's south­ the public that the threat to Cordes central state of Hesse in this nation­ would not affect the trial's outcome · al financial capital. 1 Guards did two body searches 0~ Hammadi's four defense lawyers each journalist and spectator who squabbled among themselves and used apparent delaying tactics that e~tered the visitors' gallery. Police •~s uit ed m t'!ur recesses during UJe with machine guns patrolled outside half-day session. the courthouse, built on the .Proceedings broke off for 40 grounds of a state prison . ~-1~1~~:es at one point to allow Ham- - - .... &. "" _.... ...,; ...........,.1;.cu ro.,. ~{f-o ..- t... ..... ehanese Accused of Killing U.S. Navy Diver to Go on Tria 0 ---By-R..,...obe-rt_J_._M_c_C_ar-tn_e_y__ r .. ··: ., .....· ;, .., . .. , . .. --= .. - " aggra~ated robbery.and what trans- washington Post Foreign Service t :r~irty-nme Amencans _out of the I lates from German as "robber-like 1ongmal 153 passengers and crew •extortion." He faces lesser charges . FRANKFURT, July 4-Shortly :were held hostage for the full 17 1 of causing grievous bodily harm, after 2:30 a.m. on June 15, 1985, ;days. More than 700 Moslem de- ' explosives violations and forgery. two radical Shiite hijackers wearing , :tainees held by Israel were released ! . The stakes in the case are mixed Palm. Beach suits and Italian shoes ;in stages, as the hijackers had de- ! for West Germany, where Hamadei dragged U.S. Navy diver Robert ! :manded, after the hijacking ended. · ~ was caught 18 months ago at Frank­ Dean Stethem of Waldorf, Md., to ! Hamadei faces a mandatory life '. furt airport as he allegedly tried to the door of a TWA jet parked on a I ;sentence if he is convicted of mur· smuggle in four bottles of highly ex- runway of Beirut International Air- ) ;dering .Stethem. The prosecution plosive liquid disguised as wine . port, shot him in the head and .:plans to call 125 witnesses, includ- .
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