Curse of the Achille Lauro

Name: Curse of the Achille Lauro
Brand: Cune Press
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By Reem Al-Nimer

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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 crisis: 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."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 Ashdod: 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

Product details

Binding:: Paperback
Number of Pages:: 206
Release Date:: 2014-04-01
Publication Date:: 2014-04-01
Publisher:: Cune Press
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 1614570787
ISBN13:: 9781614570783
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:: [email protected]
Weight:: 307 g
Height:: 152 cm
Width:: 229 cm
Thickness:: 11 cm

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