U.S. Troops Capture Abu Abbas in Baghdad, April 14, 2003
U.S. troops in Baghdad capture Abu Abbas, leader of the Palestinian group that killed an American on the hijacked cruise liner MS Achille Lauro in 1985.
Date: April 14, 2003
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