In 1985, the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro was hijacked in the Mediterranean by armed militants posing as passengers. They took hostages and murdered an elderly disabled American man, throwing him ...

April 15 -- Abu Abbas, the mastermind of the 1985 hijacking of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro, has been captured by U.S. troops in Baghdad, U.S. officials said today. The Achille Lauro ...

U.S. officials say Abu Abbas, the mastermind of the Achille Lauro cruise ship hijacking, has died while in U.S. custody in Iraq. Abbas, also known as Mohammed Abbas, is believed to have suffered a ...