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Germans have promised to release a brutal Hizbullah terrorist, who in June 1985 hijacked an American airliner to Beirut, and tortured and killed a U.S. Navy diver.
"SW-2 (Diver), United States Navy Robert Stethem (November 17, 1961 – June 15, 1985) was a United States Navy diver and steelworker second class. He was killed after the commercial airliner he was aboard, TWA Flight 847 was hijacked. When their demands were not met, Stethem was singled out. The hijackers learned he was a member of the US military. They beat and tortured him. Then, they shot him and dumped his body on the tarmac at the Beirut airport.
Stethem was posthumously awarded the Purple Heart and Bronze Star. He is buried in Arlington National Cemetery. In 1994, the US Navy launched USS Stethem (DDG-63) in his honor."
One of the hijackers Mohammed Homadi, was arrested two years later in Frankfurt, Germany. He was tried and convicted of Stethem's murder. He was sentenced to life in jail, but released on December 20, 2005.,....
add in that they were supplying Saddam with weapons...
"Still, the plastic around some of the rockets - of Soviet, German and French origins"
http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/news/story.jsp?idq=/ff/story/0001/20051220/1708085763.htm&ewp=ewp_news_1205iraq