Voyage of Terror: The Achille Lauro Affair
Voyage of Terror: The Achille Lauro Affair is a 1990 TV miniseries based on the 1985 Achille Lauro hijacking and starring Burt Lancaster.
The two part series aired on TV in 1990 and was filmed on the actual Achille Lauro cruise ship. It is the second adaption of the hijacking, after 1989's The Hijacking of the Achille Lauro.
Voyage of Terror: The Achille Lauro Affair
The Achille Lauro hijacking took place on 7 October 1985, when the Italian ocean liner MSĀ Achille Lauro was hijacked by four men representing the Palestine Liberation Front (PLF) off the coast of Egypt, as she was sailing from Alexandria to Ashdod, Israel. A 69-year-old Jewish American man in a wheelchair, Leon Klinghoffer, was murdered by the hijackers and thrown overboard. The hijacking sparked the "Sigonella Crisis".
The Achille Lauro c. 1987
Freed hostages from Achille Lauro returning to the US by military aircraft
President George W. Bush In Cincinnati on October 7, 2002, charges Saddam Hussein's Iraq with harboring Abu Abbas.