Federal agents chased him to Ghana and to Nigeria where he was apprehended and brought to the United States to face air piracy charges. But his 25-year prison sentence was cut short in a general amnesty and he was released in February 1993. He pleaded guilty in Malta to murder and attempted murder. An Australian company Digital Works says they’ve developed a charger, the ReZap Battery Engineer, that can not only repower your rechargeable batteries, but can add new life to your disposable ones. Fifty-eight people died in the raid of explosive wounds, smoke inhalation or gunshot wounds. Rezaq, who had hoped to win the release of confederates imprisoned in Egypt, began shooting Americans and Israelis.Īfter 24 hours of futile negotiations, an Egyptian commando team detonated an explosive device and rushed the plane. When the plane was forced down in Malta after a shootout between one of the terrorists and an Egyptian sky marshal, Mr. Rezaq and two other members of the Abu Nidal terrorist organization, hijacked the Boeing 737 shortly after takeoff on Nov. ''You will only be one thing, a pitiful and cowardly murderer.'' Rezaq was wrong if he believed he would be considered a martyr for the terror and death he inflicted on innocent people.
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Rezaq who listened impassively to an Arabic translation of the proceedings through a set of headphones. The ReZAP Pro represents the latest development in the evolution of battery chargers from Digital Works. ''I feel guilty for what's happened.''Įdward Leonard, a Canadian, whose 27-year-old wife, Valinda, and infant son, Andrew, were among those killed when Egyptian commandos stormed the plane, bitterly condemned Mr. ''I cannot accept my own self what I did,'' he said. Rezaq, who spoke unemotionally, in halting English, said he was a different man from the terrorist who took over Flight 648 brandishing a hand grenade and methodically fired a revolver into the backs of the heads of five Americans and Israelis, killing two of them.
Some were sitting silently in the courtroom and said later that they did not accept his apology. Rezaq, who stood before the Judge wearing a blue jail jumpsuit, said he felt guilt for his crimes and sought forgiveness of his victims and their relatives. Rezaq, who is almost penniless, to pay $264,000 in restitution to his victims. Lamberth of United States District Court called the seizure ''heinous and cold-blooded'' and said he would recommend that Mr. A Federal judge today sentenced a Lebanese-born Palestinian to life in prison for the deadly 1985 hijacking of an Egypt Air flight from Athens to Cairo in which 60 people were killed.Īt the sentencing of Omar Mohammed Ali Rezaq, Judge Royce C.
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