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- WORLD, Page 31World NotesGREECEStriking Back
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- The Bush Administration would have preferred to see him tried
- in the U.S. But when Palestinian Mohammed Rashid, 40, was
- sentenced by a Greek court to 18 years in prison after being
- found guilty of premeditated murder in the 1982 bombing of a Pan
- American jet, Washington felt it had scored a victory.
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- Rashid was arrested in Athens in 1988 on a tip from U.S.
- officials who had assiduously tracked him down and gathered
- detailed evidence against him. But when Washington failed in its
- attempts to extradite him to stand trial in the U.S. for the
- midair bombing over Hawaii that killed a 16-year-old Japanese
- boy and injured 15 other passengers, officials feared that
- Greece might simply let Rashid go or acquit him. Now Rashid's
- lawyer is insisting that the Palestinian might be paroled in as
- little as seven years -- or even acquitted on appeal.
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