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- <text id=89TT0867>
- <title>
- Mar. 27, 1989: Convicted:Fawaz Yunis
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Mar. 27, 1989 Is Anything Safe?
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- MILESTONES, Page 85
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- <p> CONVICTED. Fawaz Yunis, 30, Lebanese Amal militiaman, of
- hostage taking and air piracy in the 1985 Beirut airport
- seizure of an airliner carrying 70 people, including two
- Americans; in Washington. Captured in 1987 in international
- waters off Cyprus in an FBI sting operation, he is the first
- person to be convicted under a 1984 law permitting U.S.
- authorities to apprehend terrorists outside the U.S.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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