Mohammed Ali Hammadi

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Mohammed Ali Hamadei (Arabic: محمد علي حمادي), also known as Mohammed Ali Hamadi (13 June 1964 – 21 January 2025), was a Lebanese terrorist who was on the FBI's Most Wanted Terrorists list, being most notable for being the lead hijacker in the TWA Flight 847 hijacking. A member of Hezbollah, he was convicted in a West German court of law of air piracy, murder, and possession of explosives for his part in the 14 June 1985 hijacking of TWA Flight 847. Under indictment by US law enforcement for crimes related to the same hijacking, during which one passenger, US Navy Seabee diver Robert Stethem, was extensively tortured prior to being murdered, Hamadei was sentenced to life imprisonment by the West German court. He was imprisoned in 1987 in West Germany for 19 years, but was paroled in 2005. He was considered a fugitive by the United States Department of Justice, which listed him as one of the FBI's Most Wanted Terrorists in 2006. There has been speculation that his parole was granted as part of a covert prisoner swap, in exchange for the release of Susanne Osthoff. Taken hostage in Iraq a month prior, Osthoff was released the week of Hamadei's parole.