HUNT HIM DOWN

I know I rage at the media a lot, but here’s one I came across in Newsday, they got off wire service reports. Of course it SHOULD have been front page, but at least they covered it even if the story’s buried on page 29.

Mohammed Ali Hamadi, the Lebanese mutt who beat 23-year old Navy diver, Robert Stethem, nearly to death, then shot him in the head and drop his body on the tarmac in Beirut during a TWA hijacking in 1985 was paroled by the German government after serving 19 years, despite pleas by the American government to make him finish out his life sentence.

The son of bitch has disappeared — naturally — but if we don’t use every asset in North Africa and the Middle East to snatch this dude and either have him fall victim of an “accident” or … well, it’ll just be another slap in the face of America and more fuel for the terrorist fire.

The hijacking served as the model for the Chuck Norris and Lee Marvin 1986 film “Delta Force.” The image of the initial stage of the hijacking and the one that came to symbolize hijackings worldwide, showed TWA pilot John Testrake calmly answering reporter’s questions with a gun to his head.

Hamadi better not be walking this time next month .., the American government has promised to hunt him down. Get him and give him over to any Navy divers and see what happens.

Oh. Thanks to the Germans. We'll be happy to return the favor given the chance.