Editing MS Achille Lauro (section)

====1985 hijacking====
{{Main|Achille Lauro hijacking}}
On 7 October 1985, four members of the [[Palestine Liberation Front]] (PLF) took control of the liner off Egypt as she was sailing from [[Alexandria]] to [[Port Said]]. Holding the passengers and crew hostage, they directed the vessel to sail to [[Tartus]], [[Syria]], and demanded the release of 50 [[Palestinians]] then in Israeli prisons. After being refused permission to dock at Tartus, the hijackers killed disabled Jewish-American passenger [[Leon Klinghoffer]] and then threw his body overboard.<ref name="autogenerated1">{{cite web |last=Berman |first=Daphna |url=http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=981987&contrassID=2&subContrassID=16 |title=Klinghoffer daughters recall personal tragedy at commemoration of terror victims outside Israel |work=Haaretz |date=9 May 2008}}</ref>

The ship then headed back towards Port Said, and after two days of negotiations, the hijackers agreed to abandon the liner in exchange for safe conduct and were flown towards [[Tunisia]] aboard an Egyptian commercial airliner. This airliner, however, was intercepted by U.S. Navy [[Grumman F-14 Tomcat|F-14 Tomcat]] fighter aircraft and directed to land in [[Sicily]]. There, the United States [[Delta Force]] unsuccessfully attempted to extract the hijackers in order to try them in the United States, thereby causing the [[Crisis of Sigonella|Sigonella Crisis]]. The four terrorists were ultimately sentenced to prison terms by the Italian courts, while the operation's mastermind, who had not taken part in the actual hijacking, was given passage to Yugoslavia and escaped.<ref>{{cite news|title=U.S. Reported to have evidence linking PLO Aide to Hijacking|first=Philip|last=Shenon|newspaper=The New York Times|date=October 14, 1985|url= https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1985/10/14/077673.html?pageNumber=1}}</ref>