U.S. Accused of Assassination Plot

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BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - A Palestinian guerrilla group accused the United States on Wednesday of assassinating its leader Abul Abbas, and a U.S. Pentagon official said the United States believes he died of a heart attack.

Abbas, 56, died Monday in U.S. detention in Baghdad. He was known for leading the 1985 hijacking of the Achille Lauro passenger ship in which a wheelchair-bound Jewish American tourist, Leon Klinghoffer, was killed and thrown overboard.

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U.S. Accused of Assassination Plot

The U.S. deputy chief of operations in Iraq, Maj. Gen. Ma...

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