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Hijackers Caught and Deported

December 6, 1971
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Two Arab terrorists, known for having hijacked planes in the past, were arrested today and deported from Holland to Lebanon. Official sources revealed that the two Arabs, one Jordanian and one Iraqi, had been arrested and shortly after put on a KLM plane flying to Beirut. Details of the arrest and the names of the two men were not given but it was stated that both of them had participated in the past in various terrorist outrages and airplane hijackings.

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