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WORLD, Page 31World NotesGREECEStriking Back
The Bush Administration would have preferred to see him tried
in the U.S. But when Palestinian Mohammed Rashid, 40, was
sentenced by a Greek court to 18 years in prison after being
found guilty of premeditated murder in the 1982 bombing of a Pan
American jet, Washington felt it had scored a victory.
Rashid was arrested in Athens in 1988 on a tip from U.S.
officials who had assiduously tracked him down and gathered
detailed evidence against him. But when Washington failed in its
attempts to extradite him to stand trial in the U.S. for the
midair bombing over Hawaii that killed a 16-year-old Japanese
boy and injured 15 other passengers, officials feared that
Greece might simply let Rashid go or acquit him. Now Rashid's
lawyer is insisting that the Palestinian might be paroled in as
little as seven years -- or even acquitted on appeal.