TOPSHOT-LEBANON-CHI'ITE MILITIAMEN-TWA HIJACKING

TOPSHOT - Two Lebanese Chi'ite Moslem gunmen, his face hidden with a bag, who hijacked 14 June 1985 a TWA passenger Boeing 727 aircraft, shout anti-US slogans 21 June 1985 during a rally at the Beirut airport. The Lebanese Shi'ite Moslem gunmen, reputedly members of Hezbollah (the Party of God), hijacked the TWA jetliner 14 June 1985 with 153 people on board, after taking off from Athens to Rome. After twice flying to Beirut and Algiers, and releasing more than 100 hostages, the hijackers landed for the third time in Beirut. They demanded the release of over 700 prisoners, mostly Shi'ites, from Israeli jails and the withdrawal of Israeli troops from Southern Lebanon. After they killed a young US Marine 15 June and released five of hostages, the terrorists freed all passengers 30 June. Americans were then driven in a Red Cross convoy to Damascus before flying to a US base in West Germany. (Photo by JOEL ROBINE / AFP) (Photo by JOEL ROBINE/AFP via Getty Images)