The World - News from Feb. 26, 1989

A Lebanese Shiite Muslim was sentenced to life in prison for hijacking an Air Afrique jetliner in 1987, killing a French passenger and seriously wounding a flight attendant. Switzerland’s highest court convicted Hussein Mohammed Hariri, 22, on all seven charges including murder and hostage-taking. The ruling by the Federal Criminal Court followed a four-day trial in which the prosecution called Hariri a “killer blinded by conviction.” Hariri commandeered a flight to Paris in 1987, demanding the release of Lebanese and Palestinian prisoners. Among those prisoners was Mohammed Ali Hamadi, who is being tried in West Germany on charges linked to a 1985 TWA hijacking in which a U.S. Navy diver was killed.