TOPSHOT-LEBANON-TWA-SHI'ITE MOSLEM GUNMAN-GUN

TOPSHOT - One of the hijackers of TWA Boeing 727 holding a gun, emerging from the plane cockpit window 19 June 1985 at Beirut airport, orders the newsmen to move back from the hijacked jet-liner after they ended the interview of the three American crew members. - 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 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 NABIL ISMAIL / AFP) (Photo by NABIL ISMAIL/AFP via Getty Images)