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Wednesday, June 3, 1998 Published at 23:10 GMT 00:10 UK
World: Middle East
US arrests Palestinian over plane bombing
At his trial in Athens Mohammad Rashid said he was a victim of mistaken identity
The judicial authorities in the United States say they have arrested a former official of the Palestine Liberation Organisation and charged him with planting a bomb which exploded on an American airliner in 1982.
The bomb killed a Japanese national, but the plane landed safely in Hawaii.
The Palestinian, Mohammad Rashid, is due to appear in court in Washington charged with conspiracy to murder, assault and aircraft sabotage. He faces a possible life sentence.
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| BBC correspondent Bill Turnbull reports from Washington |
Rashid was first arrested in Greece on May 1988. Greece rejected an extradition request from the United States and in 1992 a Greek court found him guilty of premeditated murder in the 1982 bombing of the American airliner.
He was sentenced to 18 years in prison, but Greece released him at the end of 1996 for "good behaviour", a move which the United States protested against.
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