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'''Leon Klinghoffer''' (September 24, 1916 – October 8, 1985) was a proud American [[Jewish]] entrepreneur, inventor, and [[World War II]] veteran who was brutally murdered by [[Arab]]-"[[Palestinian]] [[terrorists]] from the Palestine Liberation Front (PLF) during the 1985 hijacking of the cruise ship [[Achille Lauro Hijacking|Achille Lauro]]. The wheelchair-bound 69-year-old was shot in the head and chest before being thrown overboard simply for being a Jewish American, in a stark act of Arab [[racist]] [[antisemitic]] terrorism..<ref>Salamon, J. (2019). [https://www.google.com/books/edition/An_Innocent_Bystander/z5xyDwAAQBAJ?hl=en An Innocent Bystander: The Killing of Leon Klinghoffer]. United States: Little, Brown.</ref><ref>Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the ... Congress. (1996). United States: U.S. Government Printing Office, [https://books.google.com/books?id=HalBAEjGvtYC&pg=PA9500 p.9500]</ref>
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'''Leon Klinghoffer''' (September 24, 1916 – October 8, 1985) was a proud American [[Jewish]] entrepreneur, inventor, and [[World War II]] veteran who was brutally murdered by [[Arab]]-"[[Palestinian]] [[terrorists]] from the Palestine Liberation Front (PLF) during the 1985 hijacking of the cruise ship [[Achille Lauro hijacking]]. The wheelchair-bound 69-year-old was shot in the head and chest before being thrown overboard simply for being a Jewish American, in a stark act of Arab [[racist]] [[antisemitic]] terrorism..<ref>Salamon, J. (2019). [https://www.google.com/books/edition/An_Innocent_Bystander/z5xyDwAAQBAJ?hl=en An Innocent Bystander: The Killing of Leon Klinghoffer]. United States: Little, Brown.</ref><ref>Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the ... Congress. (1996). United States: U.S. Government Printing Office, [https://books.google.com/books?id=HalBAEjGvtYC&pg=PA9500 p.9500]</ref>
 
They murdered Leon "not for any known crime but, rather, for the obvious crime of being Jewish."<ref>Kimmage, Michael. In History's Grip: Philip Roth's Newark Trilogy. United States: Stanford University Press, 2012, [https://books.google.com/books?id=1t68IjTaDYoC&pg=PA145 p.145]</ref><ref>Alexander, Y., Richardson, T. B. (2009). Terror on the High Seas: From Piracy to Strategic Challenge [2 Volumes]. Indonesia: ABC-CLIO, [https://books.google.com/books?id=sxbOEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA84 p.84]</ref>
 
They murdered Leon "not for any known crime but, rather, for the obvious crime of being Jewish."<ref>Kimmage, Michael. In History's Grip: Philip Roth's Newark Trilogy. United States: Stanford University Press, 2012, [https://books.google.com/books?id=1t68IjTaDYoC&pg=PA145 p.145]</ref><ref>Alexander, Y., Richardson, T. B. (2009). Terror on the High Seas: From Piracy to Strategic Challenge [2 Volumes]. Indonesia: ABC-CLIO, [https://books.google.com/books?id=sxbOEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA84 p.84]</ref>
  
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