FBI releases age processed images of 1986 Karachi plane hijackers
Friday, January 19th, 2018 12:43:07 by fatimaarshad
After more than 30 years of Pan Am flight 73 hijacking incident which took place in Karachi, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has released ‘age processed images’ of the alleged hijackers involved.
The recent release of these images shows that the FBI has still not given up on the arrest of these terrorists and a fresh hunt has been launched to nab them.
The hijacking took place in 1985 at Karachi airport in which hijackers took over the Pan Am flight 73, leading to massive chaos on the flight. The incident left 20 people dead including two Americans. Since then, the bureau has been on the lookout for the terrorists who managed to escape, but even after 31 years, they still haven’t been able to find them.
The images have been processed using Adobe Photoshop’s program on January 11, and they have been disseminated far and wide using all media channels. The images show how the four alleged terrorists would look like today.
The development is aimed at evolving new leads and encouraging the public to report any information they may have, in order to nab the culprits.
“The FBI has worked tirelessly over the past 31 years to bring the perpetrators of the horrific 1986 hijacking aboard Pan Am flight 73 to justice,” said assistant director in charge of the FBI’s Washington, DC field office Andrew W Vale.
He added: “The use of aged-progressed photographs is just one investigative technique the FBI is utilizing to accomplish this mission.”
The suspects include Wadoud Muhammad Hafiz al Turki, Jamal Saeed Abdul Rahim, Muhammad Abdullah Khalil Hussain ar-Rahayyal and Muhammad Ahmed al -Munawar.
The FBI included the names of the four suspects in its most wanted list in 2009. The State Department’s Rewards for Justice Programme has offered a reward money of up to $5 million each for any leads that may prove useful in the arrests of the alleged hijackers.
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on Jan 19 2018. Filed under Latest News, World.
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