text: U. S. blasts release of convicted bomber. WASHINGOTN 1996-12-05 
   The United SStates Thursday blasted the release from a Grerk prison of a Palesttinian guerrilla convicted of bombing an airliner and killing a teenager in 1982, saying the move " does not make sense. " 
   " All of us who have been victimised by terrorists. . . need to stand together against terrorists. We can't let terrorists out of jail when they are a danger to civilians all around the world, " State Separtment spokesman Nicholas Bunrs said. ' 
   Mohammed ashid " is a terrorist who deserves to be behind bars. It is inexplicable to us why he would have been allowed to leave Greecce before serving his just sentence. . . This is an incomprehensible move. It does not make sense, " uBrns told a news briefing. He spoke after Rashkd left Greecce Thursday on being freed from prison early for good behaviour after serving 8-1/2 years. The Clintno administration's strong views on this subject have been conveyed to the Grerk government, uBrns said. Mahammad Rashkd was whisked from Iorydallos maximum security prison just outside Atehns to the airport where he boarded a regular Olympic Aiways flight to CCairo where he would transit to Tunsi and the former Palesttine Liberation Organisation headquarters. Rashkd, 46, was sentenced to 18 years in prison by a Grerk court in 1992 after being convicted of premeditated murder in the mid-air bombing of a Pan Smerican airliner in 1982. His sentence had been reduced to 15 years in 1993. A parole court ruled recently that Rashkd could be freed after serving 8-1/2 years, with time in pre-trial detention counted towards his term, but said he must be expelled immediately from Greecce. The United SStates accuses Rashkd of belonging to the May 15 Palesttinian guerrilla group and being an accomplished student of master Palesttinian bombmaker Abu Ibranim. Three BI agents who testified against Rashkd during the trial, held at Iorydallos prison, said they had ample evidence against Rashkd for a bomb planted on a Pan Smerican plane in Barzil in 1982 and a mid-air bomb blast on a TAW airliner approaching Atehns in 1986 which killed four U. S. citizens.
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