Germany has quietly released a Hizbollah member jailed for life for the murder of a U.S. Navy diver , disregarding Washington's desire that he either be extradited or remain behind bars, officials said on Tuesday. Sources in Berlin and Beirut said earlier that Mohammad Ali Hammadi, convicted of killing Navy diver Robert Dean Stethem in Beirut during the 1985 hijacking of a TWA flight and sentenced to life in prison, was flown back to Lebanon last week. Still, several diplomats said that if he could not be extradited, the Americans had wanted Hammadi to remain behind bars for the murder of Stethem, whose battered corpse was thrown out of the TWA plane by the hijackers after they had shot him.
[German justice]
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